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    Zones Reviews

    Updated June 23, 2017
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    Firoz Lalji
    90 Ratings

    412 Employee Reviews

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    Pros

    • Best work/life balance of any tech company I have worked for, off the majority of nights and weekends (in 18 reviews)

    • free food, lots of free partner swag, team environment, polite people, you get what you put into it (in 30 reviews)

    Cons

    • Upper management is not in touch with the individual contributors (in 27 reviews)

    • Low pay with bad commission structure (in 13 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      "Growing!"

      Star Star Star Star Star
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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      People are great and my immediate team is hardworking
      Great company and customer events that are world class
      Autonomy to do my job
      Lots of investment in training
      Great work space
      Internal Career opportunities

      Cons

      Growing pains
      More starts and stops on projects or initiatives than I would like

      Advice to Management

      Give your leadership the autonomy to lead
      Continue to invest in people and training
      Continue to work to make improvements to our workplace

    2. Helpful (1)

      "Just Ok"

      Star Star Star Star Star
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      Former Employee - Account Executive in Portland, OR
      Former Employee - Account Executive in Portland, OR
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Zones full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great people. Lots of training.

      Cons

      Low pay. The pay is the main problem.

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    3. "dev lead"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Auburn, WA
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Auburn, WA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Nice and friendly people, free food at end of quarter

      Cons

      No growth especially technology person, IT consider as secondary

    4. Helpful (3)

      "High Employee Turnover Rate"

      Star Star Star Star Star
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      Former Employee - Inside Sales Representative in Auburn, WA
      Former Employee - Inside Sales Representative in Auburn, WA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Zones full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Good for someone starting out in sales to learn aspects of being an inside salesman.

      They don't pay much, so it will be easy to move on once you have some experience under your belt.

      Cons

      Their sales tactics make it difficult to succeed in a competitive market.

      Training program is basic and ineffective.

      Management is disconnected.

      Advice to Management

      Pay more, better training, more competitive pricing.

    5. "Good company to work for"

      Star Star Star Star Star
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      Current Employee - IT Field Engineer in Cerritos, CA
      Current Employee - IT Field Engineer in Cerritos, CA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time

      Pros

      Benefits are decent.
      Paid vacation and holidays.
      I liked the management that I worked for.

      Cons

      Pay was low!
      At the beginning of the contract it was chaos. They're a bigger company and already had some involvement with the client. I would have thought the transition would have been smother.

      Advice to Management

      They weren't even paying at market rate in So.Cal

    6. Helpful (3)

      "Client Account Manager III"

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      Current Employee - Client Account Manager in Auburn, WA
      Current Employee - Client Account Manager in Auburn, WA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good place to start your career and learn.
      Weekends off and holidays.
      Not much micro management, freedom to make decisions.

      Cons

      Culture is lacking moral due to poor pay and terrible commissions structure.
      Upper Management out of touch with employees.
      Overall revenue and margin increase year to year but pay doesn't reflect this change.

      Advice to Management

      If you value your employee's, pay them what they deserve. In return you'll be able to have valuable employee's that will work hard for you. Rather than the current mass exodus to better companies that pay and make employee's feel valued.

    7. Helpful (1)

      "You wont be happy at Zones"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Auburn, WA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Auburn, WA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Zones full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      You'll meet some great people and enjoy and occasional free lunch or event.

      Cons

      Constant pressure coming from upper management is a scare tactic and threat that leaves employees feeling trapped and scared to do their job with fear of making mistakes. Sales strategy constantly changes and expectations are never clearly defined so you have no idea your goals. Compensation structure for sales is always changing which drives each department in different ways and never working together. Extremely high turnover and unhappy people. People are overworked and very underpaid. Company culture is awful.

      Advice to Management

      Stop changing the strategy before you evaluate if its successful. Make your employees feel important and valued. Hire staff accordingly and allow a work life balance before employees burn out from stress and being overworked.

    8. Helpful (1)

      "Senior Government/Education Account Executive"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Auburn, WA
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Auburn, WA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      My boss doesn't micromanage me.

      Cons

      Unreasonable revenue/margin goals. Low base wage.

    9. Helpful (4)

      "RUN from this company! Worse professional experience of my career. If you are considering coming to Zones, don't!"

      Star Star Star Star Star
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      Current Employee - Enterprise Account Executive in Dallas, TX
      Current Employee - Enterprise Account Executive in Dallas, TX
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good insurance package, but dental coverage is minimal. Good overall training if you put forth the effort. Good working relationship with top OEM's.

      Cons

      Made a HUGE mistake by coming to Zones and I will always view it this way. No matter what I do, or amount I sell, it will never be good enough. I'm watching my peers self-worth depreciate quickly. This company will suck the life out of you.

      Advice to Management

      Give your sales people better upper mgmt to remove the red tape for. Actually help them, not throw it back to them to fend for themselves. Approvals for pricing discounts need to be quicker, we lost the business. "Management" is non-existent except for forecast demands.

    10. Helpful (6)

      "Great People / Not so Great Everything Else"

      Star Star Star Star Star
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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Account Manager in Auburn, WA
      Current Employee - Account Manager in Auburn, WA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Zones full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      The people at Zones are amazing! Friendly, happy to help, and genuinely nice. They have competent people in supporting roles, most all of which will respond to requests for resources quickly.

      Cons

      Their compensation plan and insurance is probably the worst I have ever seen. Up until Jan 1 2017, their compensation plan mirrored most of their competitors and partners. Starting this new year, that changed. Pay checks were slashed for most in sales and there has been a mass exodus of sales folks.

      Advice to Management

      The compensation changes have disrupted the lives of many employees. Either you didn't know better or you just wanted to thin the herd without paying out benefits. I'm not sure which is worse. Change this, before it is too late.

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