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Blue Technologies

Is this your company?

You have to love cold calling and trying to sell a technology that no one cares about. - OUTSIDE SALES Blue Technologies Employee Review

2.0
Jan 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great bonus structure it seems if you are successful.

Cons

You have to use your own personal laptop and cell phone although they do give you a $50 phone credit. They actually have panty hose as part of the dress code and enforce it. There is a monthly Wednesday evening meeting for those in Cleveland and quarterly for Columbus office. You get 0 vacation or sick days your first year. You can take them unpaid but have to be there for a year to get reimbursed. After a year you only get 5 vacation days and 0 sick days. If you leave before I think it is 3 years you forfeit all 401k match. You have to do training for a month and have to pass a test. If you do not pass the test within a certain time frame then you are fired. The test is both written and oral. You have to memorize a dozen scripts and repeat them. You also have to memorize a 3 page Commitment to Excellence and repeat that verbatim to pass. The turnover rate is ridiculous. People are incredibly mean and rude when you are cold calling. You have to have very thick skin to want to go out every day and endure it. You also will have to spend a lot of time entering all cold call information from the day from the 30 expected cold calls. You are also selling a dying technology which you will be told over and over when you are out cold calling.

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5.0
Apr 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Loved worked here! Everyone was so great

Cons

Takes time to make commission

2.0
Apr 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The colleagues and team members at Blue Technologies are genuinely talented, hardworking, and collaborative. The people I worked alongside daily made the job worthwhile and were the primary reason I stayed as long as I did. There is a solid foundation of institutional knowledge among the staff, and the core copier business does provide some stability.

Cons

Leadership operates with a deeply entrenched, top-down mentality rooted in an outdated sales culture. Nepotism is prevalent at the executive level, which undermines meritocracy and morale across the organization. Compensation is below market rate with no meaningful bonus structure in place. The company has made a push into software and professional services but has fundamentally failed to understand that selling software requires an entirely different skill set, methodology, and sales culture than selling hardware. Sales staff are hired and managed as if they are selling copiers, and the results reflect that. Leadership's resistance to evolving beyond their comfort zone has created a ceiling on what this company can realistically achieve in its expansion efforts.

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