Immediate Coaching/Training/Onboarding Improvement Needed - Customer Success World Book Employee Review

1.0
Oct 1, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Some good people in sales, training team, on Customer Success team -Salary bands implemented for higher-level accounts, making pay decent (limited commission info, however)

Cons

-Very poor coaching and growth experience (I'd say the worst I have had in my career, by far) - no time spent to shadow, coach or even learn and understand skills of employee, no development personal and professional goals, limited tracking of progress -Equally as poor training - about 3 days of training to learn very complex online educational databases, then we were expected to start calling and assisting customers - nearly no training on purchase process and renewal process -Poor onboarding experience and not setup for success -Lack of collaboration between teams - when asked for help, other employees are allowed to lash out on phone calls and in email. Extremely unprofessional and a general lack in any kind of communication between teams (between Customer Success and sales, customer service, marketing, billing/accounts, HR) -Almost nothing done to help connect teams and ensure any collaboration (for reference, the company is maybe 80-90 people and I met about 10 or so when I was introduced/'onboarded' with the team) -Limited information on commission pay-outs - you are expected to construct your own report, in order to determine commission (no number is tracked for this) -Stingy PTO policy - accruing only 10 days throughout the year to use -Culture of overwork - employees would mention how they were working away on things on the weekend and late nights and this was not met with any resistance from management

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5.0
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Pros

Wonderful collaborative atmosphere where everyone was extremely helpful to me when I was first at the company. My boss was so much like Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life" and utilized a laissez faire leadership style with was very effective.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Good people. Hybrid work schedule.

Cons

Low pay, when a coworker leaves, there is no replacement, that person's responsibilities get divided and spread out to the entire team. The President of the company, is quick to jump to unfounded rumors, scuttlebutt from "anonymous suggestion box" comments and conclusions as opposed to actual facts, and focused solely on dollars signs, his bonus and does not lead by example, despite being a former military officer. Moral has dropped at the company because management doesn't take the employees issues and concerns to heart and pay a decent livable wage.

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