What happened....oh, Bain happened - Sales SevOne Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people were great, upper level management was arrogant and incompetent. Some nice fluff benefits but the benefits you'd care about were lackluster at best.  The culture originally in place was great and full of camaraderie but the two sets of layoffs have dealt a serious blow to anything resembling a culture of "awesome." Work life balance was very fair and unlimited PTO is a cool concept but it also means they do not have to pay out unused vacation time.

Cons

First off management is incompetent and totally political. Those that were part of the boys club (from a sales perspective) got the best opportunities and chances to succeed. One long standing employee noted that the same sales people were receiving the same sales awards over the past 5 years. I noticed the same thing in my 2 year tenure.  The lack of transparency and direction from management is laughable and a sad excuse for leadership. Don't expect to have any idea what management is doing and do not trust a word they say. The CEO once misled the entire company by saying SevOne was going to build a tower behind the new Delaware location to accommodate for growth, then the first round of layoffs occurred just a few months later.  Another high-level sales executive boasted that the investors felt SevOne was a potential "Google", only for the company to justify firing people on the basis that the investors did not believe the market opportunity was there just a few months later after that in the second round!

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