Zones reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,335 total reviews)

Firoz Lalji

64% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Zones has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,335 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zones 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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1K reviews
2.0
Feb 14, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

There are not a whole lot of pros anymore. There are some cool people who still work here but a lot have left, and many more are looking. This ship is going down and going down fast. Sales are down, micromanaging is up as middle and senior management have entered CYA mode.

Cons

Where should I start. Our comp is a nightmare, and has decreased every year for the past 3 yrs. The culture is toxic, it would take the EPA to clean it up. For the last two years we transitioned accounts to "right size books", we were told relationships don't matter, even though relationships with our customers fueled our growth in our heyday. Now that all of that has failed, we are told this year is a year of acquiring new accounts, but our pay plan doesn't compensate us to do so. We are told our core sales are down, but then they roll out a pay plan that doesn't pay a whole lot and encourage us to chase whales. Run rate business is important to the company, but they don't want to pay for it. Run away, don't take a job here. We have closed the Dallas and Bellevue offices, the parking lot in Auburn is empty most days, 5yrs ago, if you arrived after 7am you would be hosed finding a parking space, now you can park up front cause everyone is gone.

2.0
Nov 5, 2019

The Fish Rots from the Head

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Seemed decent place for a suburban office about 5-7 years ago. Had a bunch of former Weyerhaeuser managers in charge, who worked hard to grow this business and get organized.

Cons

Most people with half a brain are now gone from this place, and it started from management. Most people left in charge would not survive in any other large corporation (and, in fact, some have been Microsoft and Amazon outcasts). They are hiring from the bottom of the barrel, paying peanuts and, very pompously, demanding a lot of those poor people. Here's a newsflash - you can't pay way below average for Seattle Metro tech field, and have your employees pretend they are hot shots putting together flashy meaningless reports, suck up to losers who run them, and get virtually no promotions, no bonuses, and no decent benefits. Higher-grade sales people can get away with murder, sell from gray market, and flat out act like royalty. Lower-grade sales people constantly get cheated out of commission, and, out of boredom, sleep with each other. In fact, this place has way too many sexual harassment cases swept quietly under the rug. Why? Probably because people are bored, they are expected to work long hours (whether or not that produces results), and participate in way too many pro-forma meetings that could have been an e-mail.

1.0
Sep 7, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free coffee, various sorts: Iced, cappuccino, tea

Cons

Horrible management. They will try to remove you for something stupid. They will lie to your face. Everybody is stressed about losing their job. Everybody is looking for a new job. They will say "It is hard to get fired here" but really the employees end up quitting because the communication sucks and they don't give what the employees need. The team only values numbers and their numbers are unrealistic. Nobody is able to reach the minimum expectations. They don't care about improvement. Jump ship.

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