Sales is old and out of touch - Account Executive OpenTable Employee Review

1.0
Mar 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Fantastic co-workers, lots of great talent across most departments - Decent benefits - Potential to travel for the job

Cons

- Culture is very stiff. This is by no means a hip tech company. They work at this though. - Old technology. Staff laptops for sales are cheap PCs and old iPads (no 3G/4G). Technology is pretty dated on the customer side as well, the only thing that keeps the company at the top of the market is its network of users and restaurants. - Constant change. Within a few months of bringing me on they essentially decided to restructure the sales org. Bonuses were slashed and the commission structure was changed for the worse.

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Cons

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