Awful experience for those on the business side - Sales Canonical Employee Review

1.0
Feb 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Ability to work from home - (Mostly) knowledgeable, high quality colleagues who you'll want to stay in touch with - Frequent Travel opportunities - Good basic salaries - Nice London location - Interesting tech brand

Cons

- A dysfunctional empire (mis)managed into non profit by its founder - Poor quality senior management team who have achieved nothing of note either inside or outside the company - Constructed on a "business" model that will never deliver profit, if the founder gets bored - watch out! - Appallingly bad morale in sales, marketing, bus dev departments - the tech team seems to have a slightly better time - Huge staff turnover - the worst I have seen anywhere! - Lacks any sort of meaningful direction aside from pet projects of founder and his desire to reinvent the wheel - Huge waste in terms of costs and resources - many work out its impossible to achieve anything here and find a place to hide long enough so they can get a new role somewhere else asap! - No training or induction to speak of - expect, however, to be tossed in depth technical questions at company gatherings by an irate founder and pulled to pieces when you are unable to answer to his satisfaction.

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5.0
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Business Outlook

Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 23, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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