Let me save you from the great and spacious building... - Sales Development Representative (SDR) Podium Employee Review

1.0
25 Mar 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free drinks?... 🤷‍♂️ A Cool location

Cons

Where to begin... - It is all about numbers. Numbers over everything. -Every month is some whole new transformation to how they want to role things out. Be prepared to have things turn upside down in the blink of an eye. -Numbers... not employees. -Unlimited pto is a trap and totally unattainable. Only the very few top guys can get there once they hit quota. A great question to ask in your interview if you have one–"what % of SDRs/AEs hit their quota last month?" Ask for the most recent months or else they will give you outdated numbers from a totally different setup. -The org as a whole is lacking in company values–or they just do not care to implement them. -Brodium for sure. If you are looking for summer sales in an office, this is it. I think I made more money in summer sales though... -Pay is not good unless you are a top performer. You can only really make any decent money if you are consistently hitting quota every month and even then it's too low. -Resources to perform well... HA. Negative. "go on to google maps and call this business... DIALS DIALS DIALS let's gooooo!" -Training... "figure it out" mentality, ppl will say they are there to help... really difficult to actually ge that time/help.

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