Stay away - Account Executive Yelp Employee Review

1.0
Oct 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Culture, base salary, pto and benefits, snacks, free coffee.

Cons

This job is extremely mentally draining. You’re literally cold calling places in the middle of nowhere that mostly hate yelp because they have been called 5,000 times over already. They wont change your terriotory so your calling the same businesses repeadelty for 6-7 months. Your life is literally cold calling 40 hours a week. Nothing like getting hung up on and cursed out by people first thing in the morning and having to be the fool calling from Yelp. Most of the businesses that sign up cancel from not seeing results after a period of time so that makes you feel even more like a scam telemarketer. Making a dime of compensation is unrealistic for most as you have to close a ton of revenue frequently to even crack 100 extra dollars on your check. Very high turn over rate from burnout. I would suggest anybody with any type of anxiety to stay away from this job because it is a lot of stress to call people out of the blue over and over again and pressure to perform well as your revenue numbers and pitches are posted up for everyone to see. No work life balance because you are drained from talking all day and bring work home with you and the weekends fly by. Your manager will also hop on your calls and be extremely rude and aggressive to the business owners and try to force advertising down their throat until you have really pissed them off and hang up on you. You have to say whatever they tell you to say while the person on the other line doesnt know your being fed lines so they are basically just using your voice. Im going to leave it at that because what it comes down to is unless you are really serious about a sales role this job is a waste of time and im sure you could do better.

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