Zones Reviews

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I do not have anything at this time to share as a downside. I enjoy working at Zones, with my team, and the leadership team above me.

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Every quarter sales methodology shifts. No one makes unrealistic quotas or unattainable quotas based on disorganized sales force.

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I can’t say it’s a bad company and I can’t say it’s a good company. They’re just..meh. They live in an industry that is so highly competitive that they’re never going to make ridiculous margins. They’re cheap, but they’re cheap because they have to be in order to stay competitive. No one really knows who they are, they’ve morphed so much over the past few years, so even though they’re a 2 billion dollar company, they never really seemed to have a ton of street cred in the VAR market place compared to CDW. Pay is incredibly low compared to other industries and even other companies within their own area. They pay account execs 35K with a 15K “guarantee”. 50K in downtown portland just isn’t good enough and they will have a high attrition rate if they keep up.
There is a ton of overhead, they could probably service their existing accounts with 25% fewer employees. They have too many processes and their adoption of CRM has been slow as no one forecasts accurately or accurately tracks their opportunities. As a manager, you have no power to discipline employees who refuse to comply because they just go complain to HR if you are even the slightest negative. Guess what people, this is the real world, you can’t be positive 100 percent of the time. I could go on and on, but at the end of the day, the pay is too low, they have too many employees, too many processes and there is just so much red tape it’s difficult to do your job. Margins are so low that in order to exceed your ‘guarantee” you have to do at least 150000 in margin.

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If you are a new rep it's difficult to get resources as they are all dedicated to the lifelong employees.

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Not a "fun" place to work. Very traditional

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no job security, low pay, management top heavy, lies and lack of benefits. this used to be a great place with opportunity, now after many jobs lost to india, then they fired all of them, moved another huge batch to Pakistan its only a matter of time till all US jobs get moved to other countries. A technology company that doesn't embrace technology, micro management from managers that don't understand the system and continually make poor choices on tools to be competitive and do our jobs. They changed sick pay and vacation without telling us, leaving many with dollars lost, They are horrible on communication.

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The amount of stress they put on you was not not worth being overworked underpaid

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Not enough office growth. Lack of culture.

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Pay is low and commission is poorly calculated

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Completely incompetent and ignorant leadership and employees.

Incompetences rules all
Copywriter (Former Employee) – Renton, WA – August 31, 2018
I was the only copywriter who knew anything about computers and yet I got paid less than the one who wrote “630GB of raw processing power”; GB is a unit of storage space, servers do not need immense processing power, and the performance of a CPU, the brain of the computer, is measured in GHz (non-super computers, that is).

Also the managers similarly had no computer knowledge because they approved that headline; got rid of the practice of adding keywords to each product, making them all but invisible to the database and therefore to both salespeople and customers; promoted their fellow ex-jocks even though they were unqualified; and refused to do their jobs.

Zones management kept creating unnecessary vp and director positions while ignoring important duties like database management and training ignorant employees. I actually tried to initiate training sessions to resolve the lack of basic computer knowledge and to reinstitute keywords but was ignored and eventually got fired for trying correct a mistake that was costing the company thousands of dollars per month.

That this company breaks even is because they bought a profitable company and includes its revenue as part of Zones’ total income, not from adequate management and business practices.