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Room for improvement - Sales Heap Employee Review

1.0
8 Apr 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Health insurance - Meet people who expand your network - An exprience to add to your knowlege of SaaS

Cons

- A VP spreads negtive and false opinionated information in 1:1s with reps about other reps. Ex; [name] isn't smart enough to be good. Ex: [name] doesn't know how to DQ deals. Ex: [name] is entitled and life will teach [him/her] a lesson. Even if these things were true, it is not appropriate for a leader to share with reps due to the impact it has on morale. - Team lacks diversity and new perspectives are retaliated against despite the commpany claiming to value "respectful candor." - Poor treatment of female employees including treatment of pregnant women, inbound lead distribution, and describing any disagreement from women regardless of tone and delivery a sign she's "too emotional." - Queen Bee syndrome in full effect with an individual in power attacking women below her and throwing obstacles to their success in their way while simultaneously trying to take credit for starting a women's charter.

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Heap Response
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Thank you for your feedback. I agree that our Heaple are great additions to anyone’s network, and am glad you are learning about the SaaS industry at Heap. Also, thank you for your hard work and contributions to Heap. However, I am saddened to hear of your experience within our Sales organization. As you mention, Heap’s Values are very important to us as a company. We work tirelessly to live them. That said, living our values is always a work in process. Our values coupled with our commitment to DEI is how we ensure our company is welcoming, inclusive, and fosters advancement for all our Heaple, including women in tech. We have multiple mechanisms in place to ensure we can source (and act on) feedback and ideas from across the company - including our Ask Me Anything (AMA) slack channels, our bi-annual Engagement Survey, our Culture Committee, and our People Partners. The behaviors you describe are absolutely unacceptable. I have neither observed nor received feedback through other sources of such behavior. That said, I will conduct skip level 1:1s to probe the comments you offered in your post. Thank you. If you wish to share any of your experiences or perspectives with me directly, I’d embrace the opportunity. Respectfully, Ken

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The people are the best people you will ever work with. The teams are fun, engaging, intelligent, and just get it. It's unlimited PTO and they mean it, you can take a week off per month as long as you're hitting quota. They have great benefits, fun culture workshops every month, and their internal tools are amazing and make your work super efficient. Some of my favorite mentors came from Heap. The onboarding, enablement, and continuous development is unmatched. They really teach you how to be the best you can be. They don't micromanage. The leadership is motivating and inspiring, but will also call you on your sh!t. You can tell they really care about you as a person. The former CEO, Ken Fine, is the kindest, most intelligent, happiest person I've ever met. I want to work wherever he goes next.

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Honestly, the only con was the fact that they got acquired by Contentsquare. I miss Heap and my team everyday I'm not there. We all had high hopes in the beginning, but then they laid off some of our best leaders to keep some of their worst. It was like seeing this beautiful ship you've built with all your best friends and mentors get slowly set afire and torn to pieces by the cannons of disorganization launched by CS. It's not any one person's fault that this happened. I think the biggest disappointment was CS's lack of enablement, professional development, cross-team collaboration, and occasional poor quality of hires. I wanted a lifelong career at Heap. I had plans to work there for years, maybe even decades if I could. But that all went down the drain when they got acquired. Everything changed, promotions got put on hold, morale was lost, processes were delayed, teams were reshuffled, and the best employees were let go. I eventually had to take a role somewhere else because I wanted more career development that Heap promised, but CS did not.

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3.0
15 Apr 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Seemingly fun culture and a good group of people.

Cons

Lack of direction. Leadership and vision are weak.

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