Pros
Really good product, nice offices, great games room, good social life if that's what you want within your workplace.
Cons
Not sure where to start as there are that many........ Alarm bells should've been ringing from the start after PHMG's internal recruiters (Who contacted me to work for them by the way) weren't honest from the start regarding hours that were required in the MDE role. , despite being involved in a sales environment for a number of years. The contracted hours were 8:30am-6pm but you were expected to be in for 8am and stay later than 6pm. If you didn't, it was frowned upon. If you didn't do this, you were expected to do more work at home during the evenings and at weekends where you were expected to do your own sourcing. I agree with the Managers that this does make life easier for yourself within the job but the pressure put upon you for this is unreal. As one previous review said, you could spend a couple of hours on a Sunday evening doing this 'sourcing', get as many as 200 leads to put through for yourself, only to be told on the Monday morning that you can only call 15 of them. In the 7 months that I worked here, I basically had no life outside of this place, I was setting off for work at 6am, getting home at 8pm, sourcing for leads before bed everyday between Monday and Friday. Add Sunday evening on to this as well. You were then expected to go out for drinks on the Friday night, awkward atmosphere with certain people on the Monday if you didn't. You then may have had a charity function/event to attend on the Saturday or Sunday on top of this, that you were expected to attend too. YCNMIU! The atmosphere can be good at times in the office but you don't dare look at a Manager/Team Leader the moment you end a call as you will be asked 'Why are you not on the phone?' Oh and don't ever be on hold on a call either as you will be asked why you're not on the phone? Make sure you stand up when pitching too as you need to announce to the whole of the floor that you are on the phone to a prospect. Sitting down, pitching in what may be your natural way and the way that you feel you get the best results is not tolerated so make sure you are prepared to stand up and pitch for the majority of your day. You are basically treated like a child in this respect. A 'Revolving door' is definitely a way to describe this place, the amount of times you'd see one of your colleagues making the dreaded walk of death to a side office to get given their marching orders, with the Manager coming back seconds later to collect their coat and belongings for them. This seemed to happen at least a couple of times per week in this place. As said by other reviews, extra training was done within your lunch break and even on a Saturday (This is no lie). There is just no need to constantly belittle staff in front of people. Your staff know if they're not performing or producing the goods but the constant need to make people feel so bad for not hitting targets is not on. This is an opinion shared by people who still work there. Some of these Managers here lack serious people skills. The constant need to shave every morning, it is absolutely ridiculous. I get the need that they don't want scruffs working in their office but if you're shaving once every couple of days to keep the facial hair presentable, that should be more than enough. No, these want you to shave just the very second before you leave your house in the morning and they can tell (Trust me, they can) if you dare have your last shave the night before. Bare minimum of 20 days annual leave is given and you are made to feel like you have just been to the toilet on the bosses desk when requesting a holiday. I'm not sure if the good reviews on here are fake and but I would not be at all surprised if they are as I find it hard to believe that as many people as this are as happy as what these reviews have made them out to be.