Bad pay and terrible quota attainment. Sales leadership makes frequent bad calls. - Account Executive BambooHR Employee Review

1.0
21 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Inbound leads, good front line managers, remote.

Cons

Bamboo is known for paying its AEs poorly compared to other companies. They hire low skilled SDRs give them low pay as AEs due to lack of experience and if they stay they promote them to management. Its a revolving door of reps. Last year almost half of the sales team that had been here since 2022 left due to people quitting or getting PIPd. On average only 30% of the team meets their goals each month. Yet the company continues to perform well remaining debt free and having record breaking months. The only people benefiting from these accomplishments is upper management. Most reps barely make it by hitting quota every couple of months. Just enough to keep there jobs but not enough to make money. Upper management in sales has been at bamboo for the past decade. Most managers started as SDRs and worked their way up. Their lack of outside experience leads to bad decisions like setting unrealistic quotas and paying less compared to other companies. They also motivate people in terrible ways like having a demotion path for everyone. While all the employees in the company got a pay bump this year due to high inflation the sales org got told they have three months to hit their target otherwise theyd be demoted with a massive pay cut. Its better than getting fired but the problem is the high quota. Not reps lacking motivation or training. Bamboos sales team doesnt pay well and the high targets cause most reps to consistently miss their goals. They quickly replace reps because they hire low skilled SDRs and promote from within. Bamboo doesn't make an effort to keep the best reps the way the need to which is increasing compensation.

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Pleasant company atmosphere Coworkers want you to succeed

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

If you’re complacent with being told what to do and are OK with the pay, you will be OK working here

Cons

There might not be enough space for what I have to say. Management is full of narcissist. Little to no accountability or responsibility from management. Management job is supposed to be helping the team and supporting them and learning the job which they extremely lack in. If you are OK with having someone tell you how to do your job that doesn’t know how to do your job then, you’re in luck. When the team was failing to hit quota, their solution was to keep it the same while calling the BDR‘s complacent. Management also failed to recognize that reps were obtaining quota only through going to events. A work colleague of mine gave feedback in a meeting and was later criticized for providing feedback. After that meeting, he was told not to speak up in a meeting like that. Yet they say they welcome feedback. Management finds time to do things that don’t benefit the team or add extra task to their plate. The organization also loves pointless meetings that can be summarized in two short sentences. My last piece is that the team has a mutual feeling about management and suckers up to them because they are playing the . Bamboo fails to recognize their weaknesses and if they managed to succeed, I would be impressed with how it’s been ran.

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