Unrealistic goals hurt BDRs - Business Development Representative (BDR) BambooHR Employee Review

1.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The hybrid schedule was nice

Cons

I was there for 6 months. I'm not bad at my job. BambooHR's team for Business Development Representatives (The people who set up appointments for the AE's to sell). Politics is a huge aspect in this position, Also the dream for them was to have like 60 BDR's which ultimately and not enough bandwidth to support that level of workforce. The majority of the BDR's there struggle to hit, because management gives irresponsible goals to satisfy the Finance department. Trust the BDR's hate what's going on, Many have quit, and many are on PIP's because management is throwing goals that cannot be achieved at this org's current level. Toxic managers, great people, but when it comes to the paycheck they can be pretty nasty to people behind their backs. Same thing with the director of bdr's and sdr's. Will say genuine sounding things only to stick it you when your backs turned. Add the pay into this, and since almost none of the BDR's around (15-20) of us where hitting our accelerators and that's a huge deal, the competition we have with other companies coupled with the pay you get makes this job not worth it. If you're an AE you would be better off, and don't consider being an SDR, you will be making pennies.

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1.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

If you’re complacent with being told what to do and are OK with the pay, you will be OK working here

Cons

There might not be enough space for what I have to say. Management is full of narcissist. Little to no accountability or responsibility from management. Management job is supposed to be helping the team and supporting them and learning the job which they extremely lack in. If you are OK with having someone tell you how to do your job that doesn’t know how to do your job then, you’re in luck. When the team was failing to hit quota, their solution was to keep it the same while calling the BDR‘s complacent. Management also failed to recognize that reps were obtaining quota only through going to events. A work colleague of mine gave feedback in a meeting and was later criticized for providing feedback. After that meeting, he was told not to speak up in a meeting like that. Yet they say they welcome feedback. Management finds time to do things that don’t benefit the team or add extra task to their plate. The organization also loves pointless meetings that can be summarized in two short sentences. My last piece is that the team has a mutual feeling about management and suckers up to them because they are playing the . Bamboo fails to recognize their weaknesses and if they managed to succeed, I would be impressed with how it’s been ran.

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