A pathetic and declining company - Sales Manager Exapro Employee Review

1.0
Jan 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Central location, some good colleagues.

Cons

What to say about a COO who complains about anonymous reviews but at the same time leaves his "unbiased" review about the company he invested in and even admits telling current employees to write good ones? Just look at them: either with one or five stars. The one star ones are written by employees and the others are faked by the management, who forces assistants facing their first working experience to give the best review possible with no negative points. This should give you an idea of how this "people" operate and how desperate they are. The problems start from the top: CEO is extremely incompetent and after making his other company fail in 2 years didn't change his style, which consists in surrounding himself with mentally weak people who never disagree with him, have neither dignity nor integrity to refuse his orders and to make them "management". They attract people with fake promises and give a description of the job and the salary which is totally different from the reality. Working environment is suffocating: if anyone expresses his own opinion about his market is immediately seen as a target by the "management", which is far more numerous than the employees. For this reason people start looking for a new job already during the probation period or, if they can't take it anymore, they pretend being on sick leave. The turnover is alarming, employees stay 5/6 months on average, so you will have more colleagues there than in any other working experience you had in the past. Inside the "management" the least professional are the hr, whose duty is to pretend being friendly, to spy employees and to create fake gossips about them; the menthor, who convinced himself he was promoted for merits and not because he gave up his dignity executing shamelessly every order, will pretend being your best friend in order to help you but will instead backstab you everytime. The result of years of ineptitude is that in 2018 revenues and sales decreased dramatically and company has lost a lot of money, warning that if situation won't improve in 2019 they will be forced to close the business. Because of the bad reputation many so called partners avoid paying the commission for their services and the company has not enough strenght to get the money back, so even if you are able to sell sometimes it won't be possible to get paid. "Management" always try to invent excuses to avoid paying commissions to employees and if they complaint will apply medieval and pathetic mobbing techniques to intimidate them. Without any doubt the worst and most unpleasant experience of my career.

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Exapro Response
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Thank you for this review full of lies and bitterness, it confirms the company will be better off without you. No regrets. Good luck to your next employers...

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4.0
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Pros

The company : - The office is very well located in Prague (zizkov is the best area for young people) - Welcoming and helpful team - The intern wage is adequate to the cost of life in Prague (enough to pay rent, food and beer) - Multicultural team, great way to learn from different cultures - Unlimited coffee The job : - Complete (almost) autonomy - True experience on the business level, work with different countries and thus a great way to learn about the business ways of different nationalities - Possibility to work in team for the language barrier (+9 different languages inside the company) - Possibility to earn good commissions on the job, which is quite motivating

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The company : - Office hot during the summer (the AC is Czech republic is not very common) The job : - Some KPIs hard to reach - Commissions not given if your deal is finished after your internship - Some markets are easier than others

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Pros

I've currently been working for about 10 years in the company, starting at the bottom and slowly made my way through management. We try to be as fair and honest as possible with everyone. I think the job we offer is a good opportunity for whoever is looking for a challenge in market development right after the studies. You can learn a lot regarding international sales processes, e-commerce and international communication. Most of all, you will have a lot of autonomy in your work and a lot of assistance from middle-management to help you be successul and comfortable in your work as fast as possible. On average, sales agents earn about 45.000-50.000 kc/month so don't be afraid of the starting salary which is just aimed to cover your basic needs. The objective for management really is to get you at 50.000 kc average incl. commissions and beyond as fast as possible.

Cons

Don't pay too much attention to the bad angry comments you can read on this page. They were 'courageously' and anonymously written by former employees who got fired because they never really understood that they were in an actual company and not in a holiday camp. You could easily make your own judgement after a first interview so if you are interested in any vacant position, the best is just to try it out and see for yourself.

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