Sales Assembly Reviews

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.

Starting at this company, I had high hopes that I was contributing to a business that would grow and make a meaningful difference for it's employees, customers, and vast amount of volunteer non paid speakers. I thought there was a culture of diversity and respect. The first few months were ok, with a few red flags that in hindsight I should have paid more attention to. Rude comments from the male execs, especially the CEO, to the only female exec on the team as well as other employees. Frequent gaslighting. Terrorizing employees in front of the company, and then going on LinkedIn and posting about how great said employee was. Watching folks be ripped apart after they were fooled into believing they had autonomy to complete a project. The only exec on the team who was a woman was also the one building all of the product, delivering the value, serving as the sole expert to customers, and partnering with the other under represented employees to try and improve DEI initiatives. After she, and a few other incredible employees and leaders left, things went south...fast. The left over c suite relies on building relationships with speakers and customers with empty offers to them of "being helpful". The CRO and CEO simply want to funnel as much money as they can into their pockets, even if it means underpaying their key employees (just watch the amount of people who are juming ship), failing to give promised merit increases, consistently "making mistakes" on commission, and frequently forcing folks to change roles. Eventually the President leaned that way too, and the three of them operate daily to protect themselves, and convice their customer base that they are knowledgeable, kind, and thought leaders. If only they practiced one single thing they preach about on social media. Earlier this year, there was a survey and employees were candid about how unhappy they were, and voiced how toxic they felt the 3 execs were. The survey was address, promises were made, and things only got worse. At this company, you will not be respected. You will not make the compensation they promise you. You might get fired while on parental leave, and you might suffer extreme emotional and mental duress. You will be expected to answer texts and phone calls from the CEO at all hours of the day and weekend, and if you try and set some boundaries, you'll be reminded that this is a "boot strapped start up" and you aren't committed unless you're available 24/7. The product as it exists today, if you can call it that, is barely a nice to have. There's much better places to spend budget if you're looking to improve GTM readiness. And there's better people to support with that budget.