Staples Employee Reviews for Business Development Associate

What do you like about working at Staples?

"The ability to control your own success with your efforts."

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

"Make sure to ask exactly in detail how the compensation is paid out."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Compensation plan does not meet the requirments for a hard working successful associate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not to have so many outside sales representives covering the same market."

"Overall, I had a positive experience with Staples and I am still a customer of theirs as a result."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Too big of a company to feel like you can change anything when things go wrong for your clients. That is frustrating for me because I love my clients so much."

"I really enjoyed working at Staples and selling office supplies. Great stock incentives."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"I like the work environment and the challenge."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"The commission compensation is low and the market is pretty saturated."

"Working at Staples as BDA is not fun at all and is often repetitive with constant pressures from management to perform.f"

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

"Only work for them if you need the money."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"The lack of trust and repetitive work. The management does not communicate will with all levels of organization as employees find out fact about job by making mistakes or something not working as it did the previous week or day. Changes are not communicated and process often change form of communication or training. It is all about lining someone pocket and increasing revenues. Commission plan is not obtainable if you take time out to sleep or eat."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look beyond the numbers but look at how people are treated."

"A great company - tough quotas but fair"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"The people, the pay, the flexibility, good product to sell and stand behind"

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

"Be honest, expect to hustle and cold call to be successful."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Many managers - lots of politics when giving raises - Quotas were high."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work with your sales teams to understand how the company can react to the changing marketplace"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Great Company"

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

"Hard Worker"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Travet to New Jersey"

"blue collar sales position"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Great people, recognized name, great product depth"

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

"be prepared to do the hustle and not know your customers"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Have moved away from relationship selling, quick closes and onto the next deal attitudes, little freedom to operate as necessary in varyin scenarios"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"People buy from people"

"I enjoyed working there."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Interacting with people."

"Educational, professional"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"The people made the job fun"

"Great company to start at after graduating the move on to become more successful!"