Not what it used to be - Named Account Executive Sisense Employee Review

3.0
26 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

I have met some great co-workers, platform is solid, offices are nice and the people team is great. The people team does a lot of fun activities.

Cons

They make you sign a contract that says they can change your comp plan at anytime and it has twice in less than a year. The sales leadership is driving people out with broken promises, unobtainable quotas and crappy territories unless you are one of the chosen few. It used to be a place were they cared and people could speak up, but now since Covid nobody says anything yet they keep having these ask the CEO anything zoom meetings, a year ago everyone was speaking up nobody held back. with the current leadership on the call that has egos bigger than anyone in tech is covering up everything. Nobody is going to speak up we just leave. If you complain they never do anything so people just leave. The main US guy has his fixers below him that run interference. If you speak up expect to go on a PIP and be micromanaged until you are so miserable you quit. Our office has gone down by over 50%, only a few people were laid off due to Covid so they are desperately hiring anyone that will take a job with zero qualifications and proclaiming we are growing. We are not growing. They can’t even backfill the people quitting. I just quit and was offered significantly more money and you keep raising quota pulling ramps and have territories that are weighted with quotas not reflecting potential.

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Sisense Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. Sisense is undergoing a massive transformation at this time and it’s absolutely understandable that some may not agree with or like too much change at one time. This is why it’s important to communicate any frustrations to your manager. These conversations help bring more clarity to an evolving situation. For example, the right to compensation changes is a term all companies maintain and our sales quotas are one of the lowest in the BI industry. We actually had 40%+ of AE's exceed their quarterly targets in Q1. With that said, I understand that not meeting quotas can lead to feelings of being overwhelmed or even burnout and that is something many Account Executives face in the sales industry and are actively trying to find solutions to lessen the impact of this issue. Remote work for a company like Sisense has been challenging. This can be largely attributed to the fact that our Sisensers thrive off of each other and have very much enjoyed our in-person events. Company wide town halls over zoom make it more challenging to speak up that is true but that hasn’t stopped Sisensers from talking directly with managers or leadership about their concerns and we’re very grateful for that. Turnover is typical for most startup companies like ours and there will always be a few people who weren’t a good fit but we take that as lessons learned and aim to do better the next time around. There are countless examples of individuals we’ve taken a chance on who have exceeded our expectations so we will continue to take the risk from time to time. All in all, you’ve raised some interesting issues that we will further explore internally. Thank you again for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. Respectfully, Jeff Dyer SVP - Sales

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