Do not apply unless you’re young and it’s your first sales gig - District Manager ADP Employee Review

2.0
May 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great corporate sales training. A lot of benefits (it’s what we sell so this shouldn’t be surprising). Depending on which team you get on, can be a great team culture and an overall great experience. Can be a great first sales gig if you don’t have a family

Cons

Heavily CPA reliant for referrals. You will inherit a book of business of clients, banks, and CPA’s. Understand this: -your clients were sold by a past rep and likely receive calls weekly from inside sales -your banks are likely to not be very good or refer business that won’t close for months -your CPAs…. Understand this…there’s a reason you’re getting them. 1. A past rep quit due to not being successful. 2. A rep moved up within the company, kept their best firms, and left the non-referring firms 3. If a good rep quits, the Sales Executive isn’t going to risk giving a great CPA relationship to a new rep so that they can ruin it. So they give it to a more tenured rep Due to this, the ADM position is a revolving door Also, salaries are based on region and the Tampa region arguably has the lowest base pay in the country at $40k. If your goal is to make $80k (like what I was told EvErYoNe was making on my team) you have to sell around $350,000 in revenue, hit benchmarks, and have quality referrals. The average deal is around $2,000 so do the math. If your bank and CPA partners aren’t sending referrals, you’re screwed because convincing business owners to completely switch over their backend processes isn’t easy. If you have ANY work experience and don’t want to take a step backwards, don’t apply. Don’t be a 30 something year old applying to a churn and burn job surrounded by 20 year olds.

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ADP Response
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- Documentation is limited or rusted, and many operational processes lack clear runbooks or standardized procedures, making onboarding and troubleshooting more difficult than necessary. - If you're coming from a modern, fast-paced engineering environment, the organization may feel behind current industry practices and tooling. - Internal politics can sometimes outweigh technical merit or execution. - There are teams with very long-tenured employees where change and innovation can be difficult to drive. - Decision-making often involves multiple layers of approval, resulting in significant bureaucracy and slower execution. - Processes can move slowly, and collaboration is not always transparent across teams, leading to inefficiencies and occasional confusion around ownership. - In some areas, roles, responsibilities, and operational processes are not clearly defined, creating unnecessary chaos and inconsistent ways of working. - Engineering standards and best practices vary considerably between teams, making cross-team collaboration challenging. - Organizational change tends to happen slowly, which can be frustrating for employees who are focused on modernization, automation, and continuous improvement.

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ADP Response
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