great preparation for future careers. would never go back - Sales Representative Cbeyond Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2012
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Pros

*They give you over 180 hours of formal sales training which is really helpful and looks good on a resume *This will build your resilience for cold calling like no other. Other jobs will be a piece of cake after this *If you reach goals, earnings and rewards are pretty great. *They do a great job of recognizing when people close deals *Excellent Entry-level sales to prepare you for your next job.

Cons

*They pretend to be this amazing culture but it's actually very cut-throat. I had seen over 50 employees come and go in the 7 months I worked there. I recently heard they are down to 10 current employees in the sales teams. *I've never had micro-management like this in my life, or even know if there's worse out in the world. You have meeting every morning discussing the same exact stuff/goals you discussed the morning prior. Your Team Lead checks in with you every hour and wants to know exactly how many people you've talk to and what your goals are. It's repetition to its core. *They will literally trick merchants into buying the service, which they are then locked into for 4 years. If you don't get paper to pen that day, your manager will send you back in and yell at you until you do *Basically door to door salesmanship. Total "'used car salesman" feel and mentality. Do/Say whatever it takes to get the deal *The hours are unreal. If you live in the burbs it's probably better, but the travel time (which they only reimburse the tiniest amount of) is ridiculous. I had to wake up at 6 am and usually didn't get home until 8 pm .

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Cons

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Pros

It wouldn't allow me to put my actual last year (2012) but during my 2 year employment, I made great money. I made president's club both years and regular saw 7K checks with some topping 10K. I used to win nice watches, luxury sunglasses, skydiving trips, box seats at Lakers games, box seating at really cool concerts, etc.

Cons

LONG hours...I would arrive at 7am for the morning meeting. we would then have team meeting at 8am and we would hit the road at 9am. We wouldn't get back until 5:30-6:00pm BUT nobody complained because we were paid for it. Nobody cared what gas prices were because we were more than compensated (I forgot to mention Dom, the big boss, would but gas cards and hand those out just because you had a nice suit on. Dude was such a good leader....eveyone wanted to do good for Dom. Why? I/ couldn't explain it...ther than he knew how to lead and that involves getting people to buy into your plan. We did. And Dom had that division leading the company each and every month. Two of the best years of my career and it happened in the very beginning. I will always miss my time here. what a con. lol. it was a great job

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