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High School Dressed Up as a Start Up - Sales Gather Employee Review

1.0
Aug 18, 2019
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Pros

Very good benefits, dogs allowed at work, nice office space in Midtown, catered lunches

Cons

Culture: I have never worked somewhere with so much gossip, backstabbing, and general blaming of others with no accountability. It's fine to be a young professional, but you have to be just that -- professional. Managers shouldn't be gossiping, especially to the people that report directly to them. This caused a lot of favoritism and paranoia when I was there. Turnover: While turnover is common within entry-level positions, turnover here is across the board. Within 3 months while I was there, everyone on the sales team left. Managers change all the time, especially in sales. It's hard to ever make progress when you're being told different things constantly and when leadership changes so often. This year alone, they hired a new CFO and COO, both of whom left within a matter of months. Vision/direction: This company has no idea what it's doing long-term. It's understandable that things would change once Vista became involved, but most everything suffered as a result, including innovation. You can't survive without acknowledging what your competitors do better, when you can't appropriately scale/invest in your Product & Dev team, and when no one in C-level/upper management understands the very industry that the product is supposed to cater to.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Feb 26, 2018
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Pros

-Amazing benefits -Transparency from all levels of management -Professional growth budget each year to learn new skills/attend conferences -Very invested in their employees and maintaining retention -Fun events throughout the year to celebrate wins and just to show employee appreciation -Many opportunities to voice your opinion on strengths/weaknesses of the company which they use to make improvements. They are making great strides to listen to their employees and make changes based on feedback -Fun workplace -Very team oriented, everyone supports each other -Dog friendly! -Everyone seems to really enjoy coming to work every day and working hard to help do their part in meeting company goals

Cons

-Not a lot of "middle management" positions to grow into but they are working to change this! -Growing very quickly which has come with a need for growing the headcount. They are working diligently to hire great candidates but until that goal is reached there is a heavy workload in some departments -Very comprehensive hiring process which is great for the company (selective, well-placed candidates) but can be a con if you are expecting an easy hiring process!

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