- Commission accounts for a large chunk of your annual income; about 20%.
- Zero transparency on said commission. The commission is a graduated system based on your total billed and your margins but, since billing doesn't finalize until several months later, they're prone to deducting or adding to later commission checks to reflect this. This is called the "true up." Confused so far? Well, it gets worse because they do not show you any of the math on how they arrived at your commission. It's your job to keep up with that and point out any errors to them, which do happen. Even if you are a solid accountant (which you shouldn't have to be), this is a lot of extra work just to make sure you're getting what's owed to you.
- As business grows, the commission plan can get reduced. Their reasoning is we'll do more business next year, so you should still actually make more. What it really says is, we're doing great but we don't want to share much with you.
- Pay is low but that's why this place is just good for the experience. As long as the pay is as low as it is, this is not the place you want to go to if you have enough experience to yield other prospects.
- Sterile and factory-farm-like workplace.
- Entirely too many job responsibilities placed on Project Management.
- Rushed and lazy bid process. Even though the sales and engineering teams create the contracts, the PM's seem to be the only ones responsible for reading them.
