Startup Adviser - Sales Executive Web Summit Employee Review

1.0
15 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work environment, free beer, free pizza, cool people to work with.

Cons

Web Summit offers one of lowest salaries in the industry. If you equate it with the number of hours you work, it barely reaches minimum wage (Ireland). Its clearly written in the contract that there is no additional allowance for working offhours or additional hours. They still manage to get good employees by promising them great industry contacts through their events which is partial true. Its like the biggest perk of joining Web Summit, is attending their events. And they seldom pay commission for sales related jobs. May be that the reason employee retention rate is quite low. I remember around 75% of people who joined same time as me, have left the company within a year.

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Pros

the events and the people are great.

Cons

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17 Mar 2026
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Pros

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Cons

It's a boys club, and many of the propaganda spewed by the CEO is to use managers as tokens of diversity. Managers are ill-prepared, and will eventually push you out - no matter how well you perform. You will go far if you are a rule follower, but that's about it. The role is one of a call center - you are expected to take on 15-18 meetings a day for 20 minutes each only to be at the bottom of the company. Do not expect to be taken seriously if you are apart of the Startups team. Also, tenure in the company supersedes results.

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