What I wish someone told me - Sales Consultant TriNet Employee Review

2.0
24 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Very very complex sale, which can be a good learning opportunity. Solid base pay. If you can somehow manage to stay in the role for a few years, you are rewarded with inbound leads and aren't as required to split in other reps in your deals.

Cons

Ridiculously high turnover (I was hired with about 30 other sellers. After 1 year, only 5 of us remained). Being skilled at cold calling is essential, since you are a glorified SDR for your first year or two since you won't get inbound leads until you have tenure. If you're not great at cold calling, you will be required to attend networking events after 5pm, while still putting up call number KPIs. Opportunities and meetings are so scarce that managers have immense pressure from regional directors to attend every sales meeting in an attempt to ensure success, which they end up taking over and controlling, so you never actually learn. Also managers want to price deals at the very bottom floor to win by price, which only hurts your commission. ROE is so limiting and you are forced to split in other reps on almost every deal. So much pressure and very little development. All managers do is gossip. You are praised for closing 1 deal in your first 12-18 months, that's how difficult the sale is.

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5.0
20 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, time off, remote working, co workers

Cons

Honestly I don’t have a con

3.0
3 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a path to success if you work really hard and are willing to stick it out for 3-5 years, but you must know how to play the corporate politics game and can't slip, have a little bit of luck, inherit profitable relationships, and prospect and develop new broker relationships. Benefits are good, and the director's I worked under were great people. If you're in your 20's, it's not a bad place to start your sales career and make decent money. Most deals only close if the benefits pricing is favorable, Always found the offsites and team outings fun.

Cons

Highly political environment.   Highly commoditized product. A fair amount of favoritism.  The prospecting infrastructure is horrendous and limiting for even the best hunters. Splits are the devil and cause resentment amongst sales reps. If you're over 30 and looking to build a career here, would recommend you find a different PEO as there is a 90% turnover rate with first year reps and within 3 years most new hire classes are gone. About 10-20% of sales consultants find success, and the variance of new consultants who find success is in the low single digits.  TriNet isn't exactly well positioned in the market and hasn't been for a few years.   Bad blood with clients and prospects due to decisions made a few years ago for short term business gains. The executive directors and upper management come from a different time in the business.  They found success in a completely different way and completely different market that was more beneficial. They lead with a stick and that trickles down.

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