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2.9

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Richard Crawford

35% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jan 18, 2016

Thin Air

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fairly cool company to work for right out of college. You will get a lot of access to the CEO, just not the rest of the management team. You will definitely get some cool title for resume building and probably a quick promotion, and the pay is competitive. Lots of praise coming your way in the first two months. Very close to the Cricket for drinking away the day's many pains.

Cons

Access to this CEO is not something you want. The second you go from being one of the hundred+ yes-man in his organization you are out. The reviewer who mentioned vaporware hit the bullseye, you are not really building any real sales acumen when you are literally mandated to tell a potential new customer anything and everything to get the sale regardless of truth, and when you have so little pricing integrity you can discount as much as needed to compensate for the product shortcomings. There is no real process or systems that a legitimate company would have in place, like full fledged human resources, performance reviews, lead generation, that type of thing.

2.0
Aug 24, 2015

Oversold

Recommend
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Pros

You can get a lot of responsibility really fast, mostly because experience doesn't matter and if you're well liked and play the game the right way you'll get promoted. You will probably be the VP-ofsomething, since almost everyone is, and that can help on your resume when you start to look elsewhere. Commissions are paid quickly... Oh and if you're in sales, you don't have to be that good, because you can promise almost anything to a prospect and nobody in the company cares, its a 'sell it cheap, sell it fast,' atmosphere where sales doesn't have to take the fall for overselling the product, the customer does when they realized what they actually bought, so that helps in closing deals. Sales is king here - so that's a definite Pro if you get on that side of the fence. Also, the office is in Cherry Creak, a pretty cool part of Denver and you are close to Whole Foods, the Cricket, the mall, and tons of botiques so great lunch and shopping options everywhere

Cons

This one's simple, start with the problem, the very top of executive management. When the company's hiring strategy is to hire young, that way the top executives can continue to be abusive, disrespectful, and cruel without any consequences or challenges to their authority because no one knows any better, or is too afraid to say something, you know you have a leadership problem. Don't expect help unless its a close friend or your attorney, don't expect your manager (if you have one) to care or do anything, and don't expect things to get better until the top executives move on. The top of the sales team is pretty much a figure-head, so don't expect to ask for marketing support, coaching, time, and actually see anything happen. Its also hard to keep up to date on the actual software since so many promises are made to clients and then changed, that we never really know whats happening or why

1.0
Aug 12, 2015

Sales

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Incredible opportunity if in your 20s and want to make a good salary. Fun young people to work with. Not a ton of experience required to get a sales job.

Cons

Where to begin, there are so many it's hard to know what to start with. CEO is an egomaniac who is abusive, disrespectful, cruel and only pretends to care for his employees. VP of sales pretends to be on your side but is only out for himself. There is no guidance, mentoring or constructive advice. He closes every deal according to him so why even have a sales team. Plus, he can't think for himself, it's all about what the CEO says to do. Promotions aren't justified, they are just handed out when other sales reps leave. CEO says he fires everyone, but more than half the sales force has left him. VP of Sales and CEO talk poorly about their reps to executive management. If you aren't liked, then they basically start treating you like an outsider so you will leave. "You will make more money than you ever dreamed." - trust me, this is not true, especially in Denver so many jobs that you can make more money and be treated like a human being.

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