Softchoice Reviews

Pros

Ive worked at softchoice for over 3 years and made some of the best friends of my life. Lots of free events, trips, prizes promos, Easy to get promoted(been promoted 4 times since being here), dont listen to the negative reviews about salaries it is very easy to overachieve your targets and make more money then OTE says.

Cons

sometimes a little more freedom in TSD would be helpful!

Pros

Great people Good benefits Focus on work/life balance Lots of side perks

Cons

Lots of young people which can be a double-edged sword. Most think they are not compensated enough and find trivial things to complain about because they have no clue what it's like to work at other places. There is a definite lack of maturity on some teams and a general sense of entitlement. HR coddles them and turns non-concerns into things that seem huge, which reinforces this bad behaviour.

Advice to Management

Need to work on coaching managers and setting expectations. Getting a promotion once a year is not realistic and some of these kids have salary expectations that are completely unrealistic for their skillset and experience. Need to better link pay to performance. We're getting way too many layers of managers that just add to bureaucracy.

Pros

The pay and the culture

Cons

Discrepancy between what the company says it delivers and what it can actually deliver.

Pros

Great Work/Life balance Great people Tons of opportunity to move all around the company Lots of perks Solid benefits

Cons

Pay could be better President's Club format is not great Internal systems need improving (they are improving every day)

Pros

2 weeks of vacation RRSP $ to$ match dog friendly WFH day once a week

Cons

Some of the management doesnt know how to handle their teams,

Pros

a job basically. Some free food.

Cons

Softchoice is trating sales people as an expense to their investors. Your salary and commision (which is basically non existent after they absolutely screwed the structure) is a write off. Anyone who understands anything about how companies operate can understand this. They pay you 40k a year to market for them. Cheaper than any marketer they can find. You will only make a few thousand extra if you kiss... behinds and get some renewals. This is a lead generation and telemarketing role packaged as account management. Anyone who enjoys working here does so because they havent ever worked at a real sales role in the past. Its a joke lol. People are toxic and wouldnt last a week at a real company or start up but think they are the king of the castle for generaing a lead that was given to them and letting resources actually close the deal. Majority of this company's money comes from vendors that PAY to advertise to the sales people, NOT from actual sales of products. I was embarassed to work here with my past experience and left as soon as I could. They took all accounts that made any comission, marked them as too small and gave them to a 5 group team to manage with NO commission. If you cant see coruption in that, then there is no saving you. If you want to basically have no real tasks everyday, get drunk and party all day like you are still 16, this is the place for you. They took 5

Advice to Management

I wouldnt let these amateurs manage a lemonade stand. They are a joke.

Pros

Good for people don’t know how to do their job, especially if you could get the position like Kevin Puckett

Cons

VP level people knows nothing about this industry and business, abuse your employees will push away your customers.

Advice to Management

Invite knowledge people to join the company instead of big fat cat

Pros

It is a great company to work for and the culture (especially at the main offices) are amazing.

Cons

Currently owned by a private equity company who is focused on deriving profit which affects the company growth.