Great Product, But Not Much Else - Sales Cloudwords Employee Review

1.0
30 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Product has always been great, though the big translation companies have gotten wise and started building and offering their own solutions to compete. -Great downtown location, easy access to BART and transportation. -Good work/life balance. -Travel and Conferences -Free coffee, snacks and beer in the kitchen. -Phone, internet and health care provided. -A few genuinely kind and smart individuals still left (but only because they're fully vested and/or clawed their way to good salaries at this point)

Cons

Where to begin? -Neither of the co-founders work there any more (or the engineering lead who built most of the platform, or about 3/4 of the original staff from any dept) -Nepotism at its finest (the entire executive leadership teams consists of close friends and family. Wives, ex-wives, husbands, ex-husbands, BFFs from another local tech company, etc) -Vast majority if not all of Exec and leadership team got bumped from lower roles once the higher positions had quit or been fired, including the CEO, who was originally a "marketing consultant", then became the head of sales for a month, then magically became the CEO after the latest round of funding. None of the C-Suite has any previous C-level experience to my knowledge. -Reluctance to pay some employees commissions they were owed. -I don't see the company lasting much longer on their thin runway (especially considering the lofty salaries the C-Level and others are being paid). -Many of the 5 star reviews are fake. I know, I've seen them being written. I'd give it 2 stars, but I'm sure there will be a fake 5 star review posted shortly to balance this one out.

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5.0
8 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company pays well for top performers and rewards them handsomely.

Cons

Because the company and business are smaller some reps aren't willing to put in the work. This includes prospecting and traveling. Cloudwords for the time being just doesn't operate like Oracle.

5
1.0
10 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The product at one time was popular in the market. The agnostic aspect of the platform for finding LSPs plus connector capability to all major marketing automation platforms was instrumental to the limited growth that occurred.

Cons

This company refuses to pay employees out on the equity that they purchased after it recently exited. This is illegal and shameful. The founders should be ashamed.

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