Come work for DealerRater if you want no work life balance! - Sales DealerRater Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Pros – Free on-site gym membership, catered lunches on Monday & benefits from day one.

Cons

Come work for DealerRater! We are hiring anything with a pulse and telemarketing experience for our Sales team. We don’t mind if you don’t have automotive industry experience, or related online advertising/digital marketing experience, we will train you! Although our training is mundane and outdated, and performed by a manager who has never sold the product, we will train you to sell our online reputation product. For our Client Services and Customer Service teams, if you brown nose certain managers and go out for weekly drinks, you will surely receive a promotion within months of being hired! We are inconsistent in our policies and pricing, and if you make 40+ calls per day you will be a super star regardless if you hit quota! Forget about prospecting your territory before calling into clients, its more important to make large quantities of calls versus quality calls according to our metrics plan. We've designed our compensation plan to include an unrealistic quota, below industry average base salary plus monthly commissions. This is not your everyday sales job; you will be expected to work more than 50 hours per week, put in the time on nights and weekends, even holidays. If you enjoy being micromanaged extensively, this is the place for you!

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5.0
Jan 16, 2024
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Pros

The manager has a clear focus of the team's direction without micromanaging. Very easy to work for. The engineering team is great to work with and very competent.

Cons

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4.0
Apr 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The VP of Technology is among the best supervisors I've ever had. His door is (actually) almost always open to talk about things. Suggestions for improvement are heard and often given the green light if you can back up your suggestions with a plan or proof. There's a solid hiring process to make sure we have great people on our team. Agile development process. Sprint retrospectives (2 weeks). Regular planning and estimation meetings (so you're not stuck in a single massive meeting every week or two) Bonus structure for devs is good. Passes all but 2 (#8 and #12) of the "Joel On Software Test" questions. The personalities on the dev and product development teams are great, it's a wonderfully positive working environment. Weekly "town hall" style meetings let everyone know how we're doing and where things are headed. The Waltham area offers plenty of options for lunch/dining. This includes Moody or Main Street. If you're like myself, and you like stepping out of the office for lunch.

Cons

You accept certain cons as a dev when you join a small company. One of them is the lack of vertical advancement. Fortunately that's offset by the ability to expand your skill set with other newer technologies. The dev area is located right next to the kitchen (speaking of Joel question #8 above).

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DealerRater Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on your experience here at DealerRater. It's great to hear your stellar recommendation for our VP of IT. We are very lucky to have him here on our team! The Dev Team has put together an excellent hiring process and works very well together. I do agree we have a noise issue and I am eager for the restack process to get underway and hope that the new set up for the "fishbowl" area will improve. I enjoyed reading "Joel on Software Test" and think number 12 would be very interesting to try out as well. Thank you again for taking the time to share your feedback and keep up the great work!
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