Toxic culture, poor leadership, and the biggest mistake of my professional career
Pros
- Big name helps get you in the door with a lot of customers
Cons
- Management lacks experience and training and development in general is horrendous. They do nothing to “coach” and simply manage by dashboard. You will not grow as a sales rep here. - It’s clear the company makes short sited decisions so numbers look pretty on paper for shareholders (although this is most publicly traded companies). - Any sales person at ADP can sell any product so you spend more time competing and fighting internally than actually selling against competitor products (Paychex, Paylocity, etc). It’s hard to cold call prospects when you are the 7th ADP rep to call that day. When you do finally find a way to get in the door and close a deal you will be forced to split commissions because someone had a bogus lead in Salesforce. - I’ve never worked for a company with more politics and red tape in my life. The culture is extremely toxic. I’ve worked at a lot of large companies and none destroyed my mental health quite like this one. They make it very hard to do business with any kind of ethics or integrity. - the product itself is poor making it impossible to leverage referrals. - Run don’t walk and find another opportunity.
