Chemsearch Reviews

Your success path is truly dictated by the type of territory and manager that is assigned to you. For example some reps can make a significant amount of money as early as their first year, if they pick up a solid book of business. If you are assigned to what is described as a scratch territory, which is one with no to only a few accounts, your chance for success significantly drops. The reason for that is because Chemsearch forces their sales people to switch to full commission within 12 to 15 months, and they reduce your base salary along the way. Your commission percentage increases when they change your salary, but unless you are selling $15,000 or more per month it is very hard to make a living. Regarding the management, there are some very dedicated people that work diligently to help their sales reps. Unfortunately you have a few other managers that couldn't lead a group of Boy Scouts on a two mile interpretive trail with a map and a compass. The running joke with those particular ones is that they are reading out of manual when they call you every week. A textbook example is the generic brownie point propaganda that is listed in the review from the manager in Houston ( FYI this is one of the managers that is far from satisfactory). The biggest frustration is that not only do you not receive proper assistance from the not-so-good managers, but these particular ones do not go to bat for you with upper management whatsoever.

micro managing from higher ups - the regional sales mgr was decent but his bosses were agonizingly horrific. they tell you great job & list you on their CRM but they lie about possible pay & also bonuses. I was told an "average" rep makes $55k the first year - not a chance - usually $35-40k TOPS. I also had a quarterly bonus pulled AFTER the quarter was over - that was the last straw for me. You don't change the rules after the earned bonus. Even if you do very VERY well (80% turnover within 24 months) it would take you 5 years to make even decent money.