I am so sad to have worked at FoxFury Lighting - West Coast Sales Manager FoxFury Employee Review

1.0
19 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Selling to First Res-ponders us wide and the world

Cons

So disappointing working for Foxfury Lighting Company 1.The pay for any employees is way below market value $30,000 to $40,000 2. The company has been struggled for years and is behind on developing the right products for their target audience. 3. It’s a family business and they employee the whole family so promoting is slim. 4. Their marketing team made up of the (owners) running that division and FoxFury has no marketing presence on social media or product placement. 5. They have consultants work for that are total posers and don’t have one qualification to be consultants for Police/Fire/EMS. There backgrounds are on the net and they have both been Identified and frauds. 6. The owners and their family that work at FoxFury have never had jobs before they started FoxFury Lighting, so they all think they are experts at Police/Fire/ems products. 7. The company has been selling there products out of the country due to poor sales in the us. (All their products are made in china and they started another company in china to hide sales losses in the US.) 8. They tell new employees that they have a huge number of clients in the US, but they don’t even have the top 100 first responder agencies in the US. (Current CRM database from the 90s) They don’t even have a current database. 9. They don’t have any real long-term employees which a red flag. 10. Do your homework on the company before you waste your time on working

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FoxFury Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We know that no ones goes into a role or a company expecting it not to work out but unfortunately that can be the outcome sometimes. We strive to make FoxFury a place where people are proud to be part of the team that serves its customers well. With that said, we take full responsibility for the leadership issues that resulted in poor management and direction. We have since made changes across the leadership team to fix what was broken. As a small business, we may not be able to compete with larger organizations in compensation and other benefits and perks. But we feel we make up for it in other ways. As part of a small business, many of our employees have moved into various roles within the organization as often happens in small organizations. Where a larger org might provide you with a traditional ladder climb and title progression, we provide our team members with areas to grow and develop new skills cross-departmentally. We are forthcoming with this information throughout the interview process. FoxFury's a great place to be if you are someone who loves to be involved in lots or areas within the organization. In the area of supporting our sales team members through marketing tools and other resources, again as a small business we aren't competing in the same manner at the same level as our larger competitors. We can't beat Goliath using his same techniques. Our approach is a reflection of the areas we can beat them in, which is through relationships and personalized interactions with our customers and partners. We wish you the very best in the future and we are truly sorry that your time at FoxFury was a sad one.

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1.0
21 Mar 2025
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Pros

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Cons

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