Podium reviews

-Too much favourtism. When SDR's set for AE's its supposed to be a round robin system but continually SDR's were setting for certain AE's directly, either because they had closer relationships with those AE's, or Pod Leads were telling them to allocate the meeting to that AE irrespective of who came up on the round robin. -The product looks good on the surface but actually isn't quite as good as you think. For one it's too expensive. Most deal sizes are $500-700pcm, whereas it's probably worth around $250-300pcm. Also the review conversion isn't great, and the chat feature is only good for certain industries. Hence the churn here is through the roof. -Definitely some shady behaviour goes on behind the scenes. It's a win at all costs mentality which means there's a lot of wolves in sheep's clothing lurking around. People who present as nice and ethical will still screw you over behind the scenes. -Too many of the leadership team lack experience outside of Podium.

Podium isn’t a sales job it’s a call center. AE’s should focus on closing deals not making 40-50 calls daily. They promise that there are inbound leads and an SDR org but they are underperforming. My skill set is selling not making phone calls to 40 customers in Salesforce that probably won’t answer because Podium just buys lists of contacts.