Softchoice reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,289 total reviews)
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Andrew Caprara

81% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Softchoice has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,289 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Softchoice 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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2.0
Jun 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Culture, it's generally a young energetic company where most people are willing to pitch in and help. Generally a relaxed sales environment. Not very much pressure to hit your number every quarter. Medical benefits are superb (Canadian company). If you're newer to IT sales, it's a great place to get exposure to, and training on a lot of diverse technologies.

Cons

If you don't have pre- or post-sales engineers in your city, it's very difficult to make money...unless you've had your accounts for 5-10 years. Company is keeping to the fun/cheeky branding, which does not give customers a professional image, IMHO. Compensation is dismal, unless you've had your accounts for 5-10 years. Like usual VARs, it's heavily commission based. Unlike usual VARs, the base salary is below industry standard. There are other VARs who are better overall, and give a sales rep a better chance to make money.

1.0
Jun 3, 2015

Inside Sales Account Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good Health and Dental Benefits, Beautiful office location, and a very youthful work environment

Cons

Speaking on just the location of where I worked (Seattle), they had below average management and organizational structure issues. If you already have experience, this is not the place for you as they are looking for a blank canvas to sell within their "strategy". They do have some good managers and employees but it seems that the decision makers are rookies in the bigger scheme of tech sales. Career path is terrible in this company as your compensation is limited by their pay structure and their promotions are either vendor specialists, outside sales rep, or one of the 4-5 manager positions which are barely vertical moves up. If they want to have a sale focused company, they need to open up the commission structure or have multiple levels of positions to move up through but currently as it is, it's in a strange middle ground. The training is also poor here as they start well but don't know how to progress you up to your position. I was promoted to my position within 2 months mainly because a bunch of people quit around the same time.

2.0
May 31, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Benefits were very solid -Training -Work life balance

Cons

-Micro-management from most managers / directors -Very low compensation -Need to invest into offices outside of just the call centers (resources, marketing, leadership, etc.) -Very little outbound marketing

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