Wouldnt recommend for sales/tech/pre sales roles - Anonymous employee Okta Employee Review

1.0
2 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great product, should see organic growth in next two plus years for non US region.

Cons

-Boiler room sales environment - sales reps deal with an extreme amount of pressure to perform despite hitting your target being realistically unachievable. -As is common in a lot of average companies, the proposed solution to low sales performance is to add more reps and shrink territories. Unsurprisingly this didnt work and saw mass exodus of reps. -Inexperienced and robotic "yes man" management who would rather see heads roll than stand up, communicate what is right and implement meaningful change. -Average tenure of employee 1.2 years, large amount of churn -Devoid of company culture - no guiding principles or culture code -Experienced a large lack of trust from managers to direct reports which resulted in micro management style -Pretty shocking communication from sales managers which included a lot expletives and threats of dismissal to whole team around end of quarter, despite lack of support during months prior -Quite political

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Cons

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Pros

Good company benefits - private healthcare, employee stock purchase programme Annual sales kickoff

Cons

All calls & emails are now monitored. Graded & tracked on your calls. New requirement is now to have 50+ calls a month recorded in Gong (Gong was previously phased out but now a requirement). Pay rises are low, false promises each year of promotions & generous pay rises Team members favoured over others Work life balance now near on impossible with all the new asks put in place

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