Work/Life Balance isn’t real as a sales exec - Sales Executive Zillow Employee Review

2.0
Jan 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers are great and everyone is willing to help out. My manager is fantastic and always supports me. The benefits are also pretty good.

Cons

The sales rules are cut throat. If you miss more than 2 months of quota during a rolling 5 month period then you’re immediately fired, even during your ramp up as a new hire. There’s no real additional training/performance program to help you grow and get better. You’re constantly under the stress of wondering if you’re going to get fired each month. You only get 2 weeks of quota relief in a year, so if you take time off, then you better make sure you’re hitting quota otherwise you’re penalized. You’re also not allowed to work weekends to try to make up for the missed sales to hit quota, and they limit what times you can process sales. Zillow is spending a ton of money on a churn and burn sales force. Rather than training their existing sales execs, they replace them.

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