Please take this as a warning from a sales person who went through complete navigational hell, and was screwed out of over a hundred thousand in commission.
- The sales leader is the CEO, who has closed around 2 deals in his life. (And lost over 30 at Memgraph, endangering the company)
- There are two sales advisors and one hasn’t sold in years. This same one handles the weekly pipeline calls and whispers in the CEO’s ear to justify his existence, so the sales methodology changes every week. This is why deals constantly fail.
- The SE team is comprised of some of the rudest people I’ve ever met. Anyone not from Croatia is regarded as inferior, with them thinking they know how to sell better than sales (and speaking to sales like garbage, telling them they can’t do their job, all kinds of disrespect). All this and they have never closed a deal, in their lives. Their knowledge is based on the CEO’s broken, ineffective playbook. This is why they fail, but they are confident in the sales mediocrity.
- The centre piece of my review: being screwed out of thousands. A major deal was (finally!) progressing well, and suddenly, the CEO begins to act as if the deal is doomed. Things are looking positive, multiple challenges overcome with solid champions and executive awareness on the deal & benefits of the solution.
I’m wary, especially as I’ve sat over 40 hours of meetings with the potential customer, a lot of which were circa 9-10pm my time.
Then it hits me - probation is coming up. The sales team are all even on the numbers, exact same amount closed. No performance issues mentioned. Surely they wouldn’t cut someone out of a deal about to close for over a million, thus saving themselves a quick $100k payout?
Of course they would. A convenient ‘Redundancy’ strikes, just within the safe spot of probation so I would have difficulty taking it to tribunal, given the extremely suspect circumstances.
And I’m fed the sob story from the CEO about redundancy, that ‘the company may not be here in 6 months, I may be in your seat as well soon’. I am told ‘the board doesn’t feel this deal will close’ when asked about my large deal about to sign. The board were never even involved, which further raised my suspicion of this being a lie.
Leaving here turned out to be a blessing but for anyone looking into this company who is a seller, it’s a nightmare waiting to happen.
Your career will not blossom here, and your commission will likely not be paid. You will be disrespected by obnoxiously mannered solution engineers who feel they are immune to consequences. And then likely have your probation failed before you’re due any decent payout.