Hypocritical management and low morale - Anonymous employee TriNet Employee Review

2.0
30 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The education reimbursement benefit is quite generous.

Cons

You'll notice that all the glowing reviews come from people in sales positions. That's because any other role is considered second-class. When Trinet had their yearly 'all-hands' conference soon after acquiring another PEO, only the sales people were invited - while there, the attendees were encouraged to work together to create their new culture, but since only sales people were invited, only sales voices were valued enough to give input. How incredibly telling.

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TriNet Response
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Thank you for providing feedback on your work experience at TriNet. We’ll make sure that your comments are shared with the appropriate departments. We know that all of our employees, from every organization, are critical to the success of TriNet. It is only through feedback like yours that we can identify issues and work to improve the experience for our staff. We do have to correct one point you made- every TriNet colleague is invited to every all hands meeting, period. And in fact they are expected to attend. If you are referring to our yearly sales kick off conference then yes, it focuses on sales. However, many non-sales personnel from TriNet attend to lend their subject matter expertise for sales training. Thanks again for taking the time to help us make TriNet a better company for everyone.

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Cons

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There is a path to success if you work really hard and are willing to stick it out for 3-5 years, but you must know how to play the corporate politics game and can't slip, have a little bit of luck, inherit profitable relationships, and prospect and develop new broker relationships. Benefits are good, and the director's I worked under were great people. If you're in your 20's, it's not a bad place to start your sales career and make decent money. Most deals only close if the benefits pricing is favorable, Always found the offsites and team outings fun.

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Highly political environment.   Highly commoditized product. A fair amount of favoritism.  The prospecting infrastructure is horrendous and limiting for even the best hunters. Splits are the devil and cause resentment amongst sales reps. If you're over 30 and looking to build a career here, would recommend you find a different PEO as there is a 90% turnover rate with first year reps and within 3 years most new hire classes are gone. About 10-20% of sales consultants find success, and the variance of new consultants who find success is in the low single digits.  TriNet isn't exactly well positioned in the market and hasn't been for a few years.   Bad blood with clients and prospects due to decisions made a few years ago for short term business gains. The executive directors and upper management come from a different time in the business.  They found success in a completely different way and completely different market that was more beneficial. They lead with a stick and that trickles down.

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