Fantastic training! Everything else was unbearable!
Pros
-Multi week training out of HQ in OKC. Free apartment, car, food and groceries stipend, corporate trainer was awesome! Many of the people in HQ and the training classes were great as well. - $1 health plan, 401k matching, stock options - Entire Sales/CRR department had mid year gatherings at OKC, great to catch up with old classmates and "rivals", amazing hotel, great events and food.
Cons
1st - Work-life balance was non existent. The entire office was definitely under 25 years old and had a Wolf of Wall St. attitude where they came in at 6am and left at 10pm and scowl at you if you left on time or an hour after 6pm. One time I was at a meeting that ended at 5:30 near my train that would take me home but I was told to come back to the office and then leave from there. I never understood where this mentality came from or how it benefited the company. If anything, it made me more miserable to be away from my wife and kids and had a negative effect. 1.5- This connects to the office and company culture. It was weird to receive a weekly devotional email with a quote by Jesus. Office was definitely very young and lacked diversity. This was apparent to me at the mid year company wide gathering in OKC where I can count the diverse hires (in sales/crr) in one hand. It was also strange to be the only person actually born and raised from the city that I worked in while the rest moved from elsewhere. That seemed to happen a lot as well. This created a lack of familiarity and it was difficult for me to fit in. 2nd - Pay would have been great but definitely not worth the 60-80 hour weeks that you will have to put in. In that case, it is way below average. It make sense if you were making this salary in Wisconsin or OKC, but major cities have higher cost of living so it didn't make sense that we all were paid the same. 3rd - You get one week vacation time on your first year. Considering the entire office minus 2-3 people were all first year, I thought it was a complete joke that we worked so much overtime to only get a measly week off. We also did not get many other holidays off that most companies get. 4th - There seems to be high turnover, many of the clients I was given told me that they were seeing new account reps every few months. They also didn't seem too happy with the state of the product. Every single client sans a handful complained about technology that they were sold but later found out it wasn't possible. Sales Reps are definitely over selling. Conclusion - I was miserable. The lack of diversity, the fraternity/jock like culture, the low pay with high hours, even the multi week training in OKC (no offense, but who wants to be in OKC?), the disgruntled clients, all finally led me to leave and look for other opportunities.
