Rollercoaster of changes - Commercial SDR Motive Employee Review

3.0
Oct 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The jobs remote, basically free health care, lots of younger people work here, Sick time plus unlimited PTO (as long as you can hit quota)

Cons

Company grew too fast and hired a large number of people to make their IPO coming up look good. Every month about 5-7 employees will leave on their own or fired because of a PIP. And that's just the SDR side, Commercial AEs are dropping like flies as well. Reasons why that happens are cause of the rebrand, before we rebranded you could hit your quota early or a few days before the end of the month, and now they buy a bunch of company's information and filter it by revenue and you will have accounts dropped in your name to call that have no vehicles (no use for motive), companies that don't have enough vehicles in your segment to work and accounts that are duplicates that are already being worked by another SDR. A lot of shadiness to the job as well, begging your AEs to qualify your meetings, venmoing them to qualify something early for you to hit quota and even heard of managers under the table paying AEs to qualify meetings on behalf of the SDRs. In reality this is a good company to work for and wasnt like this when I first started but they are going through growing pains and will change policies that have been in place to benefit upper managements numbers so they don't look bad. But in the end they will always keep their job. If you have made it this far, I recommend reaching out to past SDRs and asking why they left the company.

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Motive Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. From the top down, the key to our business is our commitment to not only our customers but your employees. The experience our team members have at Motive is essential to our business as it helps us attract top talent and continue to grow at the rate we have. Being a part of a start-up and coming out of a rebrand oftentimes requires changes to previous processes that were in place. With that being said, this is the first time this has been brought to our attention by our sales department. This is not how we operate our business, so we don’t take this feedback lightly. We strive to provide an environment where team members feel they’re valued, treated fairly, and respected. Our employees are encouraged to provide further feedback at opendoor@motive.com to help us understand the situation in more detail. Thank you again for your insight, it helps us grow and will make Motive better.

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