Sales Rep Churn & Bad Commission Structure - Account Executive ZoomInfo Employee Review

2.0
Mar 11, 2021
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Pros

Product has good features, some strong sales leaders, lots of inbound leads

Cons

- Too many sales reps with no structure or territory. Everything is round robin and you only get quality leads if you have an "in" with the SDR team - Pricing is about 5x of most competitors - Data quality varies greatly, making hard to sell a solution that you know has flaws - Management churns through about 10% of sales reps every quarter. I closed over $1m in ARR, coming in at 97% quota attainment and was put on a PIP for "lack of performance". Meanwhile reps who closed $500k are still employed. - If you weren't hired pre-aquisition of DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo, you have no job stability. Out of my class of 10 new hires, I was the last to remain employed after only 1 year - Very low commission rates (lowest I've ever seen in sofware sales) - Commissions paid on cash collected, so you may have to wait over 6 months to get your commission on a sale. If someone doesn't pay, the sales rep turns into a bill collector - No visibility in commission calculations - At the end of the day you are just another number out of hundreds of reps - Shady agreements with high annual uplifts and automatic renewals that lock in customers against their wishes

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Good pay, good benefits and great office.

Cons

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