Pros
Through everything I have experienced, I believe to be a better professional. I grew as a person from my experience and how to handle obstacles. the pay WAS great, not mediocre for the amount of work.
Cons
First thing I want to address is the huge change the CEO decided to make this year. Forcing all 1099 sales people to a W2 employees. The lack of care that was done to make this massive transition still baffles me. Announced on the companies platform, hardly any detail or explanation. Not to mention I received my offer of this TWO DAYS before having to sign. Which if you did not sign you would be considered unemployed. Do you understand what a transition like this can be for someone? This was a massive change for myself and others included and it was done so carelessly. They claim the reason for the transition is to help the company hire new employees and due to a response from a company survey that was sent out. Maybe before rolling this out you should have consulted people out on the field or even sent a 2nd round of surveys. From the looks of how many people have left since this transition...that was clearly not the truth. In reality, they CUT the pay of their sales people including top performers and tried to spin it off that it was to our own benefit. We can see the math...a 30K pay cut is NOT to our benefit. That is just my cut, I can't imagine those who were producing even more sales than me and what you cut form them. You claim this will allow you to promote form within and pay your management and corporate team more. How about you just pay them what they are worth?! I can't believe the amount of meetings, travel, training, builder presentations you have some of these people do and what you are paying them. I have been let down by this company more than once and I stuck around because of the pay and you managed to fumble the bag. I lost my trust in you and STOPPED drinking the Koolaid. You claim that the most important part of the company is the people yet you do everything to support the builder and do not hear the struggles the sales team has to deal with out on the field. You want to keep your builder partner happy so you can continue to expand and grow at the cost of your own people. I worked extremely hard for this company and I know I am a rare breed who is willing to work more than the rest to get the job done. I had no work life balance and I realize that it was part of my own doing, however it is extremely difficult task for the average person to do when you try to have a balance and meet goals, keep buyers happy, and keep the builder happy. The company platform has so much potential to help, yet you allow some really mind numbing behavior. The thirst for points is so nauseating had no choice but to hardly take part in the facade that was created. Warning!!! You do not receive your commissions UNTIL the home you sold is CLOSED. Which means if you rack up 50-100K in homes that you have sold and you decide to leave, you will receive a small fraction if anything at all once you quit. It is a huge incentive to stay and in order to stay employed you need to sell and meet your goals. It is an endless cycle. This is called the GOLDEN HANDCUFFS. Be prepared to the locked in or lose it when you have had enough.