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Not For Me - Account Executive Convex Employee Review

2.0
1 July 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Work from home without any questions. - Some offsite meet ups where they let the sales reps stay overnight. - If you came into the office you received free lunch.

Cons

I worked here for a short time in 2021. It only took me a couple of months to know this was not the place for me. - In my opinion, a cobbled together solution with duct tape and shoe strings. - Unreasonable quotas. - Not enough accounts. - Micro management from the leadership team. - Everyone needed urgent updates on deals daily. - Nights and weekends were fair game. - No work/life balance. - Everything was a fire drill. I decided to select my sanity over a job. You may have a different experience, and I hope you do if you select Convex, but for me this place was unlike any other sales job I had before.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Other engineers are friendly and smart. Overworked, and forced to push subpar code by leadership, the PMs are also trying their best to keep up with the completely random fickle demands of leadership.

Cons

1. I think the founders are awful. No one likes the CEO. The CPO just thinks he can lead engineering as well. The avg. pay is not worth the trauma of working here. 2. Too many VPs and closed-door discussions happen for such a small company. It takes them weeks to make a decision on something and expect engineers to turn it around faster. 3. The CS team just directly interacts with engineering for customer help and think this is okay practice. The PMs have not been able to protect the engineering org from spending more time on slack than pushing code 4. There are never any product requirements. I think this isn't on the PMs themselves but we never know exactly what to do in a sprint 5. The new Eng boss seems to have given up. He had great ideas but the ex-consultant CPO runs the engineering team too and I think our SVP knows when things are wrong but can't do anything due to the idiocity of the arrangement

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Convex Response
2y
This is a tough review to read. You're clearly very frustrated and this isn't what you joined for. Some feedback here is well taken. There should always be product requirements for engineers. And while serving customers (including answering questions from CS) is a part of running any business, doing so in a way where engineers can’t find focus time is not okay. Elsewhere, it sounds like we are providing you with insufficient context of why decisions are being made, and it's tough to hear is perceived as bad intentions. We're sorry your experience here isn't what you were looking for and hope things have improved.
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