Red Sift Reviews

Fun company turned into an unstable, constantly changing, horrible blame cultured mess. Senior management with no experience in sales interfered and changed things which resulted in the situation going from bad to worse. The new senior management are shark-like, coming from big companies who don’t understand start-up land very well. Massive churn in sales in just one year. CRO, VP sales, Head of channel and 6 sales people were all axed out, from a team of roughly 9-10..... Whilst the US side literally lost almost everyone in sales from top to down loosing a truely inspirational head. Initially marketing, channel and SDR function was set up to compete against salespeople with no financial incentive to work together - This was eventually changed but it was too late for many sales people by then as pipelines crashed. Toxic management - Entire sales team had indusrty based territories removed, becoming free for all, then territories were reassigned, then people moved around, sales roles were then changed, then territories changed again then salespeople beaten for not performing and many pushed out. All of this in just weeks. The of sales pretends to be your friend to give you a false sense of security then uses it against you to push you out and onto a pip. Due to massive churn, new sales people have little or no support with most having virtually no training on new solutions. As they burned through the investment the leadership became more desperate, stubborn and aggressive with salespeople being the scapegoat.

I shouldn’t have joined only for the compensation. I see now what others mean about the blame culture—it’s definitely here. It feels like no one really cares about your success or development. There’s no real onboarding; you just have to figure things out on your own (I don’t mind this, but every single time?). It’s almost impressive how they let the tech debt grow to such a level. Decisions that affect everyone are made somewhere quietly in the background, no input from us (so much for that startup spirit). The environment feels toxic, with almost no support or encouragement to improve. Honestly, this doesn’t seem like a place for anyone who wants to grow or learn anything new. It’s like they kept the worst parts of a startup but forgot the good ones.