Writing this instead of paying for therapy - Sales BDM HydraFacial Employee Review

2.0
16 Jul 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

HydraFacial the treatment is amazing, no sales competitors really on machine serums, 50% of the people great, experience looks good on your resume.

Cons

The famous phrase at HF is "We're building the airplane as it is going down the run way" and man it really felt like that, my work life has been chaos for 2 yrs. I never understood how a 20yr old company making millions of dollars every month could not get themselves together. Everything was last minute, "oh we are putting on a global conference next month, send me 10 invites in the next 30 mins.. sorry its the last day of the Q" "Oh you need to recruit 30 aestheticians to work for free this saturday at our World Tour event" "Sorry your we haven't booked the location for your required 50 person educational event happening in 3 weeks.""I need you to sell this new product with absolutely no sales materials, the company's financial future depends on it" etc. etc. etc. and that was all before the Covid-19 crisis. It was always presented as HF is so successful, "we are just this crazy successful beast and we can't roll out proper business plans because all this success is creating such chaos!!" Covid-19 pulled the curtain back and really the chaos was coming from the business not begin ran properly, not because we were just "too successful". The decisions being made are not smart or rational, if you want to work here you need to be ok with not understanding a single reason why something is begin done. This might change if HF gets bought out, but just think about what would be obvious/smart business decision to make, then know HF is going to the exact opposite of that. This is not a place that you will be able to work long term, #1 they will immediately get rid of you if they aren't making 20 mil a month, #2 the burn out is so real you probably will not want to work here for more than 2 yrs. #3 you as a sales person will not be happy never. ever. hitting your sales quota. And yes it is hard to think senior management hasn't done that on purpose since its been almost 2 yrs of BDMs not hitting numbers. So if you don't like the base pay, move along. The half built plane is crashing.

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