MemoryBlue reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(981 total reviews)
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Aurelien Mottier

84% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

MemoryBlue has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 981 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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981 reviews
2.0
Oct 2, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The only reason that this review is getting two stars instead of one is because of the training you will receive and the network of highly intelligent people you will meet during your tenure at mB. -If you are on a good client you will have the ability to hit quota fairly easily and make a decent amount of money -The two delivery managers during my tenure were absolutely fantastic managers. You could tell that they truly cared for the development of their team, and also went of their ways to make sure they build a relationship with employees on a personal level. -You have the ability to get ramped up in the fast growing tech sales industry, and you will get a grasp on how a top of the funnel sales cycle works -You will learn skills here that will make you successful in tech sales moving forward in your career. -Marc and Chris care about their employees and will take time to get to know them, when Chris was in our San Jose office he took time to take out every individual to a personal lunch and get to know us. This is something that is appreciated by us. -The people you will meet at mB will be life long friends. You will grow your network and learn various technologies from various clients in high tech. The biggest take away for me in this position was the people I met, and the people I will continue to meet through the mB network.

Cons

Our Managing Director during my tenure in the San Jose office was by far the worst manager I have ever had in my sales career -The original compensation plan was not geared to motivating mB employees to want to succeed in sales. -The original $3,000 signing bonus you will receive is not a bonus for you, but a security blanket for memoryBlue to keep employees. When I left the company management only seemed concerned about receiving the money back and nothing else. -Every employee must stick to the same process regardless of their client, which most of the time is not efficient. -Some employee's quotas are based on 100% inbound leads and these individuals always hit quota, while most SDR's who are full outbound do NOT hit quota and will not be able to make money at this company.

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MemoryBlue Response
8y
Thank you for posting your anonymous feedback in this forum. As you point out, memoryBlue is set up to help every single employee launch a lucrative sales career. We ramp our hires fast and provide an outstanding array of training methods and techniques that arm sales people like you with skills and knowledge you will draw upon forever. Those real skills have very real, very high value in the corporate world. The industry access and network we instantly unlock for budding sales pros that come work for us is also a huge benefit to our employees. In particular, our Silicon Valley office has exploded this year in terms of employees being hired out by clients – a truly great benefit of working here. With respect to the $3,000 signing bonus that was in effect when you joined the firm (which is no longer part of our business), it functioned the same way any similar bonus or advanced payment (relocation fee, etc) works at virtually any other business. Advanced payments are typically designed to reward and incentivize employees, but they always have some measure of rules and expected length of tenure around them. As you were made aware when joining memoryBlue, every person we bring in to memoryBlue gets a large investment from us. Between the bonus (in your case), your comprehensive sales training, your wide array of client access, your manager’s coaching, your network building and much more, we are proud of that significant investment which carries big value for employees. That you’re seemingly upset about such an investment having a very small set of rules around it is incredibly disappointing. As for comp plans, manager hearsay, unfounded personal allegations, and common complaints about sales clients not being equal, we’ve addressed those items in prior responses here. If you have one or more that you’d like to discuss personally, the CoFounders’ doors are always open and either/both would gladly hop on a call at any point to go into more detail with you. We do wish you success in your future sales career endeavors and we’re at least encouraged that you took away many positive things from your time at our company.
5.0
Sep 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Tons of potential clients that are typically fighting for your service - Marc and Chris and great and like to visit each office throughout the year - You will never find a better culture than memoryBlue: happy hours, Avg. age of employees, group outings, plenty of alumni to network with - As someone who had over 10 clients in a 6 month span I was able to learn a lot about different technologies and pick what was interesting to me - The delivery managers are always available to those who want to learn and be in a sales development role

Cons

- More of a disclaimer than a con: memoryBlue is not for everyone. There will be people who fail and there will be people that succeed. - If you do not show up to work everyday you will fail behind a lot faster than you think - You will probably want to cry once or twice

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MemoryBlue Response
8y
Thanks for your candid insights in this forum. We’re thrilled that you enjoyed the work environment at memoryBlue and even more happy that you gained a variety of tech sales experiences during your time with us. Your commentary is balanced and we always appreciate the honest feedback (the positive and the constructive improvement suggestions).
4.0
Sep 29, 2017

Great Place to Launch Your Career

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Pros

I worked at memory blue for 6 months. I was fortunate enough to be able to move out to California with the company to launch my career in Silicon Valley. Memory Blue is great place for young people who are looking to launch a career in tech. You have the ability to work with other young people who have the same goals as yourself. If you work hard and keep with the system you will get hired out by a tech company which will literally launch your career. I have seen a few posts from disgruntled employees who have been fired talking negatively about the company. However, these people have the ability to get a job extremely quickly due to having tech sales experience. 90% of employees whether let go or left voluntarily have landed amazing jobs. You will never find an idyllic company as a young professional, but if you love working hard and having a great company culture you will thrive with a positive outlook.

Cons

Not everyone will have the same experience. Not everyone will succeed but this place will help you build your skills to go out into the workforce.

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MemoryBlue Response
8y
Thank you for the feedback on Glassdoor. We’re incredibly happy that our model helped you launch your career in tech sales. That’s the major goal for employees at our firm. As with most things in life (and in sales), what you get out is what you put in. It’s our mission to provide the tools, framework, training, extended network and job access to help motivated professionals build a long-lasting and lucrative sales career. Keep pushing your career to new heights and please stay connected to the memoryBlue Alumni network – our extended professional family.
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