Before I get into my reasons for my one star review, I want it to be known that I started as an account executive with two other new hires and I was the one who ended up working there the longest. I worked there for two and a half weeks.
Barn2Door is run by a husband (COO) and wife (CEO) and from the surface it seems like an exciting startup with a noble purpose of empowering farmers. However, after a week of useless training that focuses on the company instead of your actual day-to-day duties, you realize the company is run by horrible people who actively set you up to fail.
With about an hour of training on the cold call script under our belt, the other new reps and I were put on the phones to try to secure demos with farmers in our territories. When our leads were given to us, we were told we were getting the worst leads and will get better leads once we finish these. After calling disconnected numbers and out of business farms for a week, we obviously weren’t securing many demos. By the end of our first week on the phones the COO fired one rep for not getting demos in their first two days and the other left because it was such a horrible job. I was fired the next week despite having two potential sales lined up from my first week on the phones.
I didn’t interact with the CEO often, so I can’t speak about her much. However, the COO is the worst manager I have experienced in my time in the workforce. He is a very self-important and pretentious person who has new clue how to manage people, let alone communicate without angrily berating them. His solution for every single problem is firing somebody. No extra training, no warning, no punishment. Straight to firing.
The management leads to a toxic culture and new hires are set up to fail with horrible leads and impossible goals. I would highly advise anybody considering applying to avoid Barn2Door if they want to work for a company for longer than a few weeks.
