Dysfunctional Team of Managers - Sales TriNet Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits if you can ignore being treated very poorly by managers. If you can take excessive amounts of stress, be someone's punching bag and give up your life to work for these people, then this job is for you.

Cons

Poorly organized. One minute you're working like mad on a project for Management, then the next you're being told to move on to another. Never ending stress and demands put on employees. Long hours to meet ridiculous goals. Management, with Napoleon complexes, treat employees in an AUTHORITARIAN manner. I have never been so poorly treated by anyone in a work environment as I was with TriNet. Horrible work environment.

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TriNet Response
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We are sorry to learn about your experience at TriNet. While we appreciate your honesty, we sincerely wish you had taken the opportunity to express your dissatisfaction within the organization so that we may have taken steps to alleviate the problems. We always have an HR Business Partner available to listen to employees’ issues and make every attempt to address any and all issues. Additionally, we have had our anonymous ethics hotline in place as an employee resource for many years. We wish you great success in your future endeavors.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

There is a path to success if you work really hard and are willing to stick it out for 3-5 years, but you must know how to play the corporate politics game and can't slip, have a little bit of luck, inherit profitable relationships, and prospect and develop new broker relationships. Benefits are good, and the director's I worked under were great people. If you're in your 20's, it's not a bad place to start your sales career and make decent money. Most deals only close if the benefits pricing is favorable, Always found the offsites and team outings fun.

Cons

Highly political environment.   Highly commoditized product. A fair amount of favoritism.  The prospecting infrastructure is horrendous and limiting for even the best hunters. Splits are the devil and cause resentment amongst sales reps. If you're over 30 and looking to build a career here, would recommend you find a different PEO as there is a 90% turnover rate with first year reps and within 3 years most new hire classes are gone. About 10-20% of sales consultants find success, and the variance of new consultants who find success is in the low single digits.  TriNet isn't exactly well positioned in the market and hasn't been for a few years.   Bad blood with clients and prospects due to decisions made a few years ago for short term business gains. The executive directors and upper management come from a different time in the business.  They found success in a completely different way and completely different market that was more beneficial. They lead with a stick and that trickles down.

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