Sonitrol Reviews

Ton of driving/ wear and tear on your personal car, expense allowance barely covers gas, which leaves you nothing to take out clients for drinks or dinner or do anything to help business development with. Expense allowance also isn't enough to help with maintenance costs on your car. Unclear/ inconsistent commission structure.. don't get me wrong, there's money to be made, but how and when you receive your commission is anyone's guess. You have no idea how much money you'll be receiving for commission every two weeks until about 4 days before payday, and they pick and choose which jobs they are going to pay you for that week, instead of paying you for the deals you did and have deposits for. For example; if you do 4 deals and get deposits for all four, you are supposed to get paid 50% of the commission for all of those jobs on the next paycheck, and the other 50% upon job completion, that's the rule. Instead you'll get your commission for 1 or 2 jobs instead of all 4, and instead of getting 50% of the commission, they'll give you like 25% for some jobs . You'll eventually get all the commission, but when it's convenient for them. In addition, if you do not charge the client top dollar, then your commission % starts to drop pretty drastically very quickly. Obviously the company needs to make money, totally understandable, but your commission percentage is cut in half if you provide a discount in order to close a deal ( a discount of 5 percent, turns your commission from 6% to 4%). Everything is always out of your pocket. The company is a good security vendor, it really is, but it can be very hard to work there due to lack of process. There is a lack of communication between sales , operations , service and management, and many responsibilities are not clearly assigned. There is not a clear sales process, and it is very hard to come into the company as a new employee and learn the business and figure out what's expected of you. The company needs to learn how to onboard employees properly, the lack of guidance causes turnover when in reality, if employees were given time to learn and train properly upon arrival, I'm confident the turnover would dramatically decrease. The company needs structure, clear guidelines and processes to follow, and new employees need a better understanding of what's expected of them and training to help them get there. This industry isn't something you can learn over night, it takes time and patients to grow successful employees. I do enjoy working at the company, but there were quite a few things I was told when I interviewed that turned out to be only partially true.