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3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(723 total reviews)
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Jack Azagury

71% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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1.0
Nov 13, 2014
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Pros

Executives have moved from the "good ole boy" mentality to the current century. They offer a TON of training, but you do have to go to HR and ask for it if you want anything beyond "new hire" training.

Cons

Salaries and benefits WAY below industry standards. Favoritism is rampant - I know of someone who got the largest annual raise on the team because he was buying a house and "needed the money more than anybody else did." Executives PRETEND to care about their employees, but all they really care about is the bottom line. They set nearly impossible goals, offering incredible rewards - and when the employees make those goals...they hire a bunch of new execs who don't honor the promises put in place by the former ones. Morale is the worst I have ever seen at any company I have ever worked at. After 10+ years of great performance reviews and not a single negative one, I got a new boss who didn't like me for no reason in particular. He told me his second week there that if I didn't quit I would be fired. When I asked him why, he named a few people who told him they didn't like me personally - absolutely nothing to do with my job performance. I was fired because of gossip.

3.0
Nov 4, 2014
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Pros

Hours are the best - M-F and 8-5 with all holidays off and paid. Laid back work space, friendly people, lots of contests to win prizes and cash! On site Healthcare office with only 10.00 copay. Built in cafeteria.

Cons

The compensation plan stinks. Once you lose your first year of guarantee, you lose 10k of income. It is practically impossible to make that up in your commission sales - especially in year 2.

1.0
Oct 20, 2014

Sales / Product Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Prizes, incentives, bonuses for selling certain products. Casual dress code.

Cons

- Insight focuses on hiring only people that "smile and dial", they do not value actual, valuable knowledge about the IT industry. The first thing they told me when I interviewed is that we do not care if you know anything about technology and provide very limited opportunities for advanced training (unless it is on your own dime). That seemed backwards to me as I would be selling IT products. - Sales managers are glorified "yes men". If there is any dissension among the ranks, they are fired or re-positioned to another division. - Company is a "procurement arm" for most organizations. Meaning, Insight's ability to source and delivery product is their only real value to the industry. There are no services or unique products that set Insight above local/regional VARs. To make matters worse their supply chain is second rate to CDW and SHI. So really they are 3rd best in the second tier grouping of IT resellers. - 90% of Insight's sales are driven by the field team. I firmly believe that Insight's inside sales teams exist solely so they can charge their suppliers an arm and a leg to host "events" at their corporate HQ. - Compensation and commission splits are well below market rate. In the 4 years I worked at Insight, the sales commissions changed 5 times (each time it was worse than the structure before). - If you are looking to sell value and really build knowledge around the IT Industry, Insight is NOT the place to start. It might be a good place to end up after you build the knowledge elsewhere and then become a field sales rep or support the field sales team (ie Sales Engineer, Data Center specialist). However, Anything around the Inside Sales division is a dead end.

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