Pros
Small company so easy to get to know employees at different branch locations.
Cons
Toxic environment where their “house” is built on sand. Examples: 1. Ownership says they are a “faith-based” company, but in my experience, this is nothing but words. 2. Their unprofessionalism is not the result of being a startup but rather just a lack of respect and/or love for their employees. They don’t see value in their employees; they treat them as such. 3. They underpay their people, don’t give them the tools or resources needed to be successful and complain revenue is down. 4. Sales Management is terrible. They know nothing and provide little to no guidance. One of the owners appears to be checked out so every branch / location does it their own way. One of the TX managers is emotionally unstable and loses her temper often. She verbally assaults people, and ownership appears to turn a blind eye. Lawsuit waiting to happen! 5. There is no training. They will send you to Tulsa (HQ), and you will “hang out” for a couple of days, and that’s onboarding / training. 6. Leadership creates sales targets and activity metrics with no strategy or thought. They move the targets and say they just want to “push people”, and it’s a *goal* not a requirement, but then the next minute, they are acting like those targets are an expectation. - they are all over the place! 7. The company appears to be hurting financially because they are laying off people constantly with no notice and not paying commissions owed to those employees when they are terminated. Not paying commissions owed is not only wrong but proves my theory they are financially in serious trouble. 8. Some of leadership has loose lips regarding HR-related items, including telling employees why someone is no longer with the company and/or their personal thoughts/opinions on t employees who report to them. No one should hear their manager gossiping about their own employees. 9. Leadership has a saying “sell what’s on the lot” when referencing a candidate they want you to present/sell to the Client (company) that is not what the company asked for. The client/company may have given you 3 “must have’s” but they want you to introduce a candidate that is not a good fit and doesn’t have the “must have’s” the client/company requires. This saying (“sell what’s on the lot”) seems to be a way to not do our job as a boutique firm but rather to try to force the client to accept someone they don’t want. — this is a waste of time (and disrespectful) to both the candidate and the client/company. Not how a boutique firm should do business. 10. No diversity! All around, truly an unprofessional organization, and it’s surprising they are still in business.. I missed the signs coming into the organization. I made the assumption the issues I saw were the result of “growing pains” for a young company and a start up. However, I was terribly mistaken, and I don’t want anyone else to have to experience this.
