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Cogent Communications

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Stay far away - National Account Manager Cogent Communications Employee Review

1.0
Apr 21, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Senior management lies and tells you that you can sell to a massive Total Addressable Market to your face, however the total reachable market is a tiny fraction. This company harasses the client base with incessant phone calls and emails, so much so that companies request no further contact, but these fools do not stop!

Cons

Only tenured reps make money here. 20+ employees per month celebrate 1 year anniversary, but only 2 make it to year 2. It's a turn-style of new employees coming and going. Poor leadership, they don't even know what Messaging works! You use a company cellphone to Clock In that is GEO-FENCED to make sure you are in office and you are not allowed to be LATE or EARLY. It is a CALL CENTER, not a tech sales job because you are essentially teeing up deals for your Boss. The CEO does a regular all hands call where one can here him as he is obviously not informed of how poorly the company is actually run. Their pipeline is very fragile and Covid made this company IRRELEVANT. 15 people made President's Club, out of 500+ reps, a very few make $$ here.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free coffee and soda that's it.

Cons

Where do you even start. The company has no direction and the stock has dropped over $70 in a year. All the cutbacks that they make to cover losses come from reps compensation. You have to clock in and clock out everyday like you work in a candy factory and if you miss clocking in or clocking out they fire you. So many lazy people .They equip you with a laptop from 2017 that barely works and an iPhone SE from 2006. Most of the prospects block the numbers so cogent can't call . They have no one to sell to.

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