What are sales commissions like at Park Place Technologies?

Friendly people on the salesfloor.

Working on the sales floor has been a frustrating and demotivating experience due to ongoing issues with leadership and structure. Micromanagement is a constant problem. Instead of allowing sales staff to actually sell and manage their own pipeline, there is excessive monitoring of daily activity and constant second-guessing of decisions. This creates pressure, slows performance, and makes it difficult to build confidence or autonomy in the role. There also appears to be poor judgment when it comes to promotions into team lead and director-level roles. In several cases, individuals seem to be placed into senior positions without the necessary experience or capability to effectively support a high-pressure sales environment. This has had a noticeable negative impact on morale and consistency across the team. There are also ongoing workplace concerns and rumours circulating among staff regarding sexual inappropriate behaviour at senior levels and obvious use of substances. On top of this, the compensation structure is disappointing. The base salary is low and the commission scheme is poorly designed.

Good salary and commission, Manager was good, friendly environment

Work load was more ,No fix time for work

It’s a great starter job out of college.

Park place was fun originally. The training program was great, but once I was promoted, there was not a day I wasn’t stressed. I am a high performer and a top rep but sales in general is treated like a middle school. Every second of every day you are watched. They record your phone calls, your conference calls, look at your emails, the big brother feeling is real. That isn’t even the worst part. They always say they are a “people first” company but that is far from the case. Our commissions have been messed up since July of last year. Many of us are owed thousands of dollars but can’t do anything about it. They’ve implemented a Small medium business team and have talked away over 300-500 accounts from each rep. Now we are merging with a large competitor and they are only taking more accounts from us and promoting them when they haven’t even earned their stripes…. The best part is, your quota still raises 20% each year! They expect you to do more with less and then will tell you that you aren’t performing because your “activity is low”. The only way Park Place is a good company is if you stroke managements ego and get under their wing. I’ve seen so many underqualified people get promoted over overly qualified people because of friendships…. They also don’t factor in the difference between territories and those with horrible territories are set up for failure. Lastly…. You can make good money if you grind from a commission perspective but the salary is a joke. There haven’t been raises in YEARS… plus they find ways to get you to make less in commission every year by revising the commission plan. There is no opportunity for growth other than a title change. You don’t get added responsibility or a higher pay…

It’s a great starter job out of college.

Park place was fun originally. The training program was great, but once I was promoted, there was not a day I wasn’t stressed. I am a high performer and a top rep but sales in general is treated like a middle school. Every second of every day you are watched. They record your phone calls, your conference calls, look at your emails, the big brother feeling is real. That isn’t even the worst part. They always say they are a “people first” company but that is far from the case. Our commissions have been messed up since July of last year. Many of us are owed thousands of dollars but can’t do anything about it. They’ve implemented a Small medium business team and have talked away over 300-500 accounts from each rep. Now we are merging with a large competitor and they are only taking more accounts from us and promoting them when they haven’t even earned their stripes…. The best part is, your quota still raises 20% each year! They expect you to do more with less and then will tell you that you aren’t performing because your “activity is low”. The only way Park Place is a good company is if you stroke managements ego and get under their wing. I’ve seen so many underqualified people get promoted over overly qualified people because of friendships…. They also don’t factor in the difference between territories and those with horrible territories are set up for failure. Lastly…. You can make good money if you grind from a commission perspective but the salary is a joke. There haven’t been raises in YEARS… plus they find ways to get you to make less in commission every year by revising the commission plan. There is no opportunity for growth other than a title change. You don’t get added responsibility or a higher pay…

Great career opportunity at the company

Stressful environment, target oriented and hardly commission reach

Great culture Motivating envrionment A lot of upside in career

Low starting salary Mostly compensated on commission