Don't Ignore the Reviews Like I Did/Pay Close Attention to the ones Marked "Helpful"
Pros
If you want to consider some snacks and drinks a "pro" fine, they have snacks and drinks. It doesn't even come close to making working there worthwhile. Some would say half day Fridays, but honestly its a scam. You're not really getting a half day, it is just another 4 hours tacked onto a 40 hour week. Do the math if you're in office from 8am-6pm Monday-Thursday you have already hit your 40 hours before you even come in on Friday.
Cons
Management: Management does not care about employees at all, and it all stems from the CEO - he has been heard referring to employees as "dogs who deserve to be beat", and has surrounded himself with people like the CRO who share that disgusting mindset. Not only is management uncaring, they're so clearly inept. Nobody in management is qualified to be in the role they're in, they're simply former sales people who got in at the ground floor. None of them have any prior management experience, and they have no idea how to run a company. The company is hemorrhaging money and was 10s of millions off its financial targets. There is no "go-to-market" strategy, clear organizational structure, or rhyme or reason to anything they do. They refuse to let their employees work hybrid or remote so that they can micromanage sales people and activities. Their only "strategy" is to have employees make an absurd amount of cold calls (over 100 per day), and as that hasn't worked, they frequently raise the activity metrics sales people are expect to hit without any increase in pay. Sexual Harassment: You'll be pleased to know sexual harassment is alive and well at Prometheus Group. No, its not a joke, it really is. This company is the reason almost every other company has those painful onboarding sessions about unwanted advances, inappropriate behavior, etc... Even amongst the C-suite, a high level executive was fired for sexual harassment and sending unwanted explicit texts & pictures. Don't worry though, he was conveniently rehired later as if nobody would ever notice. Lack of Regard For Employee Health & Safety: During the COVID-19 pandemic, they ignored the work-from-home mandates, and when they were caught, the company submitted false claims to the state to try and claim that they were an "essential business", which they are not, to try to continue to force employees to come in. Furthermore they coerced employees who tested positive for COVID to come into office, all while sitting in close-quarters to their colleagues and teammates. Product and Sales Outlook: The sales outlook is extremely bleak. Half the time the "software" you're selling is non-existant, in the production stage, or not software at all. Furthermore, PG doesn't have any standard pricing - they make it up as they go and try to shake down companies for as much money as they can with fake ROI projections, demos, and false promises. Due to this PG has a terrible reputation in the industry and companies simply do not want to work with them. This makes it particularly hard for sales people to actually make a sale, and very few people do. Even if a sales person finds something real or promising, those opportunities are almost immediately stolen and passed on to 1 of 3 reps that have been at the company since the beginning who are apparently excused from doing the same number of activities expected from the rest of the workforce. Even if by some miracle you are able to make a sale commission is only a whopping 3%, and the company has been known to fire people before the sale is officially closed to avoid paying the employee the commission they've earned. Pay and Benefits: Pay is well below industry standard, and the commission rate is terrible (3%). They will try and lure you in with a high OTE, but its ridiculously unrealistic. Most people don't ever manage to make a sale, and not because they're bad at their job, but because they are set up for failure from the moment they walk in the door and anything promising is stolen and given to management or 1 of 3 reps that have just been around forever and do nothing but collect on the hard work of others. Sometimes people are even fired just to pass those opportunities on. The benefits are mediocre at best too. PG doesn't give employees any sick days. If your sick you must use your very limited PTO (10-days), though they strongly encourage you to just come in anyway. They are also super stingy with their holidays, you can expect to be in office Christmas Eve. PTO does not roll over, but don't expect to use up the rest of your hours/days before the end of the year, they will decline any attempt to use up your remaining PTO around the end of the year because they are trying to scrap together any last morsel they can by the end of Q4. Furthermore, parental leave is only 2 weeks (for both mothers and fathers), and it is frowned upon if you actually take it. Hiring/Firing/Promotions: PG exclusively hires new grads for a few reasons: they can pay them and treat them like dirt, they are naive and easy to manipulate, and no experienced sales people would work for a company like this. The company goes on hiring sprees with the mindset that most of the hires will not stay on more than a month or two. They hire 10-20 people at a time with the expectation that maybe 2 will stay on. They also fire people left and right without cause or reason. They've even been heartless enough to fire employees held in high regard by their peers on Christmas Eve (no you don't get it off), shortly after having a child, and as scapegoats for management. I've personally seen them fire people who, by the grace of God, managed to overcome all odds and make a few sales, while promoting people who haven't made a single sale. Even when they do "promote" people they typically do NOT increase their pay, they just give them more work to do and more responsibilities. Trying to Leave: The company even makes cutting ties hard. They have been known to hold on to and refuse to pay commissions. They try to coerce you into signing a non-disparagement agreement by holding on to your last paycheck unless you do. They even sue former employees who leave claiming a breach of non-compete agreements (which they falsify). No, I am not joking, you can look it up, there have been at least 3, and all of them have been thrown out by a judge because of the ridiculousness of the claims and the fake agreements having so many issues that rendered them legally irrelevant. Management will even try to stalk you themselves or through others on LinkedIn to see where you ended up to try and sabotage your future prospects/career. I could go on forever... If you've made it this far, thank you so much for taking the time to read this review. Its my hope that this review will help you avoid the trap that I, and so many others, fell into. I cannot tell you how many former and current employees I've spoken with that have shared the same sentiment "I wish I took the reviews seriously". Prometheus Group is a terrible company with an extremely toxic work environment. Please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere for employment. Don't just take my word for it, read the other reviews and compare them. See what people are saying and take notes of the reviews that are marked helpful. You'll start to get a pretty clear picture of how awful life at Prometheus Group is.
