Nightmare on 33rd Street - Sales Pontera Employee Review

1.0
Feb 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong initial sales leadership and direction, lost its way after organizational changes over the last year. You can threaten to quit and get promoted.

Cons

We've gone from experienced sales managers to 'team leads' who only got promoted because they threatened to quit or demanded more money. One on ones feel like talking to someone checking their Instagram they're so busy with Slack they barely look up. And the quotas? They change them mid-quarter if they think the team will hit them. Pretty clear they don't want anyone hitting them. Sure, the job market is tough right now, and they know it using it as leverage to keep people in line. The saddest part? Our C-suite completely fumbled our head start in the market, but instead of owning it, they point fingers at sales. Would I work here again? Unfortunately not. The whole place has become weirdly anti-sales, more obsessed with finding ways not to pay OTE than actually growing revenue.

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5.0
Feb 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I like it, pay could be better

Cons

Pay is lower than market

1.0
May 30, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pretty good benefits, some genuinely great people, nice office.

Cons

The product itself is under developed and lacks the ability to meet modern standards, which causes the whole business to fail. The “solution” is rudimentary and for a problem that doesn’t really exist. The client base and management are truly just money hungry. Constant reorganization to attempt to recoup losses makes everything feel unstable. After layoffs in the winter, workload and “responsibility” increased without meaningful adjustments to roles and of course no adjustment to compensation. Management is lacking as most of them are disillusioned and fail to give reasonable and actionable feedback. Promotion has become pretty much impossible, even for “top performers”. For a company based in NYC, the lack of diversity is truly shocking and borderline disgraceful. Minorities are few and far between, and are mostly in the lowest paid positions. Everyone working there is uniquely miserable- when I left everyone who I spoke to was actively job searching or considering leaving. BTW- the positive reviews all left at once are certainly from management as they came just before massive layoffs. Do better.

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