This is the worst company I ever worked for - Anonymous employee Hawk Ridge Systems Employee Review

1.0
Apr 30, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Get lunches bought for you sometimes, the product is good (they are a reseller of SolidWorks). They are one of three choices if a company wants SolidWorks so leads come in if a company requests a quote. They have a weak Halloween costume event for last 15 minutes of day once a year

Cons

Where to begin. The communication between departments is horrible. Old, dusty offices where they compiled random mismatching furniture where customers walk in and are the opposite of impressed. The owners are cheap and employees barely scratch by for the most part. Very negative culture and no deal is ever good enough. WEAK commissions for the industry. High turnover of sales reps and operations. The people are mostly rude and will often just slide things under the rug and pretend the don't exist as the customer continues to call in with a problem. Gets really embarrassing after talking with the customer with the lack of follow through. My life was awful when I worked here. Again worst job I ever had

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Hawk Ridge Systems Response
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I am so sorry that was your experience. The ad.hawk team is working on process improvements and communications is a priority for all of us. Successful sales people average over six figures so we think the comp plan is pretty good. Also, our turnover so far this year is 1% and for 2016 was less than 17% which is really low in our business! I hope your next job is the perfect fit for you.

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