My First Week At InsideSales.com

I got so much traffic from the post about my first day that I decided to do a follow-up on how the first week was. It we surprisingly well. Most companies will do a lot of talking up about their products and the company making it seem like everything is bullet proof. So I made sure to take everything said with a grain of salt. Even doing that I am amazed by the company. Not everything is perfect, but I believe that they are making some great strides to fix the things that need to be fixed. Above all I think there are a few things that make me so excited to work at this company.

Culture

Something that most tech companies have is a culture that is work hard play hard. This is the reason that a lot of these companies have game rooms, soda machines, great benefits, and all the other awesome things that you have heard of tech companies having. It makes an environment that encourages people to be able to unwind for a little bit, and then jump back into their projects. 

I know for me I like to power through a project, and then take a break for a while so that my mind can reset. It also helps to go do something that will take your mind off of a problem so that your brain can process it while you are focusing on something else. Also, it is just fun to have cool things, and it entices employees to stay if they are having fun and working on things that are worth while.

Planning

I feel like a lot of companies will just let themselves grow without planning in advance, at least this is what I have seen before, but from what I can tell there has been a lot of planning in this company's growth. They have hired key individuals to build out an education platform, lead improvements on their software, do business research, and grow their sales and support staff. People that have been company for a long period of time have not really been replaced with more knowledgeable people, but positions have been created to integrate new high level hires. The company seems to have a good hierarchy and structure with what seem to be very qualified people from all over the country.

I believe that it is because of restructuring and finding highly qualified talent that this company will be able to find itself as an industry leader in not just selling software, but in leading thought and driving change.

Science

Something that has been repeated over and over is that InsideSales.com believes that "science holds the key to unlocking human potential." I love that this is their mindset. They are all about making informed decisions based on scientific studies and factual evidence, and using that information to improve themselves and their clients. It is also very cool that I get to not only see the intersection of all the sciences and their programmable application, but I get to work with data scientists and people with PhDs. How cool is that?

I never would have thought that I would be in a company that has a research team with scientists and I am a part of the team that implements their findings. My interests lately are very much in tune with what this company is doing in this area. I couldn't be any more excited about getting to work on something this revolutionary.

Big Data

InsideSales.com is ultimately playing the same game that a lot of other companies are playing these days. And that is the game of data. What it really comes down to is whatever company has the most data has the best ability, assuming they are using it wisely, to make informed decisions because they have identified the patterns that give insight to consumer habits. Which in turn reduces time that people waste on useless tactics and and poorly time efforts. This makes work incredibly efficient and lets you focus on more important things instead of playing the guessing game with how consumers behave. This information is a game changer for struggling companies, because it gives them the ability to optimize their time and efforts so that they aren't wasting as much time. 

This is just one example of how you can gather data to gain insights on human behavior, and that is why this big data movement is so intriguing to me. I love learning how people work and how you can find patterns in something that seems so completely random. The greatest part is that this is just the beginning of what can be done. It will be exciting to see how this industry evolves.

So those are my thoughts and why I am excited about this job. Yay!