Pros
SDR role - Good job to get your foot in the door and gain experience. - Acquire business acumen to propel you forward in your career - Good pay and benefits - Decent support from sales coaches Other department role - There are some opportunities to grow out of sales into other departments - Chances to earn your place and get promoted fairly quickly - The goals and vision of the company are good for the environment, and I truly believe that - Rewards people who want to go above and beyond
Cons
SDR role - Mentally exhausting - Quotas are too strict (but needed to weed out underperforming employees) - Micromanaged - Plenty of rejection by prospects - "Hunter" mindset. Common phrases are "Keep grinding!", "Hustle!", "Let's do this!!" Other department role - Upper management is hypocritical and frustrating to work with. There were multiple instances where they spoke harshly and unprofessionally to others and treated their direct reports poorly. - My women coworkers often felt discriminated against due to their sex by upper management. If they disagreed and explained their disagreements in a professional manner, they were described as "emotional" and "irritable", and were placed on leadership-improvement plans and were threatened with being demoted. Meanwhile, none of the male leaders who speak harshly and rudely were ever placed on such plans. - A project my team spent a year and a half on was rescheduled multiple times. It eventually had final approval to be launched, but was cancelled with no explanation given for 2 weeks by the CEO. Talk about killing the morale of a team Misc. - Culture is forced