So much process that deals can’t get done - Account Director LinkedIn Employee Review

1.0
15 Nov 2021
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Pros

Benefits, strong products, great internal tool for creating presentation slides, strong first line leaders

Cons

Do you like selling? LinkedIn would rather you spend 90% of your time fighting internally to get order forms created than hustling to create new pipeline. Do you like tickets? You’ll be creating and responding to tickets from 9am to 8pm each and every day. The process is out of control. It’s is incomprehensible how hard it is to get pricing and a final order form. Something that should take 15 mins takes 3-7 days because rep autonomy & access has been taken away. There has been so much change that it’s causing mental health issues for the majority in Enterprise Sales. Executive leadership clearly thinks our products sell themselves. We’ve moved our post sale customer support model to self serve. This puts insane pressure on the AD’s to find ways to help our customers, yet we don’t have full access to their accounts. I cannot recommend making a career change into LinkedIn sales with so many issues standing in the way of helping your would be customers.

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