- Ramp period is tough; focus on getting to PM level as soon as possible, otherwise the quota will become impossible to reach.
- Very soft skills oriented role
- Hard to pivot into other industries/roles for future roles
- Very little focus on quality or relationship building, only efficiency and speed
- Treats experts as disposable, will do anything for the client but don't care about experts
- Very high turnover rate, most people leave within a year or get fired after getting put on PIP
- Clients would cancel calls last minute or pivot unexpectedly
- Quota based on billed hours, not experts added to network/selected
- Very mundane work (mass email outreach, cold calling/messaging)
- Not much of a work culture
- Competing against 6 other companies for client research calls ("rat race")
- Even though you can, don't take PTO early on!
- You are disposable
- Each office has its own work culture, siloed