What’s with all these resignations? Where are people going and why?
14 replies (most recent on top)
How is this company going to sustain and grow with this culture and morale. Hearing multiple VP level leaders have and will be resigning in the coming months. Treat your people better, stop ignoring ideas that don’t come from the select few under 30 years old, reward and recognize the performers rather than minimize them, spend more time delivering product rather than making excuses of why competitors don’t have it figured out either. Only 20% of the sales teams are performing.
I am in the product team and am interviewing this is spot on actually. I had a networking session with some of my previous colleagues and was disgusted how low my salary was in relation.
All the good folks are looking elsewhere - zero progression and zero compensation reviews, what’s the point in hanging around!
It's scary to see some top performers leaving, and even scarier to see how many other performing sales team member are actively interviewing. Five9 doesn't seem to care as long as they are loosing people who represent the past (disregarding if the are performing). Seems like an agenda to push out the tenured Five9ers and bring in new blood for the excuse to buy time.
I am interviewing as well and I am in the SC org and been here since 2019. The nepotism is out of hand and seeing our low IQ CEO replacing a lot of good standing employees with Indians is enough writing on the wall for me.
The sales teams are entering the churn mix not only product. Key sales leaders are leaving.
I’m actively interviewing and can attest to this post. There is a whole world of great compensation and work life balance, why rot in this increasingly toxic and vile environment where more of our team members are being replaced by Indians that hold higher positions than we do. Enjoy your cost savings and your five9 joy.
Giving the SC and sales orgs to the godson who has zero non-Five9 experience is leading to the Exodus.
If you look at the last 12 months there have been A TON of resignations outslide of the 2 big layoffs. Problem is good people leave (I am actively interviewing) and bad people end up staying in the long run.
@OP I am seeing 4-5 sales organization related resignations per week over the past month or so at varying levels.
It’s super obvious the whole company universally dislikes the new CPO and so that team is leaving one by one, but why is sales engineering seeing so much turnover? Would appreciate any insights.
There has been a lot of sales engineering leaving as well so Mike Burkland is giving the Sales Engineering org to Tuckness like nobody saw that coming.
It’s funny that in the actual worst job market in decades we are still managing to lose so many people. Says a lot about five9 ha!
@OP - it’s mostly just product team. No one in mine resigned yet