PlanetScale

Item: PlanetScale
Rating: 3.7
Author: RepVue

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Profile Highlights

Top Company on RepVue!

PlanetScale ranks in the top 20% of all companies on RepVue

High Quota Attainment

PlanetScale quota attainment is better than the industry average

Competitive Salaries

OTE at PlanetScale for Enterprise Account Executives and Mid Market Account Executives is highly competitive compared to industry peers. View salaries

Performance Category Ratings

See how employees rated PlanetScale in RepVue’s key performance categories.

Category Score

Industry Percentile

Industry Rank

Culture and Leadership

2.7

27th%of Software orgs

# 1,672of 2,276 Software orgs

Base Compensation

4.8

99th%of Software orgs

# 12of 2,276 Software orgs

Incentive Compensation Structure

4.2

93rd%of Software orgs

# 148of 2,276 Software orgs

Product - Market Fit

4.1

76th%of Software orgs

# 530of 2,276 Software orgs

Professional Development and Training

2.5

27th%of Software orgs

# 1,679of 2,276 Software orgs

Inbound Lead / Opportunity Flow

3.1

70th%of Software orgs

# 664of 2,276 Software orgs

Diversity and Inclusion

4.6

96th%of Software orgs

# 81of 2,276 Software orgs

About PlanetScale

Greater San Francisco Area

Introducing the Pioneer in Developer-Centric Serverless Databases Our mission is clear: to provide developers with a serverless database platform that caters to their unique needs....More

Percent that Attain Quota?

Goodof team members typically hit their quota

Software Industry Average

40%

Global Average

43%

Salaries

Job Role

Median Base Pay

Median OTE

Top Performer

Mid Market Account ExecutiveSalary data from 4 ratings

Enterprise Account ExecutiveSalary data from 5 ratings

Account ExecutiveSalary data from 5 ratings

Reviews

Former Employee

3.4

Mar 26, 2024

Laid off the entire sales team when everyone was over-attaining. Red flags at the leadership level to not be able to successfully run a company when sales is blowing numbers out of the water.

Useful

Current Employee

2.7

Aug 31, 2023

Unfortunately, there is not much of an Enterprise market for this open source technology bundle (MySQL + Vitess), especially considering that the only deployment mode offered is public cloud and managed by PlanetScale. The really large MySQL shops that require massive scalability want an on-prem option and to be able to manage it themselves if they so desire....Read More

1 Useful

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Anonymous Q&A

Anonymous Sales ProSep 13, 2023

What is the sales culture like at PlanetScale and how does it contribute to the overall work environment?

0 Answers

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Employee Ratings

Total Employee Ratings

Total Ratings

Ratings Verified by RepVue

Verified Ratings

100%

Job Categories

Account Executive

70%

Other

30%

Employee Status

Ratings submitted by current employees

50%

Ratings submitted by former employees

50%

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Frequently Asked Questions

PlanetScale has an overall employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 and a RepVue score of 84.39. They are ranked #401 out of all Software organizations.

Currently it is reported that 42.5% of the reps at PlanetScale are hitting quota.

PlanetScale has a rating of 2.7 out of 5 for culture and leadership. They are ranked #3661 in this category out of 5006 companies.

PlanetScale has a rating of 4.1 out of 5 for Product - Market Fit and is ranked #530 out of 2276 Software companies.

About PlanetScale

Greater San Francisco Area

Introducing the Pioneer in Developer-Centric Serverless Databases Our mission is clear: to provide developers with a serverless database platform that caters to their unique needs....More