512 Solutions Reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

Joseph Nolan

55% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
2.0
25 Dec 2014

Best To Stay Away

Recommend
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Pros

-Pay is better than McDonalds, if you are a good salesman -Offers minimal, contribution (you pay) healthcare after 3 months -Training is sufficient, depending on who is training you. -Better than cold calling or door to door sales

Cons

-You will be selling DirecTV in Walmart, all day everyday. -Will literally hire anyone who can pass a background check. If you make it to your second interview you will be hired. These are salesmen they are trying to sell you on the second interview at chick-fil-a (which they will not pay for, if you are such a good catch why are they not bothering to invest $5 in you by the second interview). Look for basic sales techniques during your interview i.e. indifference, taking control, not being salesy, etc. This is what you can expect to be taught to sell. -If you cannot close your first sale by the end of day 5 prepared to be let go. -Work week is Thursday thru Monday 11am-9pm (you will be encouraged to get in at 10am and stay as late as 11pm to make a sale). Say goodbye to your nights and weekends. -No holidays (Walmart is busiest then), vacation days, personal days, sick days (unpaid and require a doctors note), etc -Required to come into the office everyday before heading out to "the field" (i.e. walmart), to hear sales techniques, practice pitch and motivational from 11am to 12:30pm. Flat out waste of time, which you are not paid for. -You will begin to notice everyone who gets "promoted" receives no pay increase, only additional time consuming tedious responsibilities. -Commission only payment. Base pay is consider supplemental and must be repaid -Claims that Account Mangers make around 30k a year. This is a flat out lie. Account managers make 15-20k. -You will use your own personal vehicle a LOT and will not be reimbursed. Some locations are over an hour away (Temple, Lagrange, Marble Falls, etc) -Makes you go on BS business trips to Waco, San Antonio and Dallas. Where YOU PAY for gas, food, hotel (better be prepared to share a bed) or local managers couch. -Encouraged to mislead, not lie, to make sales. -Everyone likes to talk about the big picture and expansion, when the reality of the situation is 95% of reps don't make it a year with the company and only a fraction of a percent make it to branch manager, ownership. Ask about turnover rates. Remember good companies invest in good people, bad companies leach the life out their employees and view employees as expendable commodities. -Even if you make it to branch manager (i.e. ownership) more offices close within 2 years than stay open. -Claims owner make a fortune in sales and overrides. If you believe this boy do I have some prime waterfront real estate to sell you. -No realistic career path -Cult like environment, everyone in the office drinks the coolaid

1.0
7 Oct 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Absolutely none. The people are moderately nice, but it is all apart of their "marketing cult" and scheme to guilt you into working for them longer. If you want to work with a bunch of stoners, spend over $100 a week in gas, be denied pay for a month, and work 12 hours days then this job is for you!

Cons

512 Solutions is apart of the multi-level marketing cult known as Cydcore. You get hired on a "manager in training" and are sold this pipe dream about how you too can move up the company and be making 6 figures within the year. This is not the case. Get a clue people, if you can be a company owner/manager within a year, it is obviously too good to be true. After being on the month for only a job, you become an account manager and are expected to train others as well when you are still getting the hang of things. There are a handful of things wrong with the management and payment structure in 512 Solutions, but here are just a few: 1. You do not get paid until your third week on the job, and it is not enough to live on. 2. You are expected and required to work 12 hour days and come in on your days off to get more sales. 3. You put thousands of miles on your vehicle driving to various Walmart's, and are never compensated for gas. 4. You are forced to transport other employees (who were hired for a traveling sales job WITHOUT transportation) and are not compensated -When driving around with other employees, you are often forced to wait for them and thus spend more time away from home not making any money. 5. The job is only commission with a draw, meaning if you don't sell enough one week and get base pay, you have too pay back that base pay because it is considered supplement. 6. They tell you that someone canceled their account before it gets installed so you don't get paid, but in fact it did get installed 7. If someone cancels their account before it gets installed, you do not get paid for the sale. A $600 week can quickly become a $300 week. 8. You are often forced or "required" to go to team nights and crew nights. After working 12 hours days, you are often bullied into spending more time and money with the people you work with. 9. 90% of the staff does drugs and they are not courteous of others who do not. 10. There is no account for seniority in the company. If a newbie quickly surpasses you in sales, they can be promoted quicker than you. 11. If you go to the manager or lead with any problems or qualms, they accuse you of not being a team player. 12. The distribution of where you are sent is by no means fair. You will be frequently sent over an hour away everyday for weeks while other employees do not have to travel as far. 13. The turnover rate is incredibly high, people are hired weekly and quit on the daily when they realize how unrealistic this job is. 14. Less than 1% of the people who stick with the company will make it to manager or assistant manager. 15. All other employees are taught to look down upon people with normal jobs. If you drive to Giddings and put $20 in your tank, spend 12 hours in the field and make one sale, you will make less than $8/hr. Also, no overtime. Now imagine $300 for a 60 hour work week, that's $5/hr (less than minimum wage).

3.0
20 Sept 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You'll find an upbeat and personable team of people in this office. There are lots of opportunities for leadership experience, and the company offers a solid health care plan after 90 days.

Cons

It is a job scam. The pay is commission only for 115 dollars a a sale. You will be selling Direct TV in a Wal-Mart. The promotions are only "black and white" to Account Manager. After this promotion, you have to be lucky enough to be chosen for assistant manager after the most recent one gets promoted out to start his or her new office. The turn over rate is extremely high at this business because people are strung along on the expectation of reaching management, yet the opportunity is only granted to only one person every year.

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