Innovative products, ineffective leadership. - Sales Executive ServiceNow Employee Review

2.0
Dec 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

ServiceNow's platform and applications are great and support almost any kind of use case, processes and workflows. ServiceNow is the best product on the market right now, by far. This provides employees (and customers) a huge intellectual interest and excitement to sell (and purchase), effectiveness to deliver and opportunities to land and expand the technology in many industries. Most of the people on the ground are smart, courageous, creative, helpful and friendly with each others.

Cons

ServiceNow applied the traditional and outdated 20 years old standard recipe for running a license sale company looking for (huge) growth and diversification. This makes ServiceNow very efficient to guarantee good earnings to the board and investors but also very expensive and complex. The company built a matrix organization by recruiting expensive middle management with no other given role but acting like excel sheets and report to other "excel sheets" managers. Some of them are great leaders taking the "human" part of the job very seriously. Most of them, especially in the Sales organization, are successful reps with bad management abilities placed here by VP's who don't know how to recruit leaders other than looking at their past numbers. To mitigate that, people on the ground are overwhelmed on a daily basis by illusory and insincere messages, emails and mandatory activities falling from the top injuncting employees to be super happy. If you are planning to be a Sales Rep at ServiceNow, bear in mind that the majority of them are delivering three digits YoY growth on their territories and still struggle to make their quota. ServiceNow is doing minimum 100% of growth every year while +60% of the Reps are not at plan. Pricing is complex but you can deal with it. What is more problematic is that new products are sometimes very badly priced (2x, 3x or more compared to the competition price) which makes ServiceNow loosing deals and the sales product middle management hasn't the bravour to escalade that to the board.

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Cons

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Pros

ServiceNow had a differentiated platform and products. Early on the culture had a startup energy that was rare for a company this size collaborative teams, ownership, and a sense that people actually cared about outcomes. Working with large enterprise customers on complex workflows was interesting work.

Cons

The ServiceNow I joined was a different company. As headcount increased, so did the bureaucracy, layers, and friction that rewarded politics over execution. The layoffs of the last few years were handled poorly little transparency, inconsistent communication, and decisions that felt made far above with little thought for the people affected. The "cost optimization" messaging rang hollow against continued executive spending. For a company that sells workflow and people process tools, the irony of a chaotic RIF wasn't lost on anyone in the field or on customers. Leadership political dynamics were real. The right team, the right manager you had cover. Performance alone didn't protect you.

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