Pros
Great Benefits including Medical, Dental, 401K, Vision 28 days PTO your first year! Clothing provided Iphone/Ipad provided Mileage reimbursement Decent base salary Not micromanaged if you are doing well Good life/work balance Good product line Good employee discount Great training pay
Cons
Door knocking until 8PM or later, every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, light or dark. Dead end job, zero opportunities for advancement. Everyone hates Comcast so you need a thick skin. Getting the cops called on you while you are trying to do your job. Management doesn't want to hear what you have to say unless you drink the Kool Aid. "Voluntary" Saturdays. Mandatory sales meetings twice a week. Forced to work neighborhoods where you have no chance of making a sale. Very difficult job for new sales people, but no respect given to experienced sales people. Impossible to earn what they say you can earn. Penalized for being a good salesperson and getting referrals. Upper management doesn't understand or care about having career sales people so turn-over is high and if you are half way competent they expect you to train the newbies for free. This used to be a good gig where you could earn $40-$50K/yr without working too hard. Now with the new territory model it is impossible to earn above the base pay. They will tell you the "targeted compensation" is $65K/year. Be sure to ask the recruiter how many reps in your area are actually making $65K? I'm guessing 5% and dropping. If you don't mind knocking doors for 5 hours a day, and can live on $27K/year, heck you might as well give this a shot. The training pay is great and it will take them a month or so before they start writing you up for not making sales. Oh, and I forgot to mention, that company iPad is an electronic leash. They track you all day every day. And everybody hates Comcast so you will absorb a lot(!) of abuse.
