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MindTouch, Inc.

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SALES - run for the hills - Anonymous employee MindTouch, Inc. Employee Review

1.0
13 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food 3 days a week, but would have rather starved than spent more time in the office.

Cons

- Toxic environment, hired a joke of a director. Never sold a day of enterprise software in his life. - Horrible, horrible training. - Marketing was very disconnected. -Solution doesn't solve a valuable problems for most companies. A KB will do - Basically a boiler room. - Things may have changed, but regardless, DO NOT sell this product. Seriously. The only two reps hitting quota were purely inbound. Bottom Line: Founder has a cool story - gets a lot of love because of it. The company wasn't started to solve a problem that cost money. It started as open source, which is where is should have stayed. Why? Because the problem it solves doesn't drive value to the department that buys it. What does this mean? No sale. "cough" duh..

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MindTouch, Inc. Response
8y
It's unfortunate you did not have more success during your time at MindTouch. You probably know me enough to know that I take that seriously. However, I get the sense that you did not work in a sales or customer-facing capacity because your feedback is not aligned with the realities experienced by our customers, buyers, or our metrics. MindTouch has hundreds of customers and we renew them at 95% annually while also maintaining negative churn. This means that in spite of losing 5% annually, the remaining customers value our product *so much* they buy more from us and this increased spend more than makes up for those small losses we incur from non-renewal. This is not new, we have maintained these stats for many years (4+). These two metrics (renewal and negative churn) combined with our solid revenue growth irrefutably demonstrates the value of our software and of our really exceptional team in Customer Success. That team is crazy good because they really care about the customer. Moreover, our sales management and sales team repeatedly demonstrate business acumen and a genuine interest in the success of our clients as is evidenced by many of our customer buying from us repeatedly over their careers. Recently, I became aware of one customer champion (buyer) who bought MindTouch at four companies in the last five years! That's remarkable! Not only am I personally proud of the Success and Sales teams at MindTouch their performance and love for serving our clients are represented quantitatively and empirically in every industry metric. That's nice that you think I have "good story"; maybe that means you'll be willing to reach out to me so that we can learn from your experience. I'm most concerned with your description that the environment was "toxic". That's not normally what we hear because we have focused on creating a positive, safe, and fun work culture. I'm interested in your feedback on how we can improve this. Email or call me. Best wishes and please let me (any of us) know if we can be helpful in your career. There's no such thing as an ex-MindToucher; only former, which means we're always available to help.

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This is not a place if you like predictability and keeping to yourself. After years in a bureaucracy, I switched to working at MIndTouch and it was everything I had hoped. Management is supportive, encouraging, and creative. They also trust in their team and allow for much creative initiative and input. It's a job for real grownups who have ironed out their family issues before they walk in the door -- that is, do not come here expecting your hand to be held. You will need to be the type who jumps in and begins contributing positive work and energy from the first day. If you do so, and you treat people with respect, I think you will like it here. The people here are friendly and smart, and truly like each other -- very refreshing. They are growing, so things are a little crowded and chaotic for the time being, but it's more exciting than disconcerting.

Cons

Benefits. Lack of 401K matching and childcare savings accounts gave me pause after having those benefits for so many years. Those things matter to a more experienced work demographic and it will not help when recruiting women and people over 30. The demographic is very young and single which can contribute to a little bit of immaturity in group interactions and choices of group activities, but nothing terrible. An HR officer would be a good addition to smooth things out as the office is getting too big for the C-Suite to manage many operational, staffing, and cultural details.

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MindTouch, Inc. Response
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Great feedback. Thank you.
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