CallidusCloud Reviews

It's run like a 1990's software company. Very top heavy and hierarchical. There is no "partner" with your manager. People run around like chickens trying to kiss up to the CEO, while he talks about all the expensive cars he drives. It's not a casual, open dialogue type place with upper management, though they try to talk the game that it is. As with any company, your experience is based on the group you work in, and I'm sure there are some great groups, and people to work with at CallidusCloud, but I also see a lot of weird groups. Just weird setups, weird and poor communication to team. Back stabbing, etc.. While there is a beer bash, most people grab their beer and go back to their desk to keep working (so again old school trying to be youthful) While there are Christmas and Halloween events, same thing. Very few people attend, and those that do grab food and go back to their desk... I just can't find a better word to describe it than weird.

Just the facts: 100% turnover with CPQ SEs in the past 5 months. 40% turnover with Commissions SEs in the past 5 months... more to come. Aside from LMS, these are the two critical products for the "Lead to money" suite. 8 months in, essentially your 1st full quarter as a contributor, you will quickly begin to question if the level of effort is worth the return on your time. A pervasive problem within the team. AEs are great at generating activity. Which creates a significant alignment imbalance by supporting a workload 20-40% greater than your bandwidth just to reach your OTE. Here's the crux. AEs want to show their manager a promising pipeline they can close. The value is based on activity (i.e. more demos means greater interest which equals higher probability, and most importantly I get to keep my AE job) What this means for you is repeating the same demo to different stakeholder groups over and over OR building POCs often for your first sales event for "deals that aren't real". An expression you'll often cite during pipeline analysis.