Customer Success Manager - Customer Success Manager AppFolio Employee Review

2.0
Nov 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly environment, dogs allowed free snacks, PTO is accrued easily, colleagues are helpful, managers are friendly and nice.

Cons

The training needs to be better. Sitting in a lecture styled setting is not the best way to learn a software system. Some people learn easier through shadowing. Training felt a lot like school in the sense that they quiz and grade you. However, when you need assistance a lot of the times they expect you to figure it out on your own. The workload is very intense and it’s sometimes difficult to get help because coworkers are also busy. There is a lot of turn over, and few senior members on each team to help assist all of the new members at a time. As I mentioned above most people are willing to help, however, there are some colleagues who are not so willing and actually put you down when you don’t know something that they think you should know by now. Some of the clients are grateful and kind, but a majority of them do not care about their morality and are ok with making the customer success manager feel less than for not being able to help them instantaneously.

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AppFolio Response
7y
We do hold our team to high expectations and learning software is an important part of the role. Sounds like you found that this opportunity wasn't the right match for you and we wish you the best in finding your next opportunity.

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Thank you for sharing your feedback. It’s great to hear that you enjoyed our culture and team outings. We take your comments seriously – especially regarding the need for proactive management support, better coaching, and clearer advancement opportunities for our BDR and AE teams – and we are actively working to address these areas to ensure our reps feel supported and set up for long-term success. Thank you again for helping us improve, and we wish you the very best.
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