Softchoice Reviews

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No cons, I strongly recommend Softchoice to anyone seeking a solid company to work for. Its an overall great company that cares about its employees.

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If you're one of the lucky anointed ones, ie: your Aunt works in P&G (HR) or if you manage to finesse your Sales Manager so that you get given the golden goose egg accounts ,you'll do well as a TSR at Softchoice. UNFORTUNATELY that represents 1 out of 10 Reps. The rest of you suckers will be making 40k + as your salary, while getting skimpy commissions, while working 9 hours a day. Your targets will vary from Rep-to-Rep because they assign you a bunch of *mostly deadbeat accounts, and then apply a 20% year-over-year growth to that account, so you get a different target every month. This target is supposed to be aligned to you tier, but the system is highly flawed, and there is essentially no level of fairness. Softchoice's Managers can't even explain your commission structure to you. When you use their ICM (commission payout) tool, you don't see a breakdown detailing what you were paid per order. So you just have to BLINDLY trust their sneaky little system. You also only get paid on gross profit. You close big deals and make tiny commissions. It works out to being 1-2% off the net revenue on many occasions - sometimes even less! The majority of Softchioce's teams and Sales Reps DO NOT HIT PLAN. As a result of their low-ball salaries, working at Softchoice is a mess. It's a constant REVOLVING DOOR. Once you put in some time and see how awful their commission structure is, you leave and get a real tech sales job that pays $65k + elsewhere. Softchoice's ELT are mostly all Americans, and they operate as such. ELT is taking all of the profits home for themselves, while the workers that actually keep the company profitable get paid below the standard tech benchmark. EVERY ROLE AT SOFTCHOICE IS DRASTICALLY UNDERPAID by as much as 20-30%. It's not just sales that suffer from low salary pay, it's the ENTIRE COMPANY! Not a good place to work if you're trying to make a decent living in an expensive city like Toronto, Chicago, or Seattle. At their 2019 launch they ended the launch by boasting of raises being offered. Those raises were for an extra 2 or 3k to Junior TSR's. They stiffed all Senior TSR's and that's how they chose to end their annual 2019 launch. Thanks, Softchoice! How classless.

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> Structure makes it difficult to be agile
> Growth can be difficult for niche roles

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Nothing to share at the moment

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Still working to break out in US market but great future potential!

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No cons for me. I am loving it so far

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poor compensation, low base salary and complex compensation that makes it challenging to predict income - sell services for better comp.

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Honestly, trash management. Horrible salaries. No idea how to treat their employees. These people have a skewed perspective on how to handle their talent and will promote people based on random factors.

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Pay is quite low for Individual Contributors

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- The salary is low for the amount of work you do. (Salary should be around 50K in my opinion MINIMUM to start)
- Depending on your sales territory and it's exposure it may give you a setback in doing as well as your peers. (Ie. Canada V.S Some U.S territories)
- You only get commission after you hit 75% to your plan otherwise you get $0
- Commission strucutre complicated and nobody gets it
- The draw they give you for the 6-months of $625 needs to be paid back in sales
- The "promotion" structure is BS. You work very hard to get to a TSR Level 2 and you only get a $3,000 A YEAR increase and your quota goes through the roof. If you were once making decent commission, you get set-back by this promotion as it will take a while to ramp up again (unless you have inherited some great accounts)
- High turnover rate due to the competitive market - a lot of people at Softchoice leave for a better salary offer