An army of great DBAs... if you like being in the army - Team Leader Pythian Employee Review

2.0
Apr 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

great DBAs (maybe not the top 5%, but everyone's solid), good salary, solid commitment to learning and continuous training. very good business model (remote database admin by a top caliber team)

Cons

very hierarchical structure, with little possibility for advancement into management unless you are in "the club". marketing team and HR push a vision of pythian that is almost cult-like and comes off as very naive and fake. senior management team is incredibly closed off and clearly not comfortable interacting with regular workers. the environment will be familiar to anyone who's done military service.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Being a sales representative at Pythian has a lot of advantages.: - The leadership team is holistically (ie spanning GTM, delivery, everyone in-between) committed to helping the sales team succeed and bring in new business (everyone wins.) - Our technical resources and SMEs (we sell services here, and do partner heavily with our SMEs during presales) are the brightest in the business, spanning 40+ named data/cloud infra technologies (and many more in the overall braintrust). - Autonomy over your own business ie: if you are achieving your goals people will (mostly) give you leeway do what you need to do to continue selling successfully.

Cons

- Private equity backed organization, so it can feel like we are understaffed pretty frequently. This can slow sales cycles and create CSAT issues. Need to be ready to adapt. - The sales reps at Pythian who find success need to be comfortable being agile, we encounter new situations every day and opportunities/problems rarely fit into a box. Also need to be comfortable taking ownership over situations for the betterment of your customers, pipeline, etc. - Very minimal pipeline generation support.

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