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ClearSlide

Acquired by Corel

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Horrible environment that doesn't allow people to be who they are. The worst place I ever worked. - Corporate Account Executive ClearSlide Employee Review

1.0
Jan 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office in San Francisco.

Cons

Your Role - ClearSlide can track what salespeople do as far as how many presentations, emails, who was on the demo, what you're covering in your presentations and so on. The problem with that is they use their own software to micro manage every aspect of your job. The Product - ClearSlide is Java based and as I write this on 01/13/2013, the US Government just released a warning to Java users that asks them to disable it until a fix is found for their security issue. Simply put, the product isn't reliable long term. The People - The recruiters do seem to find some good talent. The problem is almost no one hits quota, you're micro managed to death and you receive no leads at all. The environment is very much "Boiler Room" meets "Glengary Glen Ross" in the sense that your manager doesn't try to help you get better, but yells at you for not hitting your goals. It's a JOKE. Management - Your manager is likely in his/her first role as a manager with no one to lean on for advice because none of them have experience. The way salespeople are treated is laughable. They withhold bonuses until you fight for them, the pay is not on par with other software companies in SF and the only in office benefit for employees is coffee and fruit. Coffee and fruit?

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5.0
Feb 13, 2021
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Pros

Flexible schedules and family orientated

Cons

No bonuses or much career growth

5.0
Apr 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Just to preface this, I have been working for ClearSlide for about 1 month and honestly I feel that all the negative reviews being posted here are from a different time period and don't reflect the ClearSlide of today. My observations thus far: 1. I have never been asked to work 10 hours a day. 2. Being proactive with your own career is how you promote career growth here. 3. Leadership is pushing for the company to be profitable. Can't say that for most investment reliant tech startups can you? So on with the PROs: -Very nice and helpful people- I've never had problems getting information. I have multiple avenues of contact with every team within the company. Despite being on a bit of an island in from the SF office in NYC, I still feel connected and can get resources whenever I need them (after 11:30am EST of course). -You are heard- When I find issues in the platform and report them, I always get feedback. I have found a few bugs or non-intuitive functionality within the platform within the month I have been here and the dev team is already actively working to fix all of them. -Excellent work life balance- Like I said before, I was never asked to work 10 hours a day. -Unlimited PTO -Free food- and lots of it! I have many more pros I could list but I'll just keep it short.

Cons

Cons- -No matching 401k yet -NYC office is much quieter. SF office is more lively and fun at the cost of productivity(compared to NYC at least). Not entirely a con I guess. Can't think of any more cons. Will update if any.

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