MemoryBlue reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(980 total reviews)
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Aurelien Mottier

84% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

MemoryBlue has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 980 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MemoryBlue employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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980 reviews
1.0
May 25, 2019

STAY AWAY

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Pros

hmmm none nada zip zero

Cons

Awful work environment, very misleading throughout the interview process. Pay is horrendous. You can make more money at almost any other tech company in the DC area. Commission structure is awful in which they raise salary instead of actual commission to short you the amount of money you'd actually get. Constant disrespect and lying from management, success is highly dependent on being put on an easy client, plenty of great SDRs leave that are put in awful situations with no way to recoup, or being subjected to working twice as hard as everyone else until you burnout. Plenty of great SDRs leave that are put in awful situations with no way to recoup because the lack of communication and resources made available by the said client. Alot of MICROMANAGEMENT, no trust. No wfh policy. Outdated sales methodology focusing way too heavy on cold calling (100+) focus on quantity more than quality. Expectation to come to work even with roads covered with snow and the government shutdown or use a day off. Benefits are trash and have a small enrollment window so if you start in like April/May you cant register for healthcare until you have 90 days and there are only 2 enrollment windows (1 in January, 1 in June), meaning you have to wait till January for healthcare coverage. Beyond that the benefits are absolute skeletons of trash. If you hit your quota they will raise it and continue until it's unattainable. Also if you hit below your quota any month they will decrease your salary back whatever small increase they gave the month before. Don't drink the koolaid. Management there is useless pawns who really can't do much except make you feel like it's your fault if you're not achieving success because that's the culture there. Training is a joke, and I wouldn't trust any numbers from them from how much lying is normalized there. Have witnessed multiple times employees were terminated or threatened termination over absolute nonsense largely due to weak management/DM's. Ask their turnover rate and they'll spin it about how sales is a tough environment and it's a starter for alot of people yadayadayada but it's a quick look to how dysfunctional is, unless they lie about the numbers which I wouldn't be surprised. You also only work there for 15 months after and do not do a good job at all setting you up with a job after then like they brag they do and you have a much better chance getting a far better job in the area on your own. If you love yourself, don't work here.

2.0
Oct 2, 2017
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Pros

The only reason that this review is getting two stars instead of one is because of the training you will receive and the network of highly intelligent people you will meet during your tenure at mB. -If you are on a good client you will have the ability to hit quota fairly easily and make a decent amount of money -The two delivery managers during my tenure were absolutely fantastic managers. You could tell that they truly cared for the development of their team, and also went of their ways to make sure they build a relationship with employees on a personal level. -You have the ability to get ramped up in the fast growing tech sales industry, and you will get a grasp on how a top of the funnel sales cycle works -You will learn skills here that will make you successful in tech sales moving forward in your career. -Marc and Chris care about their employees and will take time to get to know them, when Chris was in our San Jose office he took time to take out every individual to a personal lunch and get to know us. This is something that is appreciated by us. -The people you will meet at mB will be life long friends. You will grow your network and learn various technologies from various clients in high tech. The biggest take away for me in this position was the people I met, and the people I will continue to meet through the mB network.

Cons

Our Managing Director during my tenure in the San Jose office was by far the worst manager I have ever had in my sales career -The original compensation plan was not geared to motivating mB employees to want to succeed in sales. -The original $3,000 signing bonus you will receive is not a bonus for you, but a security blanket for memoryBlue to keep employees. When I left the company management only seemed concerned about receiving the money back and nothing else. -Every employee must stick to the same process regardless of their client, which most of the time is not efficient. -Some employee's quotas are based on 100% inbound leads and these individuals always hit quota, while most SDR's who are full outbound do NOT hit quota and will not be able to make money at this company.

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MemoryBlue Response
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Thank you for posting your anonymous feedback in this forum. As you point out, memoryBlue is set up to help every single employee launch a lucrative sales career. We ramp our hires fast and provide an outstanding array of training methods and techniques that arm sales people like you with skills and knowledge you will draw upon forever. Those real skills have very real, very high value in the corporate world. The industry access and network we instantly unlock for budding sales pros that come work for us is also a huge benefit to our employees. In particular, our Silicon Valley office has exploded this year in terms of employees being hired out by clients – a truly great benefit of working here. With respect to the $3,000 signing bonus that was in effect when you joined the firm (which is no longer part of our business), it functioned the same way any similar bonus or advanced payment (relocation fee, etc) works at virtually any other business. Advanced payments are typically designed to reward and incentivize employees, but they always have some measure of rules and expected length of tenure around them. As you were made aware when joining memoryBlue, every person we bring in to memoryBlue gets a large investment from us. Between the bonus (in your case), your comprehensive sales training, your wide array of client access, your manager’s coaching, your network building and much more, we are proud of that significant investment which carries big value for employees. That you’re seemingly upset about such an investment having a very small set of rules around it is incredibly disappointing. As for comp plans, manager hearsay, unfounded personal allegations, and common complaints about sales clients not being equal, we’ve addressed those items in prior responses here. If you have one or more that you’d like to discuss personally, the CoFounders’ doors are always open and either/both would gladly hop on a call at any point to go into more detail with you. We do wish you success in your future sales career endeavors and we’re at least encouraged that you took away many positive things from your time at our company.
1.0
Feb 6, 2024

Bad and only getting worse, ignore the fake reviews

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Used to be the best place for hustlers to work. Now, it’s a joke. This place is kept alive by the last five people with a conscience and delivery managers who are working four jobs at once with minimal training but have a lot of heart (which is largely taken advantage of). I will say, in the Delivery Manager and SDR role, you will make a lot of money if you work extremely hard and take on the most work but, at what cost?

Cons

You know that feeling when you’re in a bad dream, know you’re dreaming, yet can’t seem to wake up? That is what working at memoryBlue is like. If you are ready to get brainwashed and gaslighted into thinking this is the best sales job on the market, told that no other company has as many connections as you, and lied to that there’s no training opportunities outside of their four walls, then this is the place for you. If that sounds like your worst nightmare, keep reading for more. This place used to be a beacon of opportunity for those who worked hard and produced results. Now, it has become a laughing stock in the tech industry due to poor upper management, and poor hiring as a result of a hiring spree that occurred. Managers were forced to make awful hiring decisions due to angry clients not getting work in time; managers at the time could no longer take on that work, which led to unseasoned and underqualified SDRs getting promoted to an extremely taxing position. This ultimately led to a weakened and diluted reputation of mB which is only getting worse with time. Once investors got involved, it was truly game over and upper management has zero control over business decisions. Ever since a former colleague left a one-star review (with stats and evidence) on November 6th, memoryBlue's glassdoor page has been littered with inflated 5-star reviews that are either fake, begged for, or left by people who have been absolutely brainwashed. Kind of suspect that all recent reviews are 5 stars. I used to absolutely be in love with my work at memoryBlue but still wouldn't have rated it above a 4 on a good day... just food for thought! If you are an SDR, opportunities outside of memoryBlue are: another SDR gig with potentially zero promised growth paths, ISR, or AE if you absolutely knock your number out of the park and get lucky. If you're an AE, there's a pretty good chance you could land another AE role but you'll get pushback for not having any SaaS selling experience. If you are a DM, you better hit the jackpot or you're out starting at an SDR role again. Not that there's anything wrong with that if you're getting into a tech that you're interested in, although memoryBlue will use you as an example for a "failure." Along with the DM role or in any other leadership position, you will have to work 10x your competition since your experience barely translates to one role and memoryBlue will not help you in your search. memoryBlue has been calling former employees and asking for POSITIVE, not honest, reviews on Glassdoor due to the negative and true feedback they have received. Not only is this unethical, but it shows that they aren’t committed to solving their problems, only blanketing them to win candidates who will inevitably quit once the curtain falls. I used to genuinely think that the negative reviews on here were only from bitter ex-employees who left on bad terms and have nothing better to do (because that’s what we were brainwashed to believe). Now, I am taking time out of my busy day to warn those of you who are considering working here. If you are a former employee, please speak up as well with your HONEST experience. This cannot continue to happen for the sake of their current employees who, despite the clear issues, stick around for a “better mB” or in hopes of it becoming “the good ole days” again. If you’re currently at mB and feel like you’re stuck in a bad dream and can’t wake up, I urge you to reach out for help and jump ship before it takes you down with it and self-implodes. Good jobs ARE out there for you, best of luck! PS. They fired the only person with a backbone and a brain in upper management right before she was supposed to come back from maternity leave.

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