Foxtons Reviews

Pros

Friendly, helpful and supportive collegaues

Cons

Lack of recognition, long hours and hostile management

Advice to Management

Trust your team, we are all on the same boat!

Pros

£, me £146k after tax (plus 'neg bonuses'...brown envelope- tho unofficial and approx £25k) My friend got a Porsche Boxster given as he got a higher price than vendor wanted at least that above the value of a Boxter. Vendors declare neg bonuses before sales begin. Professional contacts, again depending on area. I went to work for an UAE prince after I quit. Super Hot colleagues (called a branded sales force),... social-life, prestigious company (haters always hate the successful top dog you're a semi celeb as people stair longingly at you, as if diving a supercar, because Foxtons is a hated yet a very London phenomenon where 40% of all sellers instruct to sell) so much stock, awesome IT systems. Bonuses, depending on monthly billing average. I was 3rd out of 1500 negs but #1, Becky, did at least triple of what I managed. I did 4 £100k+ months straight of fees: may-Aug. Car bonus, branded mini cooper, unbranded mining Couper sports, Alfa Romeo Brera, BMW then your choice of car to a certain value, £50k think. Plus commission % increase up from 10 to 20%. Also quarterly high achiever international holidays. Super challenging and great stepping stone. Met Madonna plus loads of celebs and footballers, WAGS, facinting eccentric people eg David Yates. Great guy who I never new as actually him until after transaction. I LOVED IT, and I hated it. Best job I've had after the 1st year.

Cons

Good /Bad area is very important. Need to work centrally Mayfair/Chelsea/Sth Kensington/Fulham/Islington or Hampstead, if you want salary above £50k. So interview well, beware it's bizzare process. Your released into a room without instruction. All the apps plus staff (beer is served, have one, it's not a trick, rather the culture.) MUST talk to every single person there whom already has a job, usually office... managers. Talk over others to be heard and be CONFINDENT.. valium helps, they each record a score of each applicant they remember...be remembered!!; It's up to you to find them and strike up a conversation regardless what they're doing. They want to be shocked a bit not insulted. A short 10 min standard type one-on-one cv interview. Read website thoroughly as it will be mentioned and you can brown nose the right people. They love a bit of brown nosing. The scores are then tallied later and positions given. Then location decided where you best for at end of the end of training week. So always bear that in mind. Horrible life event, that interview and taining week. The destruction of personal life, relationships, Sports, health and fitness, physiological and mental health issues. etc. Probation of 4 months...killer! Every weekend! Work every second Saturday. Mon-frid 8-8 (though smash targets, no one cares where you are, I was home by 5 every day with 2 hour lunches) Oh yeah, officially a no break policy including a lunch break.

Advice to Management

Figures are everything, micromanage rubbish sales staff. Be ruthless. Performance manage. Inspirational chat each morning... Just try to think of subjects you don't repeat, repeatedly. Be a nice guy or girl, most are far from it. Quicker vertical mobility if your staff like you. Be very good at sales and translating it's intrinsic philosophy if not the catch phrases or behaviours.