Pitney Bowes reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,825 total reviews)
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Kurt Wolf

63% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Pitney Bowes has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,825 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pitney Bowes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
5.0
Jan 16, 2009
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Pros

Pitney Bowes is the best place to work as it rewards you beyond your wildest expectations. You can pay for big things in your life with just one months salary e.g. wedding, buying a house. It is a place where you can clear your debt very quickly. You need to have drive, ambition, enthusiasm and charisma. If you don't want the money don't work here! It rewards you when you exceed and throw more at you if you over exceed. Other than the money, the career development is amazing, if you want to progress you can, everyone that joined when I joined has progressed, as have I. The training is phenominal and worldly renowned. Any employer is likely to take you after you have worked at Pitney Bowes due to the training. People on here that have given negative opinions of working here probably aren't very good. I don't see the top sales person on here complaining about his £180k salary...

Cons

Jeeeeess.... Technology!!! It's like they think I know I'll try this!! Completely balls it up and then have to re-think, wasting thousands of pounds. It's so irritating. We need a database like Salesforce.com, it would resolve every problem. But they need to trial it properly, if anyone is reading this that sells salesforce.com please dear god sell it to them. The Redhill, Surrey office is shocking, they gave everyone a laptop and hadn't thought about the infrastructure down there, so everyone has to scrabble around looking for power points and network sockets, it's a complete joke!!! It needs a complete refurbish!! Marketing!! When they decide to give us our new accounts previously, they would not print them in post code order, it took each individual sales person 1-2 days to sort their cards out! Bearing in mind on average each team should be doing £10k per day! We wasted at least £100k by this small oversight!!! Although there are negatives, a lot has been changed and is already causing an incredible benefit to us.. SO I hope to see more!!!

2.0
Jan 10, 2009
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Pros

People in your sphere tend to be OK, Health benefits were good. Education is supported.

Cons

In 35+ years of working for PB I saw a lot of mismanagement at local and corporate levels. They tend to support the old line way of doing things regardless, this was very apparent along with an arrogant management approach to the workers. PB excels at holding the carrot in front of your face and inconsistency in performance reviews. Who you know is more important than ability and a party mentality will take you far. Corporate management promises and decisions concerning field operations are broken or ill thought out and require still more changes later on. Corporate management doesn't like to own any decisions and tend to be vague on just about any topic.

2.0
Jan 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

There are two positives to working for Pitney Bowes. One is the benefits are above average and two Pitney Bowes offers young people the opportunity to gain some sales training and experience to help them secure a better position after a couple of years.

Cons

The major downside to PB is that they are about to become a dinosaur. Technology has made many of their products obsloete and they have been slow to move into this century. They finally realize that the postage meter is a dying breed but may be too late in expanding their line of solutions to be a reasonable business partner in today's business climate. If you are an experienced sales professional the base salaries are very low based on comparable positions with other companies.

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