Pros
- A decent amount of the people I worked with were actually good people. - Some of the outings we had were fun. - The location is pretty awesome, really.
Cons
Before I lay out this laundry list for you, let me be clear: this is one person's opinion, one person's experiences, and one person's overall insight. I encourage you to conduct more research, get all of the facts, and form your own opinions and outlook on the organization before making an ultimate decision. In any case, here goes: - The physical office environment is a standard cube far, high walls, and good luck if you want to take a short break or co-mingle with any colleagues for a minute; if you're not on the phone, you're losing the company money- and you'll know about it. - The processes and methods employed are stagnant and rigid, and are entirely devoid of making for a good (or even respectable) candidate experience. Once an individual is recruited and put into the hiring cycle, they go from being a person making an important career decision to a commodity- a form of currency. There's so little follow up with candidates once they've been rejected or passed upon that the Search Leaders name is tarnished. - There's little to no investment in employees, and they certainly don't really value you a whole lot. Once you're brought on, there's nothing in the form of real, tangible training. The turnover rate is alarming, and it all comes back to 'the numbers.' Given, it's a sales environment, so that is an extremely important facet of everything, but the pressure is high, the learning curve is short, and expectations are sometimes unreasonable. Good people are let go for avoidable reasons. - The ownership is greedy and manipulative. Base salaries are alright for a lower-end entry level position, but don't expect a respectable- or fair- raise, even if you're a top producer. That, and the 'commission' structure in place is an outright joke. - There's absolutely no clear business vision or foresight in the office- on every level. Trends, tools, marketing, employee investment, leadership...most everything is substandard or completely lacking, and the business suffers because of it. - Transparency doesn't exist in any capacity. Employees are in the dark when it comes to what's really going on with the company, and the best way to get any input on those fronts is to go out and get drunk with the management. - The 'benefits' and 'perks' that are lauded from the get go with them are framed as god's gift to you, but once you pull the naivete curtain away, you see that it's not even close to industry standard.