APS Payroll Reviews

- high stress environment - managers berate you and belittle you and make you feel incompetent and anxious, sometimes in front of teammates -they lie to get you in the door. they say your job is one thing but you'll end up doing something else entirely -sales people can be arrogant and bee-itchy especially the manager. maybe if they check their attitudes, sales would stop declining -they throw their master's degrees in your face to make themselves seem smarter when in reality, half of them are online paper-mill degrees from for-profits that don't hold any actual value -didn't always give raises and bonuses when they were supposed to according to some employees -management nitpicks over every little thing you do while being utterly incompetent at their own jobs and they like to come up with all these wild ideas/projects that rarely work out -they said turnover rate was low, but this isn't true. people get stressed and quit/get fired regularly after dealing with so much nonsense -it looks like they only hire black people and minorities to be tokens for the most part because none of them last long in any department.

Poor leadership over sales. Upon starting I was informed that 35-40% of my quota would be covered by APS be this through Inside Sales, Partner Referrals, Website Leads, Trade Shows, etc... Not a huge deal as I have been solely responsible for my quota the majority of my career. But after seeing the lofty target for a new market, it was certainly something I expected to leverage. After concluding my time this past week, I received nothing in 8 months. All while being compared "apples-to-apples" to reps who actually have received a fair amount of support in other markets. In fact, roughly 4 in 5 sales processes are not set up by the outside sales rep directly, rather through the previously mentioned channels. This is an old school, micro-management style of leadership that thinks what worked 15-20 years ago works in 2025 despite data proving otherwise. They continue to drive the same message while tweaking requirements along the way. One example: rollout of a new KPI initiative that would "drastically improve numbers" from the former (spoiler: nothing improved). The new plan: same KPIs except a new requirement to make 60 drops (door knocks on businesses) PER WEEK vs the former 30. I mentioned this to a half dozen people in my network who all looked at me like I was crazy. And for sticking around as long as I did, I may have to agree. With this new plan, they dismissed any time allotment the additional 30 drops would require which in essence means you were pushed to work much longer & later. As someone that considers myself a fairly positive, even-keeled person, this experience made me more negative and temperamental. Not worth it.