Pros
Great middle management from team leads to practice managers. Fun environment. Great trainers if they reach out to you at a college fair or you get recruited fresh out of college take it it’s a great gig! However if you are making 40k+ per year base it is not worth the investment. Your time is an investment and there is a lot of time dedicated to this job for what can be huge returns but you really need to hit it at the right time in your life and the right time for the company.
Cons
Here is how they work...they will draw you in and tell you in the second year you clear 100k you think great, but I can’t live off of 35k base salary. So they give you a draw and they tell you this draw can be extended if need be. You check with your managers to see if it is ok if the draw is extended and they say absolutely no problem. Then when the draw runs out you are SOL. Now I won’t say managers lied because they may have been fed the same story that it should be approved no problem blah blah. And when it came time to actually delivery they said no and the managers put it as “we tried but they wouldn’t approve it” or they never asked. Either way I was in a real tight spot when my draw ran out because I had been told by multiple people that it would continue if needed (boy did I need it minimum 6 month sales cycle for your first doctor and my first doctor netted me $200 TOTAL not $200 a week for a year $200 I was jaw dropped at my commission statement I worked very hard for this one doctor, locked him down my first 2 weeks on the phone and he didn’t go to work for medicus for 6 months. and turns out you only start to make money when you have 5-10 doctors working for you and they are on 6 month + contracts). Sure if you have that your sitting pretty plenty are doing that because they have been there 5+ years. Some hit it right out of the gate but they are few and far between. Don’t think “not me I’m different” either because it is truly luck of the draw between timing and the practice your assigned. Some are better than others too some have poor leadership but a lot of sales potential some have amazing leadership but you may only speak to 2 doctors a day (do the math it takes about 10 Dr conversations to get a CV. Of those maybe 1 will go to work for you in the future) I was doing about 70-100 calls a day for those 2 conversations.