Sales engineer - Sales Perspectium Employee Review

1.0
2 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It was a remote job.

Cons

1) Terrible leadership. They whipped the prices out of thin air. Every prospective company said it was about 3x too expensive. They also hired a sales manager for team with only one “Senior Sales Executive”. All the dude did was micromanage everything I did, or even worse, would reach out directly to the prospects to set pointless meetings that went nowhere. 2) the law firm Perspectium used was beyond delusional. They would tell massive megacorporations they needed to sign our NDA! Psychotic levels of entitlement that led to losing any prospect who was open to paying our exorbitant prices. 3) The base pay was terrible! And the commission was truly a joke. The commission rate was the exact same I would earn by referring a deal to another company under the Idera umbrella. Read that again… they would literally pay me the same whether I worked a deal from start to finish or if I sent one to another Idera company. And that commission rate was garbage. At least a quarter the national average. The renewals rep got paid the same, and that was for simple renewals!!!! Disgusting.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
7 Jan 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Some really awesome individuals work here. At times, it can almost feel like you're working with friends. The company still has that tech startup feel (ie. snacks, special events, etc).

Cons

Compensation: I would not say the pay is competitive. I left my position after two years and got a $20k increase for a similar position at another, more established, company. Work/life balance (or lack thereof): I worked a Support role, which required occasional on-call/overtime work. At least California employees were compensated for that. But from what I've seen with several other roles in the company is that you're often expected to work outside of your usual shift. Structure (or lack thereof): As seen with many startups, you're expected to do some things that may be outside of your role (ie. Support takes on some implementation work, Dev jumping on Support calls, etc). Fair enough. But this is a company that has been in business since 2013. Internal processes need to better defined or improved.

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