Any Sales position equals temporary employment - Enterprise Account Executive Paychex Employee Review

1.0
Jan 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They pay there employees on time.

Cons

I was with the sales organization for over 9 years. I was a boomerang and worked on different product teams, and in their new channel program. Across all my territories the DSM’s are greed ridden, self obsessed, jealous, ego maniacs!!! There are too many other cons to mention but honestly guaranteed you will not even get past the first one I mentioned as Paychex entire middle sales management is broken. The entire culture comes from middle management as they are all awful and guaranteed to manipulate and burnout any honest person with good intentions. If you’re good, talented, and have a HR network the managers jealousy will be sure to ruin you. If you “hit the ground running “ and exceed or even meet expectations you will be drilled daily for more and on metrics there is NO HOPE. I have seen rookie reps come in and out 100k up in a month only to quit in month 2. Even if you are used to this environment I am telling you it wont work. You will have DAILY quotas and crazy weekly quota asks. If you don’t meet you will get a PIP for 30 days no longer. It used to be a pretty amazing company in the 2010’s now they are too big to fail but to middle management is too stupid to realize and have there boots on your throat each and everyday. Never a break, never a season or temperament of relief. You will be emailed, texted, and called up to 60 touches a day all of it basically threats and manufactured optimism from your manager.

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5.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

People and the overall environment is a positive one. If you do your part, definite long term career potential. It’s not easy- but stable, growing. Worth serious consideration for early career looking for sales experience with a great training program. Also good for mid-career consideration if base salary isn’t the primary reason you are in sales.

Cons

Very fast pace that doesn’t suit everyone. If you are looking for easy or just a job to “hang out”, this probably isn’t the right spot for you.

1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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