Pros
amazing offices, great onboarding in Seattle, nice peers, free food and drinks. I cannot really find any other pros, the environment was in general pretty toxic
Cons
Middle management have no experience, they are all failed recruiters with no experience in technology or software sales nor how its sales cycle and processes work. Micro management is out of control, my manager used to check how long I spent away from my desk, we had pipeline reviews every 2 days, the frustration of having to repeat always the same things over and over was unbearable, try to explain to a manager with no experience in software sales that the sales cycle takes more than 2 days. The only people who were successful in my team were the ones with the highest number of inbound leads. I once ran a report on Tableau showing that I was getting 100 leads (of which maybe 20 were acceptable) per quarter whilst all the other people were getting at least 500 up to 1000 per quarter, I was told to stay quiet and that if I spent more time doing my job instead of creating reports I would maybe be more successful. Great huh? The best thing is that I showed everything to HR and nothing happened, I was told by them to stay quiet too. Furthermore, I was the only foreigner non native English speaker in my team and I was constantly bullied by my manager, corrected in front of customers during meetings, my emails were checked all the time before sending them and my manager was staring at my screen almost all the time to check what I was doing. I mean, I went through 5 interviews before being hired, I thought that my level of English would have been clear enough at that point. The more I tried to express my concerns the more I was bullied and put in a corner. It was a suffocating environment and I am so glad I left even if I had to be unemployed for a few months. Last but not least, salary was ridiculously low, they promised me all this stock options and commissions but then I basically had to live of my basic salary that was horrendous.
