SOME TRUTH ABOUT THE COMPANY FROM A CURRENT EMPLOYEE
Pros
The most positive atmosphere I've ever seen. People are happy, laughing and joking around. They also take you to Mexico for the company vacation, all expenses paid. There is potential to make money and be promoted if you do everything you are suppose to do. A lot of support from everyone and a lot of coaching is done to help you become successful. If you succeed then they succeed because the more money you make, the more money they make from you because it's basically a pyramid type pay scale for everyone. There's leadership from the CEO, COO, CIO, CFO, CSO and so on. They are easy to talk to, and will come talk to you and give you help if you needed. Plus, on going training so you can keep selling. Also, you don't have to prospect or do any cold calling which is great too. Their products cost a lot more than everyone else but they definitely have a good product. There is no complaint on the bosses, product and work environment. Plus, training is all expenses paid for the most part too.
Cons
From the very first phone call you receive you are being "sold." They talk about the culture, the potential to make money, about taking everyone to Mexico for the company vacation. Of course you expect them to only say the good things and make you want to work here, it's all part of the sales game they push on you. At the interview, it's the same, they tell you how you will make so much money, how they will train you, teach you, be there for you, which is all true. But what they don't tell you is how the whole thing is from a script, how when you go to training you won't have a minute of downtime because they have you in class from 9 to 5 then you are expected to learn and memorize and have down everything you learned for the past 8 hours to be able to recite it all back the next day. Then when you do your follows, you have another 9 to 5 classroom day then you go on your follows which take 3 to 4 hours at someone's home. Then you are expected to go back to your hotel and study all night so you have what you learned that day down for tomorrow. I'm a pretty smart guy, graduated college with honors but this was harder than any final I had to study for in college. And what you reading about the pay is all true. You get paid for training, $500 a week for a month, but that's pretty much it. After the two weeks of training, you go back and work for two weeks followed by another two weeks of training while you are not getting paid. You are own your own for gas while you rack up mileage on your car. Being 100% commission, if you don't sell, you don't make money. Also, they do lie to the homeowners. It's not a free estimate but you are there to sell, sell, sell. It's a hard sell no matter what they call it. You are there to pitch your script to them and sell on the very first visit. So a homeowner expecting a free estimate is pressured into buying at that moment. Expect to be at a house for at least 3 hours explaining everything, pitching your script and going over demonstrations. This company has been around for 22 years, but you won't find any veterans in the company minus the CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CSO. You would think a company that's been around that long would have people working for them who's been with them for a long time, but most of the managers at the satellite locations have only been with the company a few years. Makes you think and wonder where all those other people went? It's because it has high turn over and because of the hours. You basically work from 9 to 11 every day, because you have to wait on the call to get to an appointment, you never know if you are working or not that day but have to be ready at a given moment.