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3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(28 total reviews)
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Bernadette Nixon

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76% positive business outlook

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2.0
Aug 21, 2019

Unpleasant place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch friday A lot of good people Pay and benefits are decent

Cons

If you're considering taking a position at NetBrain and are looking to glassdoor for insight into the culture- decline the position. <br><br> There isn't one department that has a majority of happy people. The sales team, for example, is set up for failure by default- the CEO sets pricing strategy with hardly any research, then changes it at whim leaving the account reps to salvage the burned customer relationship. The accounts are constantly be shifted, and with such a lengthy sales process and changing strategy, its impossible to develop trust among clients. <br><br> The R&D/product team is entirely Mandarin speaking, meaning all documentation and all product strategy sessions are in chinese, and speaking with customers hardly ever happens. The product is designed by the CEO with little focus on customer (this is starting to change toward customer focus... perhaps it will stick this time). <br><br> Theres very little employee development here, aside from our sales enablement team who do a decent job with what they're given (constantly changing strategy and messaging). The CEO is also a misogynist, saying things during company-wide meetings like "men go to a good college to get a good job. Women go to a good college to get a good husband," with others following his lead.<br><br> The churn rate is very high, the people are miserable, employee growth and development are negligible. You dont want to work here. <br><br> PS: The recruitment team asks new hires to post positive reviews in the first week... so take those with a grain of salt.<br><br>

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NetBrain Technologies Response
6y
Thank you for providing this feedback and taking the time to write this review. We examine every review posted to this site and use the feedback to improve our culture, policies and procedures. We have been experiencing significant growth this year more than any previous year and with this growth trajectory comes challenges. We are transparent that there is much more work to be done on improving our best practices. The growth to our sales department being the most significant, has experienced the most change, however what has remained intact is our culture which we are most proud of. We will continue to monitor feedback closely and respond to changes to constantly improve our culture. Again, thank you for taking the time to write this review and provide feedback, we truly appreciate it.
1.0
Jul 1, 2019

Hugely unethical company - Please Stay Away

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free lunches on Friday, snacks are always stocked

Cons

This company will drag you through multiple stages of interviews - in-house, on-site and video interviews with a salary expectation in mind and at the end of it all, give you a salary based on what they feel you're worth which is often 10%-20% lower than what you expected. In addition, I was encouraged to lie to potential candidates and tell them things which aren't true and rush people to sign offer letters that day (even though the letter says 7 days or 3 days to consider), while threatening to rescind the offer that same day, or the next day. You'll notice that the language in the positive GlassDoor reviews isn't typically the way people would talk, that's because in my opinion they are written by the marketing dept. In addition, we were told to flag negative reviews and solicit/encourage new employees to write positive reviews. While I was working here, my manager as it turned out was actively interviewing others to see if they could find someone better for the job and lied about it when I confronted them multiple times. This company expects 100% obedience from its employees and doesn't want you to talk back/point out things that don't make sense. They have no sense of ethics and are willing and do lie regularly to manipulate employees and rule through fear. There were also a number of inconsistencies about the company from the beginning. For example, they cited 2,300+ clients and over $300 million in revenues but that number was frequently changed/quoted differently. I don't know what the truth is but do yourself a favor and stay away!

1.0
Feb 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There isn’t any pro to work in sales here.

Cons

Where to start?? The company just decided to cut between $50K-$75K pay from every sales rep. Along with cutting pay they decided to pull many accounts from each rep to lower the total accounts each rep has to make quota. The company has decided to change from perpetual license to term and charge 3X the cost for term license. There isn’t a presidents club because they view sales reps as peasants and as the CEO puts it we’re all failures if we don’t close an account in one year. There is zero growth potential as the company never promotes from within. The company is owned and operated by two people with zero sales experience who haven’t a clue as to how to build, run, and incentivize their sales staff. Every year things change and not for the better because the CEO is stubborn and unwilling to make changes that will only positively impact the company. He won’t allow channel sales. His new sales strategy is Blue Ocean selling?? This means we have no competition in his mind. He seems to forget about solarwinds, live action, extrahop because the difference is they are all real sales ORG’s. Unless you enjoy changes every 2-5 months I suggest you look elsewhere for a job. FYI- the 8 positive reviews since Jan 1st are fake news because no one in the company has been positive since then due to the dramatic changes that have been implemented.

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NetBrain Technologies Response
7y
Thank you for the time you took to write this review. Feedback such as this is valuable as we continue to make necessary improvements to our population and culture. The changes to our sales organization is a work in progress and will take a bit of time to adjust, however, we feel it is in the best nature for the business to make necessary improvements to compensation structures which, contrary to what you are stating is actually better for our employees compensation. Also, one thing to note, every single review on our profile is a genuine review and no review is considered fake both positive and negative. With every company with as much growth as we are experiencing, there are bumps in the road and we feel this is healthy and we are surpassing our goals and targets. Nevertheless, we appreciate your comments and value your advice and wish you the best of luck with your next role.
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