PHMG reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(846 total reviews)
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Jason Daye

55% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

PHMG has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 846 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PHMG employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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846 reviews
1.0
Jun 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

A couple of the people that I met, but very few! Pay was great when I actually was doing the job that I got hired for.

Cons

1. The companies upper management is very biased to their British employees over their American employees. 2. They encourage you to lie to potential clients to get a sale. 3. The SVP of Sales and Marketing says to get all sales by "hook or by crook". 4. The Managing Director/CEO is highly unprofessional and rude. I have witnessed him throw an entire lobster at an employee's head and the manager of the restaurant for no reason at all. 5. They use their BDM's as their personal transportation when they are in America, and if you say no, then they wont give you appointments as punishment. 6. They force us to have the other employees on ride along with us. This normally wouldn't be a bad thing, but one of them (trainer) has zero true sales experience in the credible world (Used car salesman mentality), and he ruins the meetings more often than not. Also, his breath is by far the worst thing I have ever smelt in my entire life. My wife actually makes me get undressed in the garage before I am allowed to come in the house after he has been in my car with me, and I have to spend $120 to get the inside detailed. 7. They NEVER pay you what you are owed, and when you ask them about it, they tell you that the money was sent, and that we need to learn how to access our bank accounts correctly. 8. They say that you will have 3-5 "Pre-Qualified" meetings per day, but over 90% of the meetings that you go to will not know that you are coming, and when you don't sell them, they blame it all on you and they will call you a terrible salesman. 9. Management loves pointing fingers, and does not take responsibility for any of their own shortcomings. 10. The way they determine if you are a good salesman is based off of a "Phantom Number". What I mean by this is that if you had 25 "pre-qualified" and "confirmed" appointments in one week that you actually went to, and you were only physically able to conduct/see 5 of them (Closing deals on 4 of them), then instead of them saying that you closed 4 of 5 appointments (80%), they will say that you only closed 4 out of 25 appointments (16%)..... even if the decision maker had no idea that you were coming there in the first place, or they were not there when you showed up. This is massive because they only give appointments to you if you have an average sale per appointment of $50+. This means if those 4 of 5 sales were each $200 ($800), then you would consider your average sale per appointment to be $160 (well over their expected $50). But they translate this as you only closing 4 out of 20, which would give you an average sale per appointment $32. They will then say that you need training, and that you have to schedule your own appointments until you get your number above $50 per appointment. I could keep going, but I need to get back to work before they call me and actually YELL at me for not closing deals. I had 4 "confirmed" appointments scheduled today, and so far, zero out of 3 were even there. And YES, that drops my Average sale per appointment number even more. Don't worry about me though, I have been offered a new position with a credible company, so I will be out of here in a couple days. Do yourself a favor and don't let them lie to you and convince you to leave your job for them. If you do, you will say in a very short amount of time the following..... "I wish I would have listen to him!!"

5.0
May 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people - everyone is really close and work as a team to achieve targets, great rivalry between the Manchester and London offices, (Manchester are the best!). Really good incentives, they match £ for £ even after you've hit target to keep you motivated. I really liked the promotional structure, its really clear how you can progress in the company, and increase your basic salary every 3 months as well as earning uncapped commission. They grew very quickly during my time there and now I know they're conquering America now with international opportunities available. I was there for 2 years and was promoted twice, even got myself my own car parking space! Gutted to have left but needed to due to relocation. It really opens doors for you in terms of earning potential as you kind of get used to the increased income and makes you work hard to maintain it.

Cons

hard work, not the easiest role I've ever had and I sometimes had to work longer than you're standard 9-5 now and again but the rewards make it completely worth it.

2.0
May 9, 2016

media development executive

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

commission structure. Good Training, very experienced sales professionals teaching you. If you are determined the career path is good. The office is very swanky!

Cons

Working at home till 11 at night sourcing your own data to call... when you send it into the data department the next day your lucky if you get 20 leads back from 150/200 sourced leads. You have to shave (males) every day which for me was uncomfortable to my face. Internal recruitment don't tell you the cons. They leave out the fact you have to shave they don't tell you that you don't get parking. They don't tell you the have large groups of new starters every 5 weeks. Interviews are held 2/3 times a day which sent the alarm bells going crazy for me. It is very much a revolving door

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