Steelwedge Software reviews

Let's start at the top: CENo = Was once a customer, but is now our leader???? Who thought that this would be a good idea. Came in with some lofty sales goals, even brought in his team from a previous company. Well, these lofty sales goals, NOT EVEN CLOSE. Nothing wrong with previous sales leadership, we will get to the new leadership soon. As a leader, it is easy to rally your troops when things are going good. However, when you are hitting a rough patch, it says a lot about a leader to exude confidence and rally your troops to keep working for the ultimate goal. Well when the CENo decides not to address the troops at the holiday party, well, you kinda get an idea that he may not be the right man for this job. Sales Leadership = Dwelling on past success before you have an idea of the new lay of the land can come back to bite you. Funny how there was a semi full team of inside and outside sales teams when this new leadership started. Hard for a new leader to get troops to rally when you berate the existing sales team and point out that they will be shown the right way to do things. Well, when new leadership fails to produce..... You tend to blame others for your failed leadership. What do you expect to accomplish with the pipeline with new reps who don't know how to sell this product. How is sales leadership going to train, when they cannot even sell this product. A whopping 2 sales in 2015!!!!! Way to go team!!! Marketing = When the Marketing team cannot get a hold of the CMO, because the CMO cannot keep their own calendar. You know that is a recipe for disaster. One updated product sheet from March to December is not productivity. At least you changed the color and the logo. When good productive employees are let go, to keep those who play the brown nose game, that does not boost morale for others still employed. It questions decision making from the top and it does not boost confidence moving forward.

* Waste of talent The company's rather unique idea of getting the best deal out of new hires is to capitalize on the initial honeymoon period when they're giving 150% of effort. Once you are settled in, buh-bye! The cycle then repeats for the next batch of hires -- unless you're being grossly underpaid where it's still a great deal for them to retain you, in which case you should leave on your own anyway to get a 40% pay raise at, like, any other place. * Lack of support to those on the front line The high churn-rate means very few people have holistic or in-depth knowledge of the product. We're either dealing with new people who aren't familiar with the system, or veterans who don't get to survive till this day by being, well, entirely open and forthcoming. Either way we get fed BS. This makes the lives of those of us who directly interact with customers extremely difficult, as it's virtually impossible to get a straight answer of anything when we're being helplessly grilled by the customers. * Waste of VC fundings Let's rent and furnish a new office in a tech hub, hire some people, then fire all of them in a couple of months and shut down the office, with zero productive outcome to show for! Those poor people moved with their family and kids and were quickly out of a job. Go on, spin it and rationalize it for me on how all of the workers were "non-performant" or "won't adapt to new ways of doing things". Hello, it was a new office which you just opened. Who hired them in the first place if they sucked so badly? And after a few months you thought the whole thing was a bad idea? Superb foresight and planning! To the VCs who poured money into this sinkhole, I hope you're feeling good about how your money is being spent. At least you got to party at five-star hotels in SF with them. Oh, you weren't invited? * Head-in-sand attitude towards problems I'm actually glad they're posting those fake five star reviews laced with corporate doublespeak. They are the perfect proof of how problems are dealt with at this company: pretend everything is fine, label independent thinkers as "poor fits", fake everything publicly to cover up all the crap underneath. Don't kid youself with the so-called "open door policy" -- you'd just publicly make yourself a target of an expedited exit. They want rubber-stampers, yes-men, death march followers, not leaders or critical thinkers who have standards. People ain't dumb, we know your schtick. See the surge of people sneaking into meeting rooms or outside the building to take private phone calls? Hint: they aren't talking to their beloved sickly grandmother. The ship is sinking fast and we are looking to get off. May God have mercy on the sucker who even entertains the preposterous notion of acquiring this hopeless company.