Hard place to work as a Sales Rep - Account Executive Spot AI Employee Review

2.0
Feb 24, 2023
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Pros

All of the managers here are awesome to work with. Nice having that buffer between you and upper management

Cons

Upper leadership is mostly concerned about looking good to investors. The new head of sales was hired in the summer of 2022 and the culture has been downhill since. Their goal was to look good with massive growth, so they over hired in sales (even tho there was much pushback). Rather than admitting they made a mistake with over hiring, they put the new hires on aggressive Performance Plans to force them out. Now they can tell investors “spot ai didn’t have to make any layoffs during these hard economic times”. These performance plans were unfair (the tenured reps weren’t held to the same standards as the new reps). Most of the performance metrics at Spot AI are around Outbound/Cold Calling efforts. The company would rather pump out exaggerated numbers indicating a productive quarter, than caring for the well-being of the employees. They would rather you spend time cold calling than actually doing things that can help your current pipeline. Pay has significantly gotten worse, and relationships with key customers has gotten much worse over the last 8 months. Every change in the last 8 months has been to the sales reps’ disadvantage. Every time a sales rep crushes it and wins a big commission check, they’ll change the comp structure so it is much harder to get big paychecks in the future

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5.0
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Pros

I loved working at Spot AI

Cons

Transitioning from a traditional VMS to Video AI was hard

1.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

With the strict exception of sales leadership, spot ai has some of the best employees around. The engineering, sales, and cs team are top notch, but they have also survived some of the most consistent and degrading changes over the years going from a once 32 account executives strong, to it's current count of only 6 account executives.

Cons

Most of the best employees who helped put spot ai on the map were either unjustly fired, or left. Sales leadership typically only lasts about 6 months and employee churn from sales, to engineering, product development, deal desk, and marketing have all left.

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