Pitney Bowes reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,827 total reviews)
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Kurt Wolf

63% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Pitney Bowes has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,827 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pitney Bowes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jul 22, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are pretty good

Cons

The work home life...I worked days, nights, and holiday. The company itself is a joke, the product is declining in need, the company can make your life hell just trying to process an order. Very happy not ot work there anymore

4.0
Jun 22, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

I have worked for Pitney Bowes, which is an office management contract company for hire contracted to fulfill office duties within a business. The work environment is professional. Typically, the group of Pitney Bowes employees assigned to a site can be 2-7 people assigned to perform all office functions included, but not limited to mail room operations, filing, faxing, answering multi-line telephones, greeting customers as they come into the office, etc. Because there is a small group of Pitney Bowes employees, the group is usually pretty close and the potential for lasting friendships is strong. Benefits are pretty average. Health Insurance is offered at a decent rate. 401K matching has been suspended until 2010. A useful benefit is the opportunity to get college tuition reimbursement, but a person would have to major in Business, Computer Science, or something related.

Cons

Pitney Bowes is a contract company. If the site that you are working for decides not to renew their contract, you might be out of a job until your managers find another site.

4.0
Apr 30, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

They hire young, motivated, right out of college employees with very little to no experience, so it is a fantastic opportunity to learn and gain valuable experience in business to business sales. There are plenty of advancement opportunities to move into sales management roles, if you show success and initiative. Vast customer base, so even sales cold calls are usually never too cold, because of brand recognition. Opportunity to work with others that are much more tenured in their role as well as many other departments within the company. Territory is usually pretty condensed and protected.

Cons

The base pay is very, very low...commensurate for those with no experience, however even those that go into senior level sales and sales management have barely livable salaries. To a great degree, this is obviously done to keep the sales force hungry and working...and so it goes. However, what it seems to do more of is breed negativity and backstabbing on the sales floor to get all the best accounts. The training is ambitious but lacks the follow up in the field. Reps are usually left confused and without very much direction while able to sell way too many products with very little knowledge of how they relate to the overall industry and competition...in particular when trying to sell the solutions products as opposed to the mailing systems. The product pricing is a nightmare.

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