Insulting Pay Combined With Micromanagement - Account Executive SmartBear Employee Review

2.0
Feb 16, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solid products and place to get closing experience... that's about it.

Cons

Pay is so much lower than every other company competing with them. I cannot stress enough how miserable I was during my time there. Day in/ day out - you're baby sat by your managers and chastised for having not made a call by 8:30am. You'd think for a measly 50k/ year salary and unrealistic quota they'd have lesser expectations - but nope! You better be on the phone bright and early or else you'll receive constant slack messages/ calls about why you're not putting in "activity". This goes across the board in terms of performance. You know its bad when you hit presidents club and still want to leave for a company that doesn't view you as disposable and actually values the efforts you put in. They constantly preach how climbable the ladder is there - why do you think that is? EVERYONE LEAVES! This place sucks! They lose talent left and right because folks are overworked/ underpaid/ under-appreciated. Want to take time off? Forget about that. In 1 year I took off 54 hours... and every time i requested it, I had to justify why I needed it - even after I had met or exceeded my commit. Thought I had earned it? This place is such a joke and just hires cheap talent. They can't even pay for you to park your car in the garage. If you want to work at a company with a revolving door and crap pay, SmartBear is the place for you!

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SmartBear Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We strive to provide a positive workplace culture and take your input seriously when creating or updating company policies. When it comes to our unlimited vacation policy or accrued sick time, we use market guidelines to offer competitive options for our employees. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with specific information or suggestions on how we could have done better. Please feel free to send any additional feedback you have to feedback@smartbear.com.

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