"Mean girls" sales management - Account Executive SAP Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

SAP field sales reps can make significant money. I've known several reps who made $2m in one year.

Cons

SAP Sales Management promotes a "mean girl" culture. If you're in the clique, you get assigned wonderful opportunities and can make significant money. If you're not in the clique, you get to create new opportunities on your own, but it's best to hide them from the head of sales of your group/. The head of the clique can not wait to reassign that opportunity and income to one of her followers. If you're talent is to be 90% inwardly focused on internal politics and currying favor from internal power brokers, this is an ideal environment. If you're 90% customer focused, watch your back.

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