Don’t fall in to the trap, it’s shocking how they get away with it! - Sales QA Employee Review

1.0
Aug 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Worked with some really great people and nice location in London.

Cons

Very toxic culture, I’ve genuinely never experienced a company that moves the goal posts so frequently. I’ve seen some really talented sales professionals become demotivated and lose the passion for selling due to the attitude and constant bad decisions made by Directors. There seems to be no clear strategy or calculated decision making but rather a trial and error approach at the expense of the sales workforce. Targets are always unrealistic and sometimes even increased mid month to prevent over achieving - god forbid a salesperson earns over 100% OTE. People are frequently underpaid and when this is raised people have to wait until the next month - insane! Not all managers are bad but are generally “yes men” with very little say on what happens or if they do have a voice they tend to “leave the business” soon after.

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QA Response
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Clearly we have some dissatisfied employees in sales in London (we have had a couple of similar reviews with similar issues highlighted over the last week or so) and it is something I have raised with a number of our London sales managers and I will be addressing it with the MDs of each division too. I am always grateful to employees who give honest feedback as it enables us to address problems - and address them we will! Having dissatisfied sales staff is not something we need or want (as you say, it is not a good recipe for growth). I am so sorry that this action has come too late for you. There are some specific points you have made here that I would love to understand more about. We are a large business with lots of sales teams across London and so more details would really help to solve the problem more swiftly. I appreciate that you may not want to do this given you have recently left but if you did want to get in touch you can at mary.sansom@qa.com

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