Burn & Churn Sales Life - Sales AE Samsara Employee Review

2.0
Jan 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Product is well developed and much better than the competition - benefits are good - CEO is thoughtful and well-intentioned - strong investment in the company and board members - Experiencing crazy growth - relatively achievable quotas

Cons

- It's a call center for lack of a better term. - your sales activity is micro-managed by managers - managers are sticklers about arriving on time (by the second) so that they can get you promoted and then leave early and go play golf with each other - not great coaching or sales development in terms of training - no team-building events despite the companies massive success - it's a bro culture to the fullest and no diversity - OTE is way below market - they sell you on over attainment and raise quotas every single quarter - people can be subjectively PIPed. A rep on my team had never missed quota, but because his pipeline generation wasn't to their liking they PIPed him

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