TriNet could be a household name - Payroll Analyst TriNet Employee Review

1.0
30 Jul 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Passionate people, corporate evangelists preaching the healing powers of TriNet. This is a great place to work, but only in the corporate headquarter location, San Leandro.

Cons

- Destructive Narcissism, - Chaos due to growth, - California "Silicon Valley" mindset, - Premature drive to go public, executive team members "checking out" - No industry experience in the CEO direct team - Multiple org changes due to acquisitions

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TriNet Response
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Thank you for taking the time and sharing your perspective as a long tenured employee. We definitely experienced tremendous growth – and some growing pains. Your input is valuable and helps us focus on what matters. To ensure TriNet’s success and continue our growth, we need everyone to feel empowered and heard. We monitor feedback on Glassdoor and other sites to respond in a timely manner. We care and seek feedback to help us become better. There is absolutely no directive to maintain a certain score and/or ‘adjust’ negative postings. Again, thank you for your dedicated service and for taking the time to let us know how we can improve. We are listening and we wish you the best in all your endeavors.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

There is a path to success if you work really hard and are willing to stick it out for 3-5 years, but you must know how to play the corporate politics game and can't slip, have a little bit of luck, inherit profitable relationships, and prospect and develop new broker relationships. Benefits are good, and the director's I worked under were great people. If you're in your 20's, it's not a bad place to start your sales career and make decent money. Most deals only close if the benefits pricing is favorable, Always found the offsites and team outings fun.

Cons

Highly political environment.   Highly commoditized product. A fair amount of favoritism.  The prospecting infrastructure is horrendous and limiting for even the best hunters. Splits are the devil and cause resentment amongst sales reps. If you're over 30 and looking to build a career here, would recommend you find a different PEO as there is a 90% turnover rate with first year reps and within 3 years most new hire classes are gone. About 10-20% of sales consultants find success, and the variance of new consultants who find success is in the low single digits.  TriNet isn't exactly well positioned in the market and hasn't been for a few years.   Bad blood with clients and prospects due to decisions made a few years ago for short term business gains. The executive directors and upper management come from a different time in the business.  They found success in a completely different way and completely different market that was more beneficial. They lead with a stick and that trickles down.

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