Huddle

From BAD to WORSE - Sales Huddle Employee Review

2.0

5 Nov 2014

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Pros

Huddle had a great team in place in early 2013, however due to changes in the management team and C-levels not having the business knowledge to make educated decisions most of SF office was gone by the end of 2013. They have tried since to re- build their team and gave a promotion to a sales leader that was not respected throughout the organization (in fact when it was announced in an all hands meeting not one person clapped). I gave the review 2 stars instead of 1 because despite all of the commotion through 2013-2014 I was able to meet my revenue goals because I stayed focused and did not let the commotion derail me. Make sure to do your due diligence before joining this company... data storage is now FREE!

Cons

With just a few US reps left in place in early 2014 they brought in a new leader who looked us all in the eyes on day one and said "don't worry I am not here to hire a new team", even though from day one they were already interviewing candidates (who have ZERO experience in tech sales). The rest of the US team was let go shortly after (with full pipelines and making monthly goals) HUGE MISTAKE. Huddle has had a BAD 2014, missed all revenue targets and somehow has gotten some funding. We had asked that our compensation be looked at and revamped for 2014, they promised they would re-asses the plans and make them competitive. The changes they made took money directly out of every-single sales reps pockets as well as the base pay is $20k+ below market rate. We pushed back (as a team) and they forced us to sign or not get paid.

Huddle Response

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Thanks for your comments. We have made some significant changes to our sales team as we increased our focus on enterprise customers. 7 of our biggest 10 deals ever happened in 2014. We have brought in some highly experienced sales people as we have increased the targets to suit enterprise deals. Ultimately, this has meant it's not right for all of our previous salespeople and we will process your feedback on how this was communicated. We're pleased to announce our D round funding of $51m which will help to grow our sales and marketing, as well as growing our product and engineering team. Huddle's focus will continue to be on team collaboration and not data storage. We do concur with your comment that data storage is now seen very much as a commodity. This differential gives us a real edge on our closest competitors.

From BAD to WORSE - Sales Huddle Employee Review

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