Growing Pains - Sales Glassdoor Employee Review

4.0
7 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Leadership - Every time you hear our CEO (Robert Hohman) speak you know he passionately believes in our mission and truly cares about employees at Glassdoor. His leadership is what makes GD tick. He practices what he preaches and is as transparent as can be with where the company is heading and what he believes are our biggest challenges are. I have never worked for an organization with a leader as visible and truly committed to the cause as Robert. Colleagues - There are a lot of great people at GD. Since my first day here, people have been extremely friendly and welcoming. Benefits - What you would expect from top tech company in Bay Area.

Cons

Really feels like we are in that awkward in-between stage as a growing company. I definitely don't feel as confident about the business as I did at the beginning of 2015. We have also seen a lot of really great, smart sales people leave the org over the last 6 months and that can be disconcerting for the team. Another challenge is we are first and foremost a consumer site with a mission dedicated to serve job seekers. This doesn't translate as well to our offerings to employers. We regularly work with clients who feel like we are blackmailing them or that GD is a "necessary evil" because of the employee reviews. These can be really hard objections to overcome because we have no control over content. I also think our B2B products are not great. We have not seen anything innovative come through development this year and it feels like the products we do sell are not any different than what our competitors are doing. Results for clients vary greatly and we need to stop selling ourselves as a complete recruiting tool - we do branding really well (soft ROI), but are very inconsistent in helping get direct hires.

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Glassdoor Response
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Thank you so much for your review. Feedback is so crucial to our business, your comments have gone a long way internally! First, we want to thank you for the kind words about Bob, GD benefits and your colleagues. We strive to make work fun, and the people and culture are a huge part of that. Secondly, we want to thank you for the developmental feedback. Yes, you are right, we do have growing pains here! As we bring people on, we try our absolute best to thoroughly vet all new hires, including managers. We hope to keep making improvements to the interview process. Also, we are constantly tweaking product delivery, messaging, and positioning. Your feedback in regards to client performance can help us do better! Please keep sharing. Finally, I invite you to reach out to me or any other member of our leadership internally. :-) Stephanie Jenkins, Director of Account Management

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