Pros
- The people who work there are nice - Potential to make money... - 3 month ramp-up period before you have to worry about meeting quota and being fired. - There is decent base-pay even if you don't make any sales - Very little management (at least on my team) so you don't feel like you're being micro-managed every minute of the day - You can earn time off, or even paid days off based on successful you are at selling
Cons
Where to start... -First and foremost, when considering the job, do not be blinded by the "50,000 annual salary". I made that mistake. You will be told it's achievable and many go above and beyond that but I find that very hard to believe. It's certainly not something you will achieve in your first or even second year. - Training is nearly worthless. The trainer herself was nice but it is in every sense, "Death by Powerpoint." It's two weeks of training and nearly everyone in my class came to the same conclusion at the end: We still had no idea. Not about the products, how to work through the software, not even what to say. The training is so detached from what the actual job is, it's almost painful. -The job itself is almost identical to political campaign calling; You get to spend 8 hours calling hundreds of business to be either A: Hung up on, B: Told they're not interested or C: Being verbally abused. - There are other departments who have it so much easier even where sales are concerned and earn said incentives on a much easier basis and you can be hired into said departments but it's really just luck if you can get into said departments. - I was told the company likes to hire from within, yet 3 weeks in when I spoke with my manager about my concerns he informed me that there are people who have been here for 10 years who are unable to advance because the positions are already spoken for.
