Apr 20, 2017
MemoryBlue reviews
64% would recommend to a friend
Aurelien Mottier
84% approve of CEO
55% positive business outlook
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MemoryBlue has an employee rating of 3.5 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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Apr 6, 2017
Luck of the Draw
Anonymous employee
MemoryBlue Response
9yThanks for posting your feedback in this anonymous forum. We value multiple perspectives here and yours is an important one to hear. That being said, this feedback looks familiar with feedback we receive from others who didn’t love their professional sales experience and the general theme is common: sales is difficult and it must have been the training that was ineffective and too simple. This narrative goes on to suggest the *only* reason many others have succeeded in sales (at MB or anywhere) is because of basically luck and a product that sells itself. We understand why that feels good to say – it exonerates the individual from responsibility in the outcomes. But when you distill that down to the core, it shines through as hollow. The reality in sales is that what you put in is exactly what you will get out – nothing more and nothing less. Extensive training like we provide, including multi-media lessons on multiple world-renowned sales techniques, direct coaching, group sessions, role play lessons, 1x1 feedback sessions, call recording reviews, presentations and more – all of these things require an active and engaged participant. If you approached it all as if you were above any of it, it makes sense that you didn’t get much out of it. We do wish you the best of luck going forward. If you decide to stick with sales, we hope you’ll reconsider your thoughts and approach to ongoing sales training. Sales is a profession that requires a lifetime of learning and constant practice in execution – and even the most seasoned pros are still self-aware enough to know they have a lot they can add to their arsenal.
Apr 5, 2017
SDR
Anonymous employee
MemoryBlue Response
9yThanks for taking time to post your feedback here on Glassdoor. We appreciate your insights and will take your suggestions for improvements seriously. One thing we should point out is that we do continually work to keep our office experiences extremely similar across our three locations (DC/TX/CA), while also allowing the Managing Directors flexibility to balance that goal with an obvious need to maintain their own unique local culture. The Austin office in particular constantly receives accolades from employees and clients alike for the sensational office culture and team commitment found there. Our organizational structure and sales processes remain inextricably connected and in sync between all of our offices, but some minor differences will also happen organically. With respect to the demand for our services, while this can be cyclical (as it is for all businesses), we’re currently experiencing a strong level of client growth across all of our offices including Austin. And we always fight as hard as we can to avoid any need for downsizing. Any employee separations that may have occurred during your time with us would have been vastly more related to consistently poor and unimproved individual performance versus having anything to do with client acquisition/retention. Lastly, “tough” clients and “hard to hit” quotas are comments that come up on Glassdoor periodically for all sales-oriented organizations. While we’ve addressed those things at length in other responses on this page, suffice to say that memoryBlue is constantly committed to always executing fair sales quota and bonus practices and full transparency as to how these metrics are set throughout all of our offices.
