Pros
Time off in the fall/winter is nice. Trips aren’t all that they seem, but are still nice. Many cool people that work there, with lots of fun facilitated among coworkers. Many incentives and bonuses for recruiting and personal production
Cons
Long hours in the summer. Crammed into a 2 bedroom apartment with 6 guys, leaving at 7am and getting back at 9:30-10pm.They sell you the dream of how much money you’re going to make, and it is good money. But it’s never exactly what you’re supposed to be earning. Many hidden fees and subtractions from your earnings. They drop you off in neighborhoods without soliciting permits, and if you get a ticket hold you responsible to pay for it, and give you a hard time if you resist not knocking the are they assigned you, even if you have no permits for that area. Many bad interactions door to door, but that’s normal for the industry. Biggest problem: They have you sign what’s called a “pay bump” in order to make the actual commission percentage you’re supposed to be earning. This “pay bump” is an agreement to come back and work for them the next summer. If you decide to leave in the 8 months after summer, and you signed that “pay bump”, you will owe them all of that money and they will threaten you with arbitration if you don’t pay them. I owed over $10,000 to them after my last summer, when I decided to leave. I know 4+ others in my office who owed more/ a similar amount. They are very shady/deceptive about their business practices, and sneaky about the “overrides” (money made) off of recruits.