GEICO reviews

If you are experienced sales person, real outside sales experience please do not apply for a sales job in new Indy location! I currently work in sales for GEICO at Indy location in Carmel, IN. We have now finished training and are now on the phones selling, at least supposed to sell if there were leads. We sit for 3 to 4 hours each day before we take our first live call. Upper level management has admitted that keeping leads in the pipeline is a problem and will be for a while. They have told us that there will be little to no leads until start of 2014 or early spring. What this means is you are forced to survive on salary similar to retail and no opportunity for bonus. BUT WAIT!! They have already started to talk about top sellers who have only taken 3 calls a day and got lucky with closing 2 of the 3. The metrics talk has started and they cannot produce leads to accurately measure performance. They do a good job of hiring people with no real world experience and with no clue of what a good outside sales opportunity can offer with top performance. BOTTOM LINE!! This is a call center with no calls to take. Producing 400 jobs by the end of 2013 will be meaningless for Indianapolis when people start dropping like flies because they cannot afford to pay the rent. Please stick with outside sales positions if you have experience closing business using a complete sales cycle. Oh and one more thing, the first 130 policies you sell pay you nothing! If you do sell enough to get paid they can still take it from you for failing on quality