Sales Account Manager - Anonymous employee OpenDNS Employee Review

2.0
5 Jun 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Typical Start-up Perks. Snacks, Lunch 3-days/week, Ping-Pong (Seemingly) Lots of Opportunity, and started-off as a very fun place to work.

Cons

Too many Office Politics for a Start-Up Very high-pressure sales environment with no help from Marketing Dept to initiate any warm sales-leads. Lots of cold-calling required to maybe enable Sales Goal Attainment. Cut-throat Sales Environment The CEO is a good guy, but has other people around him that have no idea what they're doing. Nobody in Sales seems to genuinely like the VP of Sales. Coming from one of the 'favorite' employees at OpenDNS: "I cannot believe what happens around me." I am certainly glad I am not working at OpenDNS any longer.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Unique security solution that is easy to implement and rollout. OpenDNS uses big data analytic's from seeing 3-4% of the worlds internet traffic through its 20+ worldwide DNS DC's. It takes this information and is able to predict where threats on the web are: malware, phishing threats, etc.

Cons

CEO is the founder. He was a kid when he started and still is today - young, immature and green. A good hacker but a poor leader. It's key for him to hire the right C levels to execute the vision and strategy. Place has turned into a grind shop - high pressure, micro-managing, high expectations - little reward little recognition... very unbalanced. Company is slow moving - been around for 9 years and is trying to penetrate the Enterprise security market from being a consumer content filtering solution. It's key for him to hire the right C levels to execute the vision - end of the day David U is just a hacker not a leader. Place is turning into a grind factory. High expectations, high pressure from management - low compensation, low reward. Very unbalanced.

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