Pros
Some very smart people work here and the tech is sexy.
Cons
C-level smug and disrespectful attitude trickles down through the ranks to make the day-to-day truly bombastic for the sales team and outcomes with current clients and prospects. The environment is always in total flux with fire drill directives that switch on a daily bases. All customer facing employees are continually running scared that the CEO will have a bad day and fire them without cause, which creates a CYA attitude and a throw-under-the-bus mentality through out the teams. CEO is a bully and doesn't listen to others, seems he only wants to hear his own voice drone on. In a monthly all hands meeting he called employees who are dissatisfied with getting a promotion, WITHOUT a raise, as "coin-operated" and should not be working for Persado. The head of HR then backs him up by saying "promotions are great way to gain exposure and learn" but I never saw any executive take a cut in their pay to "help the company in these difficult times." As well, they short salespeople on expansion deals by listing them as "renewals" and/or changing comp plan AFTER the deal closes so they don't have to pay commission. The also don't want to pay a salesperson on short-term paid trials, even if the sale is over $100k. They really don't mind having you do all the work, and then push a RIF to be able to play the odds of not paying commissions to sales people and sales leadership. It is really sad.