DialogTech Reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(105 total reviews)

Doug Kofoid

87% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

DialogTech has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 105 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The DialogTech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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105 reviews
3.0
Jun 17, 2016

This place is a "starter company"

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you're fresh out of college, looking to get into the SaaS/martech industry, or eventually want to work at one of the larger SaaS companies located in Chicago this is a decent place to begin. You'll make the type of friends here that you'll want to hang out with after work some of the time. They're always willing to try the latest sales tool. Additionally, you'll learn how to think quickly on your feet when your customers contact you because of the consistent service disruptions that happen frequently. You won't be fired due to incompetence, ineptitude, or complete disregard for ethics.

Cons

They don't let people go due to incompetence, ineptitude, and at times a complete disregard for ethics. It's widely known that the code base the products are built on is inferior. Commonly referred to as a "house of cards", "dumpster fire", and "hot garbage" by staff it's a root cause of many of the problems the products experience, particularly the flagships products LeadFlow and SourceTrak. These problems are exacerbated when a code push happens because it's never properly Q&A'd and results in the frequent service disruptions I mentioned above. As a result of this the company's core values should be narrowed down to "We'll do what's right for our investors". They only let certain sales people sell their LeadFlow product so if during an interview you ask, "How many of your sales reps are making quota?" you'll get a skewed answer because very few hit quota. During onboarding you will not receive sufficient training and ongoing training doesn't happen either. Competition continues to innovate at a higher rate and puts out more stable products resulting in greater market share.

3.0
Feb 15, 2017

Too old to be a startup, too new to have stable growth

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Salaries are competitive if you're managing existing accounts (not Sales), and if you land a good portfolio, there's quarterly travel involved for on-site meet and greets. - Downtown location is convenient with lots of food access near Willis Tower. Office is in an old building that's been refurbished to look more modern startup, free snacks and drinks in the kitchen, ping-pong table, video games, and frequently free lunches. - The building boasts lots of free events for their lessees, like happy hours, lunches, and stylists.

Cons

- There is no onboarding training program, and senior management consistently claims this is to encourage hiring "self starters" and "entrepreneurial spirits", in reality this sets far too many people up for failure because there's no natural learning process to understand SourceTrak and LeadFlow. If you're afraid of investing time and money to train your employees, that's a fundamental problem. - Your incentive bonuses are based on the strength of your portfolio, so it's a 50/50 chance you'll land some accounts that are happy to renew expensive contracts, or you'll be scraping bottom of the barrel for small businesses to pay for overpriced service fees. They fired the top account earners middle of 2016 because they were making 6-figure salaries, and turnover rate in the sales department is abysmal. Management will also keep most large (and profitable) accounts to themselves, it boosts their incentive bonus pay, and seems they don't trust their direct reports with them. - Senior leadership and HR instituted a personal and professional growth tracking program, but middle management thinks it's absolute bogus and doesn't bother to speak to their employees about where they'd like to see themselves in the future, or their career goals. So you're getting 2 hour seminars about self improvement that your bosses don't even buy into. - Unlimited PTO should really read "PTO limited by what your direct management considers appropriate to take off for your role and workload." Everyone (and I mean everyone) is uncomfortable taking time off because it's a topic that's brought up as a slight against you in annual and semi-annual reviews. - Very cliquey culture, the typical high school group mentality among almost every department, you've really got to go out of your way to make any connections.

3.0
Jan 25, 2016
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Pros

Fun work environment and lots of opportunities to take initiative and suggest ideas. The "work hard, play hard" mentality is real, and if you like to be challenged, this can be a great place (even if some managers are resistant to change.)

Cons

DT has a diversity problem. As a white guy, this probably isn't something most people would assume I'm concerned with. But the tech industry is diversifying (or at least trying) and I don't see DT making any real strides in that department. So while there are career opportunities for some people (people like me)...it really seems like there aren't for others.

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