Horrific Sales Culture, Deceiving OTE Descriptions to hook in new hires to meet recruiting Quotas-Stay Far Far Away - Account Executive Databricks Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Product backed by best in class engineers

Cons

1.Sales teams are total boys club mentality: Best accounts, territories and promotions are going to peoples friends that they have brought in from other companies, or to folks who have been there for a long time and are favored , any complaints around this topic....nothing happens they could care less. 2. OTE packages are EXTREMELY deceiving. Most reps are living off of purely base salaries as they have massively over hired and there are not enough accounts to go around. 3. Unachievable quotas-They change quotas at every half and higher them to ensure nobody hits targets. This leads to "desperation mode selling" towards customers 4. Sales leadership is aggressive and overly working the field reps with expectations, additionally there is no safe space with the leadership teams, if you complain about anything you will be targeted and retaliate against in a very harsh way.

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Cons

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