Do Not Waste Your Time - Professional Sales Consultant TriNet Employee Review

1.0
Sep 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Flexible work hours -Fortune 500 Benefits TriNet pays 90% of Employee Only -Stock purchase plan

Cons

-Turn over is higher than any company I have ever been with. I've seen 3 people quit and 2 people fired at one office since the beginning of the year. Over a dozen more people company wide. That does not include the offices TriNet shut down and did not say one peep about to the remaining employees. People are leaving in droves, for good reason. -Management are worst micro-managers, even if you are above quota for the year. You will be checked in on every single day. Managers don't look at your calendar and they send countless emails for follow up and to request that you fill out multiple spreadsheets daily to track your activity. -The operations teams that work along side sales puts everything back on sales. Sales has to do everything (and figure it out themselves) although they are not trained on how to run payroll, taxes, implementation, ACA, the list goes on and on. -Implementing a client is a NIGHTMARE. Everything is done down to the last minute, and the Implementation Consultants and Managers are not held to any standard when they deliver poorly (at best). Multiple clients leave after less than 6 months at TriNet. This speaks volumes about how TriNet does not care about retaining their clients, only hitting their monthly, quarterly, and yearly numbers. -This is a company of smoke; change and improvement are promised and yet the only thing that changes is more pressure put on management and the sales consultants to hit their numbers. SOI is being run into the ground and no one seems to care. -DO NOT waste your time at this company. There is no work life balance, you will be micromanaged, and at the end of the day you won't be able to calculate your commission. TriNet does not care about paying it's employees for the work they do.

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TriNet Response
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We are saddened to hear of your negative experience, though we are grateful that you took the time to let us know your feelings. We have shared your comments with Sales and Operations management and we hope your situation improves. Please feel free to reach out to MYHR and/or your Human Resources Business Partner, Ron Rudolph.

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Highly political environment.   Highly commoditized product. A fair amount of favoritism.  The prospecting infrastructure is horrendous and limiting for even the best hunters. Splits are the devil and cause resentment amongst sales reps. If you're over 30 and looking to build a career here, would recommend you find a different PEO as there is a 90% turnover rate with first year reps and within 3 years most new hire classes are gone. About 10-20% of sales consultants find success, and the variance of new consultants who find success is in the low single digits.  TriNet isn't exactly well positioned in the market and hasn't been for a few years.   Bad blood with clients and prospects due to decisions made a few years ago for short term business gains. The executive directors and upper management come from a different time in the business.  They found success in a completely different way and completely different market that was more beneficial. They lead with a stick and that trickles down.

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