Great Place to Learn - Senior Commercial Account Executive Datadog Employee Review

3.0
May 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great place to learn how to run sales cycles - Excellent training in CoM and MEDDICC

Cons

- Territories are *extremely* saturated, making it very difficult to hit quota - 99% outbound into a tiny account list, inbound leads are just about nonexistent

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Datadog Response
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Ensuring our employees feel properly supported is important to us and we're happy to hear that you've enjoyed the development opportunities within Sales. We hear your concerns with quota, and we believe that some of our recent sales plan structure changes will provide our teams greater flexibility to craft their path to achievement. If you continue to feel that this is an area for improvement, we strongly encourage you to speak with your manager and/or People Business Partner so that we can understand further. Thank you for your review!

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