Pros
Tight knit group of colleagues bonded together over the struggle of working at TerraCycle.
Cons
TerraCycle is the definition of greenwashing. Told to sell existing solutions to the marketing departments of large consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies because that department has the money and to avoid procurement and packaging teams completely as they would scrutinise on a technical level and block deals. And rightfully so because very little consumer packaging is ever collected back, it sits in a warehouse for years, and if it ever does get "recycled" it is always very low grade essentially being turned into a different form of garbage. There is never any transparency that you can share with the customer and when hard questions are asked, you simply point to other customers who have bought in and not yet realised they are wasting their money. - Moto is a red flag: To Eliminate The IDEA Of Waste (not actually eliminate waste itself) - KPI: 3-1 (you need to sell 3 times your salary at a minimum to keep your job within 1 year, but buying cycles of CPG's are often much longer than 1 year) - No sales commissions if you are below a manager (this is not standard for sales) - Salary is low - Employees are frustrated, low moral - Overworked for the pay - Median employee tenure is a red flag (low at under 2 years in most regions globally) - Micromanagement from the CEO - Sales decks are 900 slides long (a Tom Szaky special) and all you can do is talk at customers to get through the decks - Programs are to complex for consumers to follow or get involved - Low TerraCycle brand recognition so no one knows about the recycling programs - Collection rates on programs are terrible - Recycling is questionable