GovSpend Reviews

Huge pyramid scheme. The commission is set up for SOCOM managers best friends and their wives to pocket all of the commission while crumbs are spread to the hard working sales floor. In 18 months with GovSpend my manager and VP never had a single one-on-one conversation with me about performance, metrics, improvement, coaching, etc. Brokers are given free ranch to take advantage of their mini teams - Brokers will not participate in a deal yet demand and take 33-50% of the available commission. Quite absurd... Management just does not care if you are not 'in'. If you are not in the political circle you will never make over $60k here - Guaranteed. They will lie to you hardcore about earnings. - PTO Accrues slowly (only 10 days per year) and management will sarcastically / subtly give you a hard time about using it. I was told 'Some managers have not taken vacations in 4 years'. No 401k match No subsidized insurance No professional development

Morale was low given all of the changes made by management to cut pay even more than it already was. And this was all before COVID even was a thing. I believe the chance of selling the company has passed. Renewals have not been supporting the company anymore since we can't collect on them because of COVID. Also, the "University" business the management all got on board with is an example of how ridiculous these changes are and how nepotism creates poor decisions of people who can't tell their uncle to tone it down. Who is actually buying into this? My old colleague still left there joke about their own product being empty! The truth is, we were taught and trained to distort our facts to customers. It starts at the top of the whole company and weaves it's way down to become the culture. It started with the CEO and the rest of the management. For example our co-founder was caught up in the news doing some very unsavory things to basically populate our database. A few people at the office had known some details and it explains a lot of about the secrecy of the management, of swift changes and firings that occur for those who don't drink the company kool aid. I remember once thinking it couldn't be true when I was drinking it. But looking back, I think, it was just the tip of the iceberg. There exists a fraternity of "insiders" who internally push and punish people who don't work hard. People in leadership roles who are married or related, or go to the same church. That's never a good idea for a business. They manipulated employees to accept no match on the 401k because we are in "growth mode". They laid off employees to try to get out of the red and blame performance when it was much more political than that. Everyone says how so and so has never taken a vacation since the company started, but all you hear is that this guy is more into making videos to promote himself and watching ESPN and chitchatting on his own brand. Hindsight says we were gaslighted and manipulated to believe this was a dream but man were we mistaken.