re: Good company with strong culture/executive leaders...sales could be tough - Enterprise Account Executive Qualtrics Employee Review

3.0
Apr 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is really a good culture with the TACOS theme. The leadership brings a lot of good energy, ideas, and enthusiasm which bleeds throughout the organization. Sales is a good spot to start in and then migrate to other positions in the company. There really is a strong team mentality. Management does offer a lot of support to be successful. I fortunately did well and had a good book of business. There is good money to be made in the software side. The money isn't as lucrative on the services side. Overall a good software company and good company to be a part of. They try to be transparent with weekly leadership calls. It's a younger organization as many of the sales people, it's their first jobs out of college.

Cons

Given it's a heavy data company, there is a lot of data that leadership uses to micromanage the job. There is a big emphasis on the Gartner quadrant and there is much pressure for sales to be "top right". The quadrant leads to a lot of time doing mindless mining and wasted time that could be devoted to sales. Burnout is real in the sales development role and account executive. The culture could be a bit cultish created heavily by the boys club in Provo. Career advancement is a bit slower once there as there is a rigid model--have to mentor, pod lead, etc. It's frustrating especially when one has the experience already. There is a lot of rah-rah which could seem scripted.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Their actual company leadership does not always make the best decisions and rather than prioritizing root cause issues that impact both the customers and employees' daily work, they would rather prioritize shinier items that give the illusion of innovation. This will trickle down to the employees in the form of stressed deadlines, longer hours, and frustrated clients and/or frustrated teams you may work cross functionally with that are client facing. Your actual experience at qualtrics is largely based on what team/job function you are in and who your manager is. Additionally, there is a glaring diversity issue that remains unaddressed with no real effort to hire more underrepresented people of color, leading to the high turnover rate of underrepresented minorities who are not lucky enough to have great managers.

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