TriNet reviews about "manager"

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2.0
Oct 24, 2025

What I wish someone told me

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Pros

Very very complex sale, which can be a good learning opportunity. Solid base pay. If you can somehow manage to stay in the role for a few years, you are rewarded with inbound leads and aren't as required to split in other reps in your deals.

Cons

Ridiculously high turnover (I was hired with about 30 other sellers. After 1 year, only 5 of us remained). Being skilled at cold calling is essential, since you are a glorified SDR for your first year or two since you won't get inbound leads until you have tenure. If you're not great at cold calling, you will be required to attend networking events after 5pm, while still putting up call number KPIs. Opportunities and meetings are so scarce that managers have immense pressure from regional directors to attend every sales meeting in an attempt to ensure success, which they end up taking over and controlling, so you never actually learn. Also managers want to price deals at the very bottom floor to win by price, which only hurts your commission. ROE is so limiting and you are forced to split in other reps on almost every deal. So much pressure and very little development. All managers do is gossip. You are praised for closing 1 deal in your first 12-18 months, that's how difficult the sale is.

1.0
Nov 4, 2025
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Pros

Solid benefits, including 4% 401k match of base salary. Work isn't bad if you have a good manager.

Cons

At least they finally fired the CFO, but senior leadership here is clueless. There's a new head of sales/revenue every year, people I talked to are miserable, and a lot of good people left the organization, either voluntarily or otherwise. No wonder the stock has dropped from >$130 to under $60. Hard to believe the CEO still has a job.

1.0
Sep 23, 2025
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Pros

Salary, Laptop, Home office set up support

Cons

Favoritism, Cheap politics, Unorganized code structure, manager scheduling meetings to discuss “what else” as per his convenience, local/same community people dancing for manager tunes.

3.0
Jun 30, 2025
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Pros

1st line managers and peers are generally helpful and supportive. There are many good, smart people here keeping the lights on Good commission structure Brand Recognition is high in a somewhat niche industry

Cons

Recent leadership changes has the future uncertain Underwriting has begun pricing very high to conserve the book, killing deals Unnecessarily high amount of backend work reps need to do to progress deals

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