- Lowest pay of expert network firms (roughly 60-65K base for new associates)
- Company is very loose and hazy on when work hours are. Your hours are dependent on team and client. On the employment contract, you're told work is from 9am-6pm, but your team will expect you to work for 8:30-45am to 6:30-7pm. You must be ready to start right at 8:45am, but it's a bad look if you leave right on the dot at 6pm. Managers can be passive aggressive about you leaving at 6pm. Client associates tend to work way later than 6pm and many even answer emails till midnight (which is a main reason associates aren't very excited to be promoted).
- Cold calling 100+ people per day
- Could be fully remote, but must be in office for optics.
- Your performance is based on KPI's and target numbers. Even if you work at your maximum effort, you still might not hit target and could even work later to prove you're trying your best. You have an overall monthly points target (that increases every time you pass it). If you don't hit your target for three months in a row, you're placed on a PIP for 30 days. After 30 days, you're gone. The grey-area of the target is your "Custom sourced submissions per project per day." Custom sourcing is the element of the job that's the least within your control. You're expected to submit one new custom sourced person per project per day, which very few if many associates can do daily. Even if you hit your main target number, you can still be on the cutting board if you don't produce on custom sourcing. This elusive custom sourcing goal gives the company the flexibility to let go of employees depending on where the market is at. Even if you hit your target number while on a PIP, they can still let you go for not submitting one custom source submission per project daily.
- Very corporate, hierarchical culture.
