ReadyTalk will win if it can rediscover its fire - Account Executive ReadyTalk Employee Review

4.0
4 Feb 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Excellent work/life balance - Benefits (health insurance, allotment for race entry fees, etc.) are solid - Fierce Conversations workshops and personality assessment training sessions help you grow personally, are interesting and can be impactful to employees and their interactions internally and externally. - If you're willing to take the initiative, you'll have the opportunity to take on tasks that are outside of your job description. It's unlikely you'll be told not to take initiative if you have a compelling reason for the impact it may have. - ReadyTalk partners with industry leaders, which brings credibility in many 'difficult to differentiate' scenarios - Many systems and processes in place that are effective and help you do your job effectively. - Cultural interview process does a very good job of bringing in the right people into the organization, with very few misses.

Cons

- Limited opportunity to advance your career beyond current role due to flat organizational structure - ReadyTalk is in a very competitive space, so differentiation in the market can be a challenge. - While you will have the opportunity to take initiative (see Pros above), it can be a challenge to have this introduce real change into the organization.

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5.0
14 Jul 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Freindly folks and a relaxed vibe

Cons

None that I can think of

3.0
26 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

ReadyTalk seems to be a lifestyle company - as evidenced by the fact that 4/5 senior leaders founded the company 13 years ago and are still around. Health benefits are 100% paid for employees and their families. The company spends a LOT of money on perks - covering race entry fees, tons of groceries, kegs in the kitchen, random swag. It'd be easy to be a lifer - provided you're comfortable just doing the same thing for years and getting just a COLA+ salary adjustment year over year.

Cons

See above - this is a lifestyle company. If you have a lot of ambition or want to see your career develop, you will probably have to leave. The Execs have been running the show for years and don't seem to have any succession plan in place. Sure, the CEO is super healthy and fit, but when he said last year that his exit strategy was death.... what does that mean for the rest of his 180 employees? The corporate strategy and product roadmap seem to change with the wind, which can be frustrating and unempowering. Management and HR push a lot of books on strategy and respecting and developing people, but it's not consistently practiced by the most senior executives. "Professional development" is pretty well a joke, and performance evaluations don't exist. There's very little incentive to be a top performer.

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