Sales Assembly Reviews

Key concerning indicators - 1. Turnover - in a 10-15 person company, 7 people left the business during my tenure 2. DEI efforts - external commitment to diversity doesn't match executive leadership team or internal efforts 3. Career development - for a company that offers a training "product", there are zero career development opportunities for internal employees 4. Pay - overpromised on compensation expectations and underdelivered significantly. Consistently used the excuse "we're a small company with a lot of moving pieces" when the ball was dropped on paying commission 5. Product - the product isn't sustainable and they are profiting off other people's time and intellectual property when asking other people to train their members 6. Shiny objection syndrome - Struggled to have patience with the team members they brought on board to execute high level strategy, constantly changed direction without seeing any efforts come to fruition 7. Gaslighting - the fact that I ended up creating a 17 page word document to serve as my "journal" while I worked there is a concern on it's own. You are promised you have autonomy and can act on your own accord but are constantly met with defensiveness, backhanded comments, and blame for when obstacles arise 8. Communication - with a small company you'd think communication would be easy. Think again. You are promised you are part of a team and are "building the business with them" but almost all decisions are made behind closed doors and only communicated to the team after changes have been made. If they give you the opportunity to collaborate on an idea together, it'll get lost on the priority list because the exec team will have come up with new ideas by then 9. Executive Leadership - LinkedIn versus the reality of how they lead is vastly different. Don't take public perception as truth to how they operate 10. Sanity - it's tough to do your best work and bring your whole self to work when you are subject to working in a toxic environment

Working here, you are basically guaranteed to leave one way or another. Don't plan on staying for a long time! You are expected to perform against unfeasible and unclear expectations, condescended about the work you produce from senior leadership, and silenced. That last piece is key and why it has been exceptionally eye-opening to read other reviews from employees who shared similar awful experiences. It's intimidating to speak up given that it's such a small company, especially after seeing their attempts to drown out employees' very real experiences (on Glassdoor and LinkedIn) with strategically organized positive reviews and postings. All in all, this company will grasp at straws and no one is safe. Sales Assembly does have a strong Boys Club culture, but luck with long-term tenure still ends up not being in your favor even if you're a straight white male. You have to be willing to go above and beyond at young scrappy companies, but the Sales Assembly environment does not make you feel acknowledged for working tiresome 50-60+ hour weeks or incentivized to want to continue. The CEO will heavily micro-manage you regardless of your level or position and his method for encouraging different results is to embarrass or talk down to you. On his good days, his idea of relationship building with the team involves constant "jokes" at your expense. The CRO and President advocate as if they're your champions and genuinely seem great to work with but it's disappointing to realize that a lot of this is an act just to quiet any disruption you may cause in voicing your feedback or concerns about the unhealthy work environment. Neither actually have your back. I've seen this in other reviews and have to agree that beyond making the company money, you do not matter. You are not met with empathy or merely a listening ear if you speak up about challenges. I really wish they actually practiced what they preach on LinkedIn. Even with the lucky few who have had "amicable" exists, the common denominator is that people continually start and exit fairly quickly. What started as a great idea for a product has fallen a bit stale and washed up. The concept of role-based training is great but the content that's produced is too general and unspecific for most employees beyond entry-level to see enough value. If companies are going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on enablement each year, they want to see direct company and product-specific trainings that are applicable and easily retained. Unfortunately Sales Assembly doesn't have the capacity or business model to support this.