MemoryBlue reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(980 total reviews)
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Aurelien Mottier

84% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

MemoryBlue has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 980 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MemoryBlue employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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980 reviews
5.0
Mar 1, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Separation- each BDR is stack ranked, on a month to month basis, against 300ish BDR(s) in firm. This allows ANYONE an opportunity to come in and create separation. You can leverage that ranking system into a resume builder. If you can sustain separation for 8 -12 months you will become high valued asset with loads of opportunities; there isn't a software company in the world who wouldn't seriously consider you in their sales development function. You will become an extremely desirable asset if you can do this

Cons

-Surface level training- The MB method teaches people to sell at a very high level. A lot of which is essential in learning how to become a good BDR. But given how often they hire, the managers are very stretched out. You get very little company specific, vertical specific or industry specific training. Need to be a self learner. Frat culture- there is really no way to sugar coat this. MB is white male dominated. It feels very much like the beginning of a Jordan Peele film. It is pervasive throughout management. Yes man culture - MB rewards not asking questions and doing what you are told. This in turn, blinds people to their worth in the market. They can be very sneaky and don't really care about what is best for your career, you have to be your own advocate and keep your guard up. Don't drink the Kool aid,

3.0
May 16, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The framework of the company is great. Hire young, train, elevate. MemoryBlue (mB) trains their workers very well and the culture within the office is amazing. Working with college-grads and people near your age definitely helps you grow and learn individually and as a team. The training programs are useful and the company is great at getting you to learn while working and then reviewing everything so you can improve even faster. Whether it's doing call reviews with the office, daily huddles to keep you motivated, or just talking to managers who are always there is great. Some of the managers are great. Opportunity to make more money based on how well you perform for your client. Pass quota, make money. Miss quota, lose money.

Cons

Your client is the most important factor in your success. If you get a bad client then you're unlikely to hit quotas or succeed until you get a new client or something drastic changes. While SDRs can definitely do well, their overall success is heavily limited by the client. There seems to be an overall bias against the California office, it used to be quotas then decisions management made to help VA/TX SDRs and not the CA SDRs when similar issues arose. The contract includes a stipulation where if you leave before the company releases you or you get hired out by your client then you have to pay the company back for the "training" your received. Some of the managers suck. The opportunity to make money is severely limited by your client. If you have two clients and one is great and the other is bad then you're out of luck because everything is based on minimum % of quotas so the lower quota is the one that matters.

1.0
Jan 4, 2018

San Jose Office is a Revolving Door

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Pros

Nice people in the office. Everyone is motivated to work in technology sales and make money.

Cons

- MemoryBlue underpays you for your work. - Your clients are given very high expectations of what you will provide (over promising and under delivering is common) - Public humiliation for having "bad calls" is also common. - Too much micro managing. - Nobody in the office has technical experience so learning about the technologies that each client sells is almost impossible. - Jeanne can be 2-faced. - Stop with the 30 minute trainings every day. They are redundant and annoying.

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MemoryBlue Response
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Thank you for your anonymous feedback here on Glassdoor. We appreciate the Pros you’ve listed above and as well as your point of view regarding the Cons. Respectfully, regarding a few of your points, we have a few responses. First, memoryBlue has very high expectations of what our team will provide. We are a professional services firm and we do not exist without terrific sales delivery on behalf of our clients (and we’re growing, which is a very positive sign that our model is highly effective). But far from leaving our sales team on an island to deliver against our own high bar, we lean into the challenge and do everything we can to ensure success for all parties involved. Our sales training and coaching takes on a variety of forms and formats (live call coaching, regular 1x1 feedback sessions, staff trainings, self-paced training activities, and much more). Our sales managers roll up their sleeves and get in the mix because they have valuable knowledge that can help their teams improve. Sales is not easy, but with great coaching and ongoing experience, it can be extremely rewarding (as evidence by our hundreds of Alumni that have elevated on to positions of increased sales responsibility with some of the tech industry’s biggest names). We seek to develop a culture of continuous sales learning and skill building, while our clients reap the rewards and benefits of the culture we create. And ultimately, our employees add wildly marketable sales skills during their tenure with us that help them on a fast-track to lifelong sales career success (be it with us or the next stop on their journey). We hope your experience with memoryBlue improves in the coming weeks and months, as we are committed to helping every employee in every office realize their full sales potential. Co-Founders Chris and Marc have an open door policy, so please feel free to reach out and discuss your concerns directly with them any time, as well.
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