It's a grind - Commercial Account Executive Datadog Employee Review

3.0
23 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Brand name in the industry with a great product and support system for reps.

Cons

An absolute grind. They try to weed out reps by handing them accounts that have been worked over repeatedly. They try to see who will survive.

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Datadog Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to leave this review. We're glad you've felt supported in your career growth and success on the Sales team as we continue to scale at a rapid pace. We recognize that this hyper scale comes with growing pains as we break into new markets and work to sell to new logos, but we're passionate about enabling our employees to succeed and have a robust Sales Enablement team and People Business Partners to support our reps to find that success. Thank you again for leaving this feedback as it helps us see what we're doing well and where we have room to improve as an organization.

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