When I first got recruited to Home Advisor, I came to Glassdoor. The reviews were mixed, either really good or pretty bad. I went forward with the job anyway.
They really draw you in, "Oh you can make so much money! It's such a fun environment! We really care about our employees and our customers!" It's all a huge facade.
The turnover rate is insane, they have new training classes every three weeks for sales positions because so many people quit.
Management uses scare tactics that make you feel like you're constantly on the brink of getting fired no matter how much effort you put in.
The top salespeople are manipulative liars. The people they sign up to join Home Advisor usually cancel because they've been misled.
You only get commission after you've put up 5 sales in a pay period, which is much more complicated than you'd think. You can submit 11 accounts and only get 2 approved because they didn't pass the background check or don't have enough money.
You're on the phone all day calling people who've been called a thousand times already and want nothing to do with you. In order to get sales, you have to be really manipulative.
They promote the "one call close" which is basically overwhelming a person into signing up without really understanding what Home Advisor is and what they would get out of the membership.
It's a lot of false promises made to employees, people who sign up, and people who use the HA for home projects.
The owner of a business is supposed to pass a background check but there are a LOT of times the company looks the other way.
There's a review on here that says everyone there is on drugs and the company shrugs it off, but seriously, everyone there is on drugs. Adderall, Xanax, Vicodin, other prescription drugs plus booze, weed, coke, and god knows what else. The environment there is so toxic that the only way to get through the day is to be on something. This INCLUDES members of management.
Anyway, I hated it, most people there hate it, and there's a lot of sketchy things going down there.
