Connection reviews

3.3

54% would recommend to a friend

(827 total reviews)

Timothy McGrath

48% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Connection has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 827 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Connection 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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827 reviews
1.0
Mar 28, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The veteran employees are mostly stand-up people. They are a great source of encouragement and laughter in the face of the obstacles that senior management throws in everyone’s way. The first eighteen months of pay is just about guaranteed. You would have to work hard to get fired during this period. After that, no one - absolutely no one - is safe. There is no tenure.

Cons

The company aims to grow, but has only two arrows in its quiver: hiring and firing. They will hire you with the irrational hope that you will succeed where hundreds before you have failed. At thirty-six years old, the company has thousands of ex-customers who know its weaknesses. These are the very “accounts” that will be assigned to you as a new-hire. Connection has reached the natural limit of its growth potential. Unless and until the board forces management to modernize its technology and simplify its internal processes, it will stagnate. Management must blame that stagnation on someone. That’s where you come in. Don’t be a scapegoat. If you do choose to accept an offer to work here as an account manager, you will receive a territory consisting of a half-dozen active accounts pried from the grasping fingers of a soon-to-be-less-successful senior sales person; and hundreds of weak prospects. These prospects may be alienated former customers, or angry buyers who are tired of cold calls, or out-of-business entities whose names were left in the database to pad your predecessor’s daily call volume. About phone calls: your productivity will be measured exclusively by the number and duration of your phone calls. These will be tracked and reported publicly - for all to see - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually. This is thought to foster healthy competition. The true result of such monitoring is closer to despair.

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Connection Response
8y
Thank you for taking time to provide feedback about your experience at Connection. As a National Solutions Provider, it is paramount that Connection continue to provide timely and relevant solutions to our customers and to afford our employees a robust work experience. Enhancements to create efficiencies in our internal processes and investment in our internal infrastructure have occurred and will continue to be employed. As an example, in addition to partnering with strategic resources to strengthen our data, our Master Data Management initiative harmonizes data across Connection databases and applications. This translates to better accessibility to data that account managers may access to enhance their conversations with their customers and prospects alike. Productivity data has its place in an organization. Metrics around phone productivity do exist. As an example, when call volume is traditionally high, it is responsible and realistic to have adequate staff to handle the influx of phone calls. Phone activity itself is not the sole indicator of performance. In addition to tangible metrics, there are unquantifiable attributes that contribute to one’s success in the account manager role: drive, confidence, communication and rapport building to name a few. While your neutral outlook is disappointing, we are pleased to hear you were surrounded by colleagues who inspired and provided encouragement. We wish you well in your future employment endeavors.
2.0
Apr 24, 2022

Good People Leaving

Recommend
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Pros

Dedicated hard working team who generally care about the company

Cons

No one listens to employees concerns, nothing changes. Systems have been a mess for over 2 yrs. Pay below Industry standard. Company always raves about how good things are but never show compassion on what turmoil the dedicated people are really going thru to keep this company growing and moving forward. Leadership /management need to really listen to each individual concerns and provide true honest and compassionate information without sweeping it under the rug. Changes are always talked about coming but kept a secret. No light can been seen at the end of the tunnel. The recognition for Tenor people has vanished. There are many unsung heros in this company that go unnoticed. Moral and self esteem are at it's all time low. Many good people or leaving or wanting to leave or quit.

2.0
Jan 14, 2022

Don’t do it!!!!!

Recommend
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Pros

Work from home for certain roles.

Cons

Management sub-par. Versus promoting based on caliber and abilities, it is all politics. The cream doesn’t rise to the top at Connection. Extremely behind in technology. Still use spreadsheets for forecasting! Requests for PTO etc are done via paper. Overly-frugal when it comes to travel. We have to take the cheapest flights. That means odd hours, multiple connecting flights. It’s a stale, dying company. All the good talent has moved on. Look at CDW or Insight instead. Threatening non-compete clauses that don’t actually hold water. A very selfish company.

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Connection Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feelings about working at Connection. We are please to know you enjoyed our flexible work arrangements. We pride ourselves on listening and learning from our current and former employees to ensure a continuous improvement culture and encourage you to share our opportunities for improvement with our team at Recruiting@connection.com.
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