Good place to start your career as a means to build your resume and move on to something more promising and secure - Anonymous employee Softchoice Employee Review

2.0
20 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Valuable training program in the first month (Sales) Plenty of food to enjoy. Public transportation subsidy. Decent culture.

Cons

Extremely high turnover rate: The company is hiring an alarming amount of people every month to join their sales team. for every 20 people they are hiring, about 5-6 of those people remain with the company long term. Working in such an environment where people are quitting or being fired at a moments notice can be very discouraging and brings on unnecessary stress on you as job security is virtually non existent. Favoritism: Favoritism will exist in every work environment that you are in, this simply is a fact. However the levels at which it exists at this place is borderline unethical. Management will be very quick to choose their favourite new hires and will provide them with far more attention and assistance compared to everyone else. Tenured staff members are also known to align with select new hires and provide them with leads and unfair advantages, leaving others at a disadvantage to meet the same quotas. If you are disliked by management or simply do not fit their "mold", steps will be taken to have you fired rather quickly, and if you are someone who falls in the middle you are left to fend for yourself and figure everything out on your own. Compensation: For most sales position, the base salary is far below industry standards. If you are lucky enough to sell something, the commission does not take into effect until your 5th month of employment or once you have been deployed.

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Softchoice Response
9y
Thank you for your thoughtful review. You’re right, we are hiring a lot of sales people. We’re in serious growth mode and the reality is that we can’t get enough good people in the door! As you indicate we have a very rigorous and intensive training program for all new sales hires. For many, this program is like getting a degree in 4 months and we realize this is not for everyone. Our managers are coached to help all of our new hires ramp up quickly. Compensation and total rewards are based on performance. Our success as a company is based on our level of commitment to our people and the passion they have for the work that they do. We agree that Softchoice is a great place to start and develop a career in a constantly changing and challenging industry.

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Great company culture and great place to work.

Cons

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Softchoice Response
1mo
Thanks for your review and for recognizing our excellent culture! We're thrilled you've had a positive experience on our team.
1.0
26 June 2026
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Pros

Remote work Recently acquired by WWT

Cons

What they tell you the role is definitely is NOT what it is. How they deceive you into taking this role is unethical. They promise you inbound and warm leads and claim to be the preferred AWS Partner but AWS doesn't want to deal with us at all because we don't have the technical staff qualified to support their customers. When we acquire AWS customers they wind up having a bad experience and Softchoice has a really bad reputation internally at AWS. They target ex AWS employees because they are already certified & they already have contacts. Meanwhile all the managers are not even certified, which means they don't know the content and can't talk with AWS Leaders effectively. There's favoritism so some people are forced to call nonstop and send emails but the people with sales don't do that. To cover it up, they just started having those people make calls but several months of records tell a different story. Management is extremely inexperienced and underpaid so they have side businessss and podcasts.

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