Avoid this company like the plague
Pros
- generally friendly coworkers, but most of them will leave anyways
Cons
- you’re selling a product that doesn’t benefit the customer. By the end of my first month doing sales, I knew that I was lying to our customers every time I gave the pitch, and it felt too immoral. Unless you’re the kind of salesperson that can continuously screw people over and remain unconcerned about it, this isn’t for you. - salary is basically nonexistent. They pay $500/week, so after taxes that’s around $450 or less. Each week you’ll be driving between 40 minutes-2 hours to get to an appointment, 6 (sometimes 7) days per week without compensation for gas or tolls. My average day consisted of driving somewhere between 4 and 9 hours. - most of their “hot leads” are dead ends. The majority of appointments that I went to (after driving usually an hour or more) were people who weren’t home and wouldn’t answer their phone, people that already canceled or rescheduled their appointment, and those that didn’t actually qualify due to credit score, tree shading, or zoning. Have fun driving for 8 hours when you may not even get your foot into any of the houses they send you to. - they tell you that your earning potential is really high when it isn’t. They pay 8 cents per kw, when the industry standard is 25-30. This may not sound like a lot, but it adds up to thousands of lost dollars. They also continuously tell you to “just be patient” for your first sale commissions to be processed and that it only takes two weeks, but what they don’t tell you is that it can take up to several. You can’t exactly be patient when you can’t pay your bills on their “salary”. And since the salary basically just pays for your gas and tolls, most of my coworkers were forced to quit within the first several weeks because they couldn’t pay their bills. - In my first 4 weeks, I witnessed my training class of 9 drop to 5. By the time I quit, there were two others remaining. As of now, there is one left. I witnessed over a dozen people either quit or get fired while I was there, including my trainer and the state manager within 3 weeks of starting my job. There are about 3 employees in the jersey offices that have been with the company for over a year—so much for retention of talent.