Toxic Sales Leadership Sabotaging Great Technology - Account Executive Axonius Employee Review

2.0
16 July 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Game changing technology & had a great culture Great benefits and development team support is bar none Excellent founding sales leadership who live by values and do their best to be transparent & own failures True team atmosphere at the individual contributor level

Cons

Rapidly growing start ups always face an inflection point and cultural shift. New problems require new ideas and the execution can be painful in the pursuit of excellence and IPO. Then there is Axonius sales leadership who acts with a level of pure incompetence and casual arrogance that customers, partners and employees wonder if they were brought in as board nepo-babies with an unadulterated agenda of self-sabotage to cool a rocket ship technology to be purchased at an optimal valuation by a bigger fish. The toxicity of sales leadership makes Chernobyl look like a nice place to raise a family. You will not know if your SE, field speaker or channel rep will be terminated right before a critical event, speaking engagement, or customer facing call without thought of replacing that resource or customer reaction. You operate under a level of dysfunction and political purge that would impress Mao. There is chaos and then there is Axonius chaos, where the modus operandi is the bridges I burn light my way. You will waste your talents here or face the wrath of leadership who see the most minimal divergent thought or market feedback as a violation of their fundamental values. If they demonstrated basic sales competence on customer calls, it could be passed off as process enforcement. But the top wrecks customer, partner and prospect relationships with extreme malice and concrete disposition that their opinion and communication is infallible.

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Axonius Response
1y
Thank you for your candid feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to write this, even though this feedback is very hard to read. First, I'm happy to see that you identify a lot of positives about Axonius, specifically our culture and values. However, the experience you describe in Sales is alarming and does not align with Axonius' culture and values. As Chief Revenue Officer, I'm responsible for sales and this is not the environment I seek to create. I know that you may not want to reach out to me directly, but I'm offering to connect 1:1 to understand more. Thank you again for sharing your experience. - Nick Degnan, CRO

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