Demandforce reviews about "training program"

i want to preface this review with saying every review on here before Jan 2016 is outdated because that's when Intuit owned the company and treated everyone like royalty. who demandforce is today is more accurately reflected from the start of this year (jan 2017). all the reviews after January to now are a more accurate reflection of what you're about to get yourself into. someone needs to reveal the truth that management tries so hard to hide. the #1 biggest con of demandforce are the managers. they are just a bunch of 20-something year olds who decided to stick around past intuit selling this company to internet brands because they know they will never get paid this amount anywhere else. NONE of them are qualified to mentor and lead sales reps. they are cliquey and CLEARLY pick favorites. i've watched so many people be screwed over in a promotion path, and in that same breath i've watched people get promoted that definitely don't deserve it. the sales training program is more focused on makeup and shoes than actually helping reps develop and grow. it's a disgusting environment. managers talk poorly and gossip about reps on their team to other reps on the floor! it's corrupt, and honestly a joke. the only reason the intuit people are still there is because they make too much and literally do nothing. i have so many more negative things to say, but to keep it short (ish): if you're looking for an actual tech sales job that's going to help you build a career, you're wasting your time here. with the lease expiring soon, this place probably won't even be around next year. i gotta get out of here.

I think what made Demandforce an amazing company to work for was the ability to collaborate with like minded individuals. Once everything went remote and WFH, this collaboration became a bit more difficult. The quotas and KPI metrics are realistic. Once you get the hang of selling Demandforce and closing business, you might start to have an inkling that you can make much more money working for another company as the pay isn't that great. Promotion path metrics are constantly being adjusted. I worked the same 1200 leads for a year, so you have to be extremely tactical about how you work them.

From my understanding, ever since Demandforce got acquired by Internet Brands, the product development is practically non-existent, company is only focused on retaining their existing client base and cutting all other expenses, which may explain the low salary and the huge attrition rate.

Demandforce grew extremely fast and I feel we suffered a bit, especially with employee retention. We have really dedicated a lot of resources to fixing these issues and you can feel the positive impact.

-Middle and lower management is suspect -reps sell and provide customer service. We all know which one they spend more time on. This leads to unhappy customers and cancels. -Start up feel is slowly fading away

I saw the company failing ... so many spontaneous re-org changes, changes in comp, leadership, teams, verticals and all these changes have not been beneficial Sales got to the point it was VERY cut-throat; and all management was doing was firing good sales reps left and right. The culture and morale deteriorated as many reps left the company for better opportunities. I did NOT feel supported by my manager, and feel valued as an employee. My needs weren't met, my voice was not heard, and felt nothing but a number

Demandforce suffered from it's rapid growth as the promoted inexperienced people to middle management. This made it difficult to find a person to help you grow your career. Although the company was continually hiring, there were few positions available for promotion. The executive team could never figure out how to fix the culture to bring it back to the pre acquisition days.

There is a fair amount of turnover, so sometimes the people above you shift around too much. Like for instance, when my hire class came into the training program, some of the people that designed and ran it switched roles, so it was left up in the air to be figured out by others. Unfortunately, they didn't really figure out what to do until we were all moved out. We moved into a vertical that had movement in the managers, business development, and marketing shortly after going into that vertical officially. That left us in a bad spot, and as a result, none of us lasted very long. We were all really sad about it, but there was nothing we can do. After that revamp of the training program and shift, I believe it has gone back to being successful.