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Account Manager (RAM) - Los Angeles, CA - Regional Account Manager Cogent Communications Employee Review

2.0
Jul 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Good job for someone right out of college * Okay base with 4 month ramp up commission (not a draw) * Everyone is friendly for the most part * if you get a good manager you can make some good money. If you don't you better start looking for another job. * Good spot to hold you over until you find something better.

Cons

* A lot of cold calling * Manager was more of a school teacher disciplining the team, than helping them closer deals. * Not a job for a true sales person (closer) * Direct manager did not have strong sales skills to help close business * If you do not sell something in your first 6 months you're fired * High turnover rate - I was there for less than a year and saw nothing but non-stop change * stuck at a desk 40 hours a week * They trace your calls to the second and review it every day - I would have rather been judged by the quality of opportunities I created and not how many calls I was making. You end up making calls just to meet your daily numbers. * No matter how long you may stay there, you are just a name on a list. They will get rid of you in a second.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free coffee and soda that's it.

Cons

Where do you even start. The company has no direction and the stock has dropped over $70 in a year. All the cutbacks that they make to cover losses come from reps compensation. You have to clock in and clock out everyday like you work in a candy factory and if you miss clocking in or clocking out they fire you. So many lazy people .They equip you with a laptop from 2017 that barely works and an iPhone SE from 2006. Most of the prospects block the numbers so cogent can't call . They have no one to sell to.

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