Sales - Anonymous employee Cision Employee Review

5.0
26 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The environment is very welcoming to new employees. There are a number of members on the sales teams that have been on the team for a number of years as well as team members that are new and looking to get into the software sales industry. The amenities at the offices are great. The headquarters has great coffee machines to get the day started. There office in Beltsville, MD has a gym, basketball court and work out classes. As a new employee, you will see the work hard, play harder atmosphere. If you do well, you will set yourself up for a promotion within the first year to two years. Cision is a great opportunity to grow your career.

Cons

Company is always looking to acquire new companies. Therefore, you have to be ready for new products to sell and new practices changing slightly. Overall, this is good, but with the change this does cause their to be training's on the new updates to our services. (I'd rather be on the phones selling)

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Cision Response
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We’re really glad to hear you’re enjoying your time at Cision -- both in the office environments and in the the work that you’re doing! We appreciate the feedback on continuing to improve communication - between quarterly townhalls, updates on our intranet, and video blogs from our executive team we actively work to keep our employees updated as much as possible. We also acknowledge how important it is to have our executive team participate in employee events and will continue to involve them in as much as possible. If you have additional ideas please pass them along to us!

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