Terminated w/ out cause - beware - Sales Evergage Employee Review

This is Karl, CEO of Evergage. To the person who wrote this review, as I said to you personally when we spoke, I enjoyed getting to know you. I am sorry that it didn’t work out for you to continue at Evergage, and I am very sorry that the timing of when we let you go was just 2 weeks from your wife’s due date. As you know, the team learned of this fact as we were letting you go. While I’m sure it didn’t help much with the stress of having a baby while looking for a job, we did try to help a little by giving you additional severance and health care coverage. To those reading the review, we do have a performance plan that we will put people on if needed and when appropriate. This sales person was with Evergage for less than 6 months. During those months, I know much of our team came to appreciate this person’s humor and friendliness. However, as this person was exiting training/ramp-up (about 4 months) and beginning to try to sell, it was clear to me personally (from an onsite customer visit together) as well as to my sales management team that this person did not understand our product, market or customer, and was not someone who we would want in front of customers representing us. As these were deeper things that a performance plan wouldn’t address, we decided to part ways. In my opinion, if it is clear that someone will not thrive in a role, you are doing them as well as the company a disservice to pretend otherwise. I am sure there are sales situations in other companies where this person will thrive and I look forward to that happening.