Office Depot Employee Reviews for Business Development Manager

"Be careful what you wish for."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Keep your resume up to date. They churn and burn employees!"

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Has to be one of the worst run corporations in the United States. All talk and no action. Tried to diversify our offerings and forgot about the core products that made them successful."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reduce the number of meeting hours a month! One month, while employed there, I had to attend over 40 hours of meetings. Then at the end of the month, managers couldn't figure out why production was off 25%!!!!"

"Worst company I ever worked for. Terrible management with no business savvy. I brought them 1.5 million in business and they couldn't work out simple details. Staples had no problem taking on these customers. No organization whatsoever. I couldn't even get a list of current customers in my territory. Wasted over 50% of my prospecting time calling prospects who were already customers. This, in turn made it look like I had no idea what I was doing."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"Nothing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't do it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"All new people. Take management classes. Don't hire a manager because he could throw a fastball (baseball). (I'm not kidding) I was an outside sales person. If I wasn't at a certain productivity level I had to stay in the office on Mondays. That's 20 of my time an office when I'm supposed to be outside working. I could see if we were actually working a plan to improve but people would just sit around all day and talk. You don't have meetings at 8:00 on Monday mornings. You also don't have meetings at 3:00 pm on Friday. Doesn't create an environment for an effective meeting."

"A good company."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"The people and also the name recognition."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A good place to work when getting started in sales because of the training that they do for you."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"All the reports for reports."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reduce the reporting."

"Wasn't the opportunity I had thought."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"Large sales force with good energy."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Laggards."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Bring in new blood."