Just horrific- started out of college - Sales Meltwater Employee Review

1.0
Mar 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Hardly any. My first manager was great though and I continue to stay in touch with her. Also closing days are great if your on quota.

Cons

I don’t think I could say enough in this section. First of all the managing director played favorites more than anyone I have ever seen. She would call out people for messing up out loud in front everyone but yet when one of her “favorites” would literally do the exact same thing she ignored it and never said a lick of anything. Management is incredibly unprofessional as they dislike when any of the sales consultants share their opinion or, god forbid, disagree with anything they say. This company preys on newly graduated recruits who don’t know what it’s like to have a first full time job by working them to death and not allowing them to have personal lives. The quotas are set unreasonably high and if the office is not on quota, the directors doesn’t know how to handle it. They freak out by blaming their teams for not working hard enough even though each person is prospecting until 11pm every night. I would be weary of any ambiguous 5 star reviews for this company as when I was there we directed to go to this website and leave a good review to artificially boost their score to attract more unknowing candidates. You might have the opportunity to make a lot of money but make no mistake, this company is absolutely horrible. I worked in a relatively small office and very soon after starting a total of 10 people left in my office alone and were replaced. The turnover here is ridiculous and they literally have meetings year after year to figure out how to keep more employees. In order to explain this turnover to any new employees they tell them that those people just didn’t want to work or were lazy which couldn’t have been more incorrect. There were tons of people that left that had stellar sales records and worked incredibly hard; they just hated the company and how it took over their lives. On top of all of the stress of trying to sell enough product each month to hit high quotas the directors micromanage to a ridiculous degree. All of the sales consultants and sales success staff accurately described it as a “big brother” atmosphere. Also, the upper management surround themselves with “yes men” and “yes women” as they are so absorbed in their own opinions on how to run things they are not open to hearing ideas their employees have. This is a terrible quality for any leader to have. Leaving this company was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

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Meltwater Response
6y
Thanks for your review and sorry that you feel this way about your time at Meltwater. Across our 20+ offices in the US, I cannot speak to every Managing Director's management style, but we do invest a lot in our managers so that they can successfully lead teams and develop their teams. What you've described is not consistent with our values or the culture we want to build. We can always improve in these areas, so thanks for your feedback.

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Meltwater Response
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Pros

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Cons

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