How is the rating so high… Stay Away! - Anonymous employee SpotOn Employee Review

1.0
Dec 5, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free snacks I guess? Commuter Benefits Basic insurance

Cons

False promises, under delivers and terrible management. Operational processes needs massive assistant and revamp. The product itself needs massive assistant. The executives have no clue about how to run a business. Can’t even figure out their mission as a company. No transparency, ask anyone working there about how the company performances are and more than likely they won’t even know. They are building a sales engine by just trying to get anyone they can to just sell the product or processing. No one is properly trained and the whole process from sales to post sales is just a disaster. There are new hires roughly every month and people leave just as quickly. The rating on glassdoor poorly reflects on how it really is on this company... Way below average pay for where they are located(SF). No option to negotiate either. There’s a valid reason why people don’t stay for more than 6 months. There is no growth perspective in this company, rallies itself as a startup with bunch of opportunities but holds no values close to it. Feels very old fashioned and corporate with outdated policies but wants to keep priding themselves as a hip young startup. You’ll be micro-managed and everyone just pretends that they are happy until you really talk to them. Only like 10% of the company actually knows the product well enough to support it. People working here would absolutely jump ship to another opportunity when given the chance. Sales is ran by arrogant, obnoxious, and immature individuals. Overhearing about how they sell the company is cringe worthy and despicable. They have an entire recruitment team dedicated to just recruit sales agents and they all just have a quota to hit so it's quantity over quality for them. This in returns gets sales reps who have no idea what they are selling. Support is using outdated technology to support hundreds of incoming inquiries, more than half of them are under trained and can’t fully support the needs of the clients. They have built an internal CRM tool but its mediocre at best. Those engineers could easily be put to better use because the tool can just be replaced by a third party system that would do the job much better. Do you research before consider working here.

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SpotOn Response
8y
Thank you for your candid feedback. Please know that we read each and every one of these, and are always seeking ways to improve the overall direction of the company as well as implementing a lot of the feedback in effort to support an environment where we can set our employees up for success--that includes onboarding and training. We appreciate you taking the time to compose your thoughts regarding your experience. It sounds like from the host of issues you had with the company that ultimately we were not a good fit for you. We have had several positive reviews, and pride ourselves on creating an environment where employees can attain their professional goals. As this is a sales-driven company (as you know), we have aggressive growth goals that we're actively putting into place. We wish you the best in your endeavors; thanks again for providing your feedback.

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SpotOn Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. We're disappointed to hear that your time with us did not meet your expectations, particularly regarding leadership and support within your department. Feedback like yours is important to us, and we take concerns about management and workplace culture seriously. If you're open to discussing your experience further, we'd welcome the opportunity to learn more. Please feel free to contact me directly at sarahekstrom@spoton.com. Thank you again for your feedback, and we wish you all the best moving forward. - Sarah
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