Renewals Department - Directeur Éditorial/Directeur D'exploitation Quest Software Employee Review

2.0
Sep 5, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good people relatively laid back pay is decent work life balance is good vacation time is great you are immediately fully vested in 401K

Cons

Lack of communication of direction of company management makes decisions that are questionable The new owners cut a lot of staff and the result was that inbound volume was far too heavy to keep up with - add to that they implemented Salesforce.com for the team and then asked us to fix it for them when it went badly. Requests like this we were typically informed took priority over the inbound requests that were already difficult to keep up with anyway. Management in this department is uninspiring, they are all pretty new to management, don't seem to know much about employee development or care about the employees too much in general. There isn't much sales enablement as you will be asked to tackle heavily administrative tasks that they should have a support team doing There isn't really a training program No real room for upward movement, in an ideal world you would go to a new licensing sales job, but they want to pay you less money overall to be "promoted" to that team You have a team quota with a large team. It is not ideal, it makes "commissions" seem very low, and it makes the quota feel insurmountable

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Quest Software Response
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It sounds like you experienced all the drawbacks of the divestiture and none of the positive impacts. Some of those include a much smaller organization and leadership team, allowing us to make very quick changes when something isn't optimized. There has been significant change in the Columbus based Renewals Team over the last 90 days including compensation, promotions from within, process clean up and sales enablement. It's a very different environment and feedback from employees is positive and upbeat. Good luck as you search for your next opportunity!

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