Please don't do this to yourself if you want to grow your career in Sales - Anonymous employee Skilljar Employee Review

Most negative reviews are too emotional or subjective to believe and take seriously so I will try as much as I can to give you straight facts and would encourage you to ask your hiring manager if you're interviewing for a sales or sales development role to comment on these: 1) Most SDRs haven't met their quotas in 2018-19 due to the poor compensation design and constant change of leadership, etc. 2) None of the Account Executives or SDRs have been promoted in the last 2 years. Those who were up for promotion really deserved it and met/exceeded the quota have been rejected a promotion or ignored until they ended up leaving. Each time the CEO refused to sign off after every executive did. 3) Sales Development team experienced a 100% turnover in 2018-19. That includes SDR management. Same level of turnover has been within sales leadership in the last few years. 4) Sales Development team has not been getting any formal training whatsoever including little to none coaching and product training. 5) The Director of People that was hired and posted responses to the reviews submitted here earlier only lasted a few months and ended up going back to his previous employer. Now, to the subjective part of the review: While working here I kept trying to wrap my head around why the sales development and sales, in general, are treated like a lower class. You can literally see every other team (reasonably) enjoying their time at Skilljar but the sales development has always been the scapegoats and just miserably trying to grind through the day. People have not been able to meet their quotas and get paid the promised OTE month over month only to be told that they're the only reason why. Multiple people have been fired over the last 2 years and when you think that typically the worst employees are being fired it's not the case at Skilljar. All this is accompanied by the fact that there's no chance of professional growth. Every sales development team member has either left or has been fired with little investment into coaching and training on the company's side. While the executives could be honest with themselves and realize that throwing constant change at employees with 0 culture and enablement is not an effective way of managing them and there's no way one can expect the planned results in such an environment but instead, they keep choosing to ignore this or simply get rid of the employees