Inflated ego, culture and quotas will not sustain - Regional Sales Director Workiva Employee Review

2.0
Aug 26, 2022
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Pros

Mostly good people who are very collaborative and willing to help others succeed.

Cons

The culture isn't as strong as the claim and is continuing to suffer as the company is growing and changing processes to try to keep up with the big dogs. I have seen many good people get terminated without any substantial and documented reasons. It seems often to be the managers opinion, and supported by HR, that the employee is not doing things the "Workiva way", regardless of their success. Management will often come up with reasons to substantiate the termination that are baseless. I and many others know that we need to "watch our backs" and play the game as any one of us could be next. It is discouraged to be an independent thinker and step outside of the box. Additionally, the company expresses their strong DEI stance, but there are very few employees of color and minimal diversity. This is a highly white-dominated culture, even though they try to hire a Hispanic, black or Asian periodically to give the image of being diverse. The products are also very limited in their scope and capability. If they do not come up with ways to offer more, the company will quickly be surpassed and even become irrelevant by the larger companies like Oracle and Microsoft, who will continue to refine the current competitive products and dominate the landscape. The CEO is great, but once he leaves, which I can't imagine will be too far out, I can see this company quickly being gobbled up and spit out. The increase in revenue will soon taper off as companies are beginning to recognize the inflated prices for the minimal return. Many of the most successful reps will leave as their quotas continue to climb and achieving these gets more and more out of reach. Just like the housing market, the quota bubbles will burst and there will be a need to adjust to fix for this.

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Workiva Response
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This year, Workiva rose to the #20 spot on the Top 100 Best Workplaces list by Great Places to Work. Bottom line - it’s about progress not perfection, and we’re committed to our continued improvement to being a great employer. We’re proud of our culture. It’s driven by our company values of customer success, innovation, trust, integrity, inclusion, and accountability. These values are present in everything we do as a company - from how we take care of our employees to how we serve our customers and communities. Here is some of the feedback we received from employees via this year’s survey: 95% of employees responded positively to the statement: “Management is honest and ethical in its business practices.” 94% of employees responded positively to the statements: “Management trusts people to do a good job without watching over their shoulder” and “People here are given a lot of responsibility.” Additionally, Workiva employees said that our customers would rate the service we deliver as "excellent.” 93% said: Management is approachable, easy to talk with and competent at running the business. Your feedback is important to us. Please reach out to humanresources@workiva.com if you’d like to follow up further.

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