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Former Employee

1.3

Aug 7, 2024

This company has really negative culture with questionable leadership. Mysoginistic and racist remarks by CEO encouraged my departure, along with low pay and shrinking costs in increasingly competitive market. Lack of tools to effectively manage workflows created additional and unnecessary challenges. No remote work option and sales reps are non-exempt employees who were forbidden from working outside of 8-5 or more than 40 hours per week. Avoid this place

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Former Employee

1.7

Dec 5, 2024

Very poor overall business strategy. They want experienced business people to be telemarketers. Very small chance for anyone to realistically make the money they were shown on offer letters. Morale stays low as you can always look at the leaderboard to realize less than 10% of the sales force is remotely close to their goal. With most not even being at 20% of...Read More

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Current Employee

2.9

Oct 19, 2023

A very difficult job. There are good people in leadership here and there, but the system itself fosters unhealthy competition for good leads/accounts. There is no policing for cheating as long as the company makes revenue, which has harmed several reps. I had the highest outbound calls/emails for several months in a row for my region, but without the right accounts,...Read More

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