Volusion Employee Reviews about "food"

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On the sales side, it's just a sweat shop style sales team. You'll have goals that are way too high because the wrong people are in charge of setting goals and have no idea what's going on. Your pay is really bad, and your only way to get a decent commission check is to work way to much (or be a little sketchy, which people are). You don't get any actual sales training, which actually doesn't matter much...this is really just an order taking team. There's a ton of other issues, everything constantly changes in how they want you to work, the software is really outdated and the company has spent all of their time and money into the Mozu platform...leaving the Volusion sofware way behind the competitors. You're also going to have to get really lucky because 75% of your leads are unqualified. Meanwhile you get hounded if any part of your call numbers are low. Calling the same person every day for 2 weeks just really gets old, for you and the person you're bothering....and if you don't badger them, they'll take the lead away from you. The Support team is terrible and will only help you lose sales or cause cancellations that will count against your numbers. When I started, a rep that soon left told me that working for Volusion made him a very negative person, and when I left...I definitely agree. It's a very frustrating place to work and you get very little out of it. No opportunity to work from home and very little room to move up. The positions they make you think are promotions are just similar sales roles on different teams. Your opinion matters very little here and you will not get recognized often if at all. Maybe not a bad job for a kid out of college that doesn't care about a career or making a lot of money, but would not recommend it to anyone else.

Cons

The overall morale of the company was low, poor compensation (compared to industry standards), little to no advancement opportunity, the company was non-transparent, and management was lacking in many areas.

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There is always something to complain about, right? But, I cannot think of any deal breakers. It's a good size company and I can speak for my experience thus far, which has been overall positive.

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Well where should I start? I worked for Volusion for three years and only moved up a dollar in pay while yet consistently being a top performer. Like others said here there is no incentives/pay raises (EVER) and the management is a joke. This place tries to have fun and play office games and ride scooters all over the place and emulate what I would imagine what a Google office would look like, yet they are NOWHERE near where Google is. I am absolutely certain that when real companies like Google were in the beginning phases they were getting at it and busting their butts, not running around on scooters and rolling pigs around. I remember a conversation I had with a member of upper level management about the fact that I was continually passed over for raises/promotions when I was consistently one of the top performers, and discussing how that there was really no incentive for me to excel there and if it would be acceptable to just perform at the same level as the others there since they made the same amount as I did and I was clearly not going anywhere. His response was "well when you came to work here you agreed to give your 100% and if your numbers went down we would have to talk to you about your performance." Essentially saying that I would be punished for not covering everyone elses workload while they surfed facebook and barely met the minimum daily requirements for contacts. Oh and in that same conversation I was told one of the reasons I was passed up for promotion was because I was not "social enough" and that I didn't participate in enough of the office activities. Well the issue with that is that at that time they actually had a contest going based on contacts and taking time off of the computers while doing literally the ONLY thing that may get me any kind of extra money out of this place was really not a smart thing to do in my book.

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I really can't think of any cons that have to do with the culture or people that work there. However, I do feel that internally hired position can some times pay under the market rate.

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SMB clients tend to be tech challenged Structure to dept can mean fewer chances to grow Company focus on new software is slow going Lots of writing can get redundant or dry Clients can be short-sighted and impatient

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Career advancement opportunities within the organization can somewhat be limited. Competition has become quite fierce and competitors are catching up lately; the organization has been slow to innovate which caused some old clients to leave our platform.

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I'm hard pressed to name any cons, to be honest. I've been with Volusion for over 7 years and have been privileged to have a fulfilling career full of creativity, challenges and personal as well as professional growth.

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As everyone else said... the pay is not up to the industry standards in general. Location is not the greatest either as it is right in the middle of an industrial district in a pretty boring area of town. The software is a little outdated and rarely gets updated which leaves you to suffer the complaints. Tech support in general is just kind of lame but I can hardly blame them for that...