Not the same company I originally joined - Account Executive Paylocity Employee Review

2.0
13 Nov 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

As a salesperson, Paylocity is a good product to sell. Better than most of the competition. Top level leadership is great. I love the vision of Steve Beauchamp and Mike Haske.

Cons

This is specific to sales. The culture has really turned into a micromanaging culture. Tracking how many hours per week you are on the phone (you're supposed to have 8). They hired quality assurance people to literally call our meetings and see if they were real meetings. The did this under the guise of it being a "post-meeting survey." When these micromanagey initiatives were rolled out, leadership pitched it like it was something that would be helping us. "Now you can see how you are tracking to 8 hours per week you on the phone! It'll be great! We're going to give away Apple Watches for good activity, so we're hiring quality assurance people to call a statistically significant number of your meetings to confirm!" We're not stupid, I can see what is going on. I felt like I spent literally half my working hours logging various activity into an outdated, difficult to navigate CRM system. I wouldn't have cared if they chose Salesforce, hubspot, oracle, whatever. At least use a CRM system you pay for rather than something that's free. People who hit quota in the past year or even literally just got back from President's club were put on performance plan because they didn't hit the unrealistic activity metrics. So therefore you just put in fake numbers and hope QA didn't call those meetings. Compensation. How does someone working in NYC or SF make the same salary as someone in a place like Arizona? Competitors offering much more lucrative comp packages.

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Paylocity Response
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Hi, and thank you very much for providing your feedback. I am happy to hear you believe in the vision of our top level leaders. I am, however, disappointed to hear that you believe our sales culture is not as positive as it used to be. I apologize if the new initiatives regarding tracking calls and quality assurance were not communicated clearly. These initiatives truly were put in place to assist the account executive in becoming more successful, as well as support the customer’s needs and wants in a more fluid way. I also appreciate your feedback on our compensation in the specific areas you mentioned. We take pride in the structure and culture we have created but genuinely appreciate feedback as it allows us to review all aspects of our processes and structure for greater growth. If you would like to speak more in depth I would be happy to discuss further, and can be reached at KGrimaldi@paylocity.com

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