WeddingWire reviews

Sales is sales. Anyone who works in it would be able to tell you that. However at WW it's very different. Pricing doesn't seem to be realistic market to market. Rural farm people aren't going to be able to pay the same thing as people in downtown Dallas. Yet, salespeople are hung out to dry trying to hit unrealistic goals. If you don't come in and impress management from the start, they'll stick you in impossible territories until you quit or they get to fire you. They have a chosen few who they decide will be the next stars and they'll get all the praise and the big territories. They literally only care about final results. You can be a terrible employee and miss work, come late, leave early and have a terrible attitude, but if you sell, you're promoted up the chain quickly. Other reviewers are correct that there are high school style cliques all over the office. Top sales performers use stimulant drugs and brag about it in the office. Everyone knows that Ritalin use is common and definitely not only by people it's prescribed to. If your employees need to do drugs to hit their goals, clearly the goals are unrealistic. Outside hires to fill management roles instead of promoting from within started a chain reaction that led to several long tenured sales reps leaving. Reps continue to leave at a high rate.

It has become a terrible technology workplace starting at the top. The c-level's checked out, virtually every decision is delegated to vp's/architects or terribly made. A culture of continuous dumb decision making: Letting marketing dictate the what is being built. Spending two years to re-create wix. ew & Livebooks. Not a single good product since the yelp like wedding catalog made in 2008. The flood of middle-management without sound understanding of technology to run the company. The best developers organically hired pre-2014 are leaving, fired, or looking to leave. Those near the top who're staying are either paid absurd money, related to the boss, too loyal to see the faults in the work, or playing it safe to get paid another day. People have been fired to non-sensical reasons, the HR VP has quit, the new people department is a ineffective. Every good technology company has it's peak/golden era of growth where good smart people want to work there, they're building things, and having fun. Sooner or later the company grows stale, becomes corporate, and die off slowly from declining revenue growth (livingsocial/blackboard). The founders already got their money out of ww, they're diversified and invested other private equity companies. Those devs who stay are paid/overpaid enough so while the smart and talented leave because they're sick of it all. If you're a smart engineer then you should probably go work at one of the many other DC Tech startups. Weddingwire is bureaucracy, corporate politics, and bad management at this point in 2016.