Cbeyond reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(429 total reviews)
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Jim Geiger

66% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

Cbeyond has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 429 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cbeyond employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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429 reviews
2.0
Sep 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

If you're right out of college and this is a first job, you may want to consider it. They offer a great sales training program. Use this job as a stepping stone to get the sales job you want. Young culture, weekly competitions, and spiffs. And they have a great advancement program, so if you work hard and do well you'll get promoted really quickly. And by quickly I mean within weeks.

Cons

There is nothing glamorous about this job. Every day you are out there beating the bushes knocking on door to door of local businesses. And here's the thing... the businesses/business owners hate you. Because you're interrupting their day and trying to sell them a product/service they do not want. That someone else has already tried to sell them 20 times. The gatekeepers usually know who you are the moment you walk in the door. The Management team has really unrealistic expectations of their sales reps. They require that you hit 50 doors (business) a DAY and if you run an appointment that counts as 10. So yeah... 50 cold calls a day. Lastly, I wasn't that impressed with their product/service offering so I didn't feel that good about what I was selling. I never felt like I was giving the business owners a valuable solution.

3.0
Sep 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

During the early years Cbyond was a great place to work at....if you applied yourself you would be sucessful. Great people to work with...easy to collaborate...friendly environment. Everybody was energised ready to work and get things done.

Cons

As time went on things started to change as company was not valued as they once was, investors were demanding changes to drive share price as such culture changed with new management coming in and eventually company got sold to a privately held telecommunciation services company.

4.0
Aug 15, 2014

Post Acquisition

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Birch and Cbeyond are now one company and anyone posting an opinion should post it to one site not two!

Cons

Change is always hard but cbeyond staff are not the only ones getting laid off.

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