The positive reviews for Salary.com are written in China - Sales Salary.com Employee Review

1.0
Dec 29, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It'll be sold soon and this mess will come to an end

Cons

This is a complete sham of a company that once was a great place to work. Read the positive reviews...notice they're all in broken english? They're written in China by the development team who are told by the CTO to put in a 5-star review. Glassdoor doesn't even exist in China so they VPN into a US machine just to write the review. Salary.com churns through executives every quarter. How many heads of marketing have they gone through at this point? How many CFOs? Kent, the CEO, has no one left that wants to work for him and no one that has worked for him has a good word to say. He's overly litigious, pissed PayFactors beat him in every way imaginable, and now just running the same playbook again and again without adding any innovation to the industry. How did Kent respond to getting his butt kicked by PayFactors? By copying them. "PayMarkets" replaced scopes. The marketing on the website included completely made up products like crowdsourced data, just because Kent said it should...we didn't even have a crowdsourced data product. It's all smoke and mirrors. Read the blog posts. They look like they're written by a 4th greater. There was one on a new report writer that was written like every user who reads it is a complete moron. The features that get announced are re-treads of ideas that came out 15 years ago. WHOAH we can drag and drop columns in a table? WOW. Our pages look like it's an exercise in how many buttons we can fit on one page. There are no new ideas in the product, nothing cutting edge. The company took on over $50M in "growth debt" that will soon come due. Kent is going to bail, sell the company, and ride off into the sunset richer, but he hasn't done anything to move the industry forward.

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Salary.com Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. While we disagree on a few points, we appreciate the time and thought you dedicated. Transparency is a big part of our culture. We are thrilled to have our whole team share their feedback on any forum and happily provide global teammates with consistent opportunities to do so. We're happy to report 0% US turnover in Q4 of 2021 in a competitive recruiting environment, including an executive team who has been proud to work with Kent for years. Salary.com has always been a big believer in healthy competition and look forward to continuing to push the boundaries to help companies get it right in an ever changing climate. It sounds like you didn't have the best experience with us in the past. We genuinely apologize that was the case. Although we try our best to create a top tier employee experience for our Salary.com family, there is always room for improvement. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. Wishing you a happy and healthy 2022! - Your Salary.com Employee Experience Team

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