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
3.0
Jul 10, 2013

Not for everyone

Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation plan, broad and competitive product offerings, focus on promoting from within, great initial training and ongoing training resources

Cons

Absolutely no lead gen for senior reps. Competing with recent college grads for opportunities and territory. High turnover rate. Lack of marketing support to individual markets. Company still figuring out how to evolve from a telecom company to cloud/professional services. Still an "every door, every floor" mentality instead of strategic sales/marketing and internal sales collaboration between channel, lead gen, and senior account executives. Paperwork process for selling new customers is a nightmare and very complicated.

1.0
Mar 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

People that worked there. I would say it's good if it's your first job out of college, or first time in sales. Go for the training, and get out!!!

Cons

micro-managed. Long days-- 7am to 6pm, Role Play, first thing in the morning, daily team meetings to go over what you just went over yesterdays. 50+ doors a day.. They will count your cards when you check back in the office every day. Gas reimbursement is horrible, like really... If you have a territory that is 20-30 miles from the office, its going to suck to report back to the office every day so they can count your business cards, and then drive to your house. HIGH turn over rate.. They will track you, and check in on you every hour, you are given a blackberry. People yelling at each other in the office, and there are so many HR violations, that it's not even funny.. I quit after 3 months, and found another company.

2.0
Aug 21, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great training for any sales position in the future. If you can mke it 6 months you will be contacted by recruiters...they say if yhou can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

Cons

They want you to be there 7am to 8pm. You have the same exact sales meeting every day going through objections and how to quaify like a game in front of everyone that works in the office. A lot of testosterone and extreme unprofessionalism. Get ready to see 60 businesses in a day (totally unrealistic. You know your reps will be spending more time trying to cheat to get to that number than actually working on qualifying the right prospectc)and beat down your territory to a pulp. Your potential customers will hate you and many threatened to call the police on me the first week I started due to previous reps being too aggressive with the customers.your opinion does not count for anything! The company does not care what you have to say about using you as a tester rat for new untrained managers who are 12 years old telling you what to do all day and calling you 5 times a day and asking where you are at with appointments...every day...you wil be hounded. God forbid you call in sick - they will guilt you into coming into the office by stating where you are at with your number to quota or where the team is. DO NOT WORK HERE if you do not like micro management, extreme stress, bs corporate lies to your face about "innovative products" that are two years old.

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