Terrible Work/Life Balance , Forced D&I - Reverse Discrimination, Senior Leadership Disconnected - Technology Lead TriNet Employee Review

2.0
Feb 2, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Base salaries are competitive. There is free coffee in the break-rooms.

Cons

SeniorLeadership is extremely removed from operations. Culture is largely HP and VMware, Dell ex-employees who hire and promote their buddies. Forced D&I causes results in more opportunities for women and minorities regardless of performance. Terrible Work/Life balance (Expect calls on vacation, holidays, extremely long hours). Performance reviews are irrelevant - your end of year comp is based on fixed allocations where only a couple receive top marks so supervisors meet "quotas". The technology resources are NEVER mentioned by senior leadership - those in sales and client facing teams are praised at all-hands meetings. The company slogan of people matter does not apply at all to internal resources - people are fired for cheaper offshore labor!

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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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