Good for college graduates - Inside Account Executive SHI International Employee Review

2.0
Oct 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You can learn IT sales and possibly move into another role if you can survive for a year. There's a lot of free lunches and the work facilities are nice. There's also a lot of emphasis on rewarding the top performers and giving them credit for their success. They're fast growing and still have a lot of room to grow.

Cons

It's like working in a giant fraternity house. For some, that may be awesome, but it doesn't give you a good foundation for what work will be like outside of SHI in a more professional environment. Its really noisy on the floor when you're trying to make calls that sometimes customers can hear the yelling and music which is pretty unprofessional and disruptive when you're trying to put your best foot forward with a customer. If you say something about the noise you will be bullied by the people that like to make the noise. If you have an MBA or any other formal business training, run for the hills unless you can't find another job. Your talents will likely be wasted your first year making cold calls and working LONG hours doing mindless prospecting and sending blanket emails in hopes of making more than $35,000 per year. They're growing fast, but the supporting resources aren't growing at the same rate causing a lot of frustration for inexperienced sales reps. When resources fail, so does the rep and in turn SHI.

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5.0
Jul 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Manager is very hands-off and trusts you to get your work done as long as your metrics look good. Overall good work culture - good work/life balance. Low stress work which can be nice if you’re okay with, what’s for the most part, a fairly repetitive/uninspiring variety of work (I personally like this but realize it’s not for everyone). Very friendly co-workers. Plenty of chances to prove yourself & work your way up the ladder if that’s something you care about.

Cons

Heavy focus on questionable metrics, especially in this current era of measuring AI usage. Repetitive/uninspiring work that can start to feel boring if you’re wanting something more interesting

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, paid for career development trainings/certifications, and depending on your role, flexible hours

Cons

-Management/Senior Leadership teams are very disorganized and often change processes several times throughout the year, without consulting the teams that would be impacted -Tools are extremely outdated -What mattered to senior leadership was the velocity of closing projects, vs quality of delivery -Extremely valid criticism was often ignored -Very difficult to get promoted -SHI loves automating everything they can, so a lot of times, work ends up feeling very tedious and repetitive -Day to day work very often includes tedious process approvals from management, slowing down pace of work with no real feedback given during the approval process -Met a lot of people who were great, but met far more who are toxic -Everything feels escalated even if the “issue” is manageable -EXTREMELY micromanaged

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