Sadly and surprisingly toxic - Account Executive Block Employee Review

2.0
Aug 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are excellent, you get to work with lots of genuinely lovely people, and the product itself is very good.

Cons

The sales org is incredibly toxic. A lot of your experience there can depend on luck regarding who you get as your manager. Sadly there are a number of external hire management that don’t know the role and can’t help teach you, so you rely on overstressed teammates and mentors. The metrics are way too high and you’re expected to know a lot for the role in a short amount of time. Upper management seems lovely and savvy but are tone deaf to the struggles (or just don’t care) and continue to make the role harder. Training is very limited. Quantity, not quality, is what is important. It’s certainly more of a corporate environment than I ever expected. Oh, and you’re often too scared to take your “unlimited” time off.

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