Red Ventures reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(2,054 total reviews)
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Ric Elias

58% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Red Ventures has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,054 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Red Ventures 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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2.0
Mar 10, 2017

Would Not Recommend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The dress code is casual which is nice. The culture can be very friendly and uplifting at times. The compensation is decent compared to other sales centers (although this very much depends on which business that you are on- which changes often). There can be some cool prizes for winning contests.

Cons

Overall, this company feels like a factory that pushes employees to the max with pretty much no humanity. Honestly, the place seems a little shady in many aspects. They "fired" a huge number of tenured managers that had been with little to no reasoning last week (which was done by giving them the "option" to get back on the phones or quit presumably to not have to pay to lay them off). They force the sales employees to sell products like machines, and if you show any sense of ethics or morality you will be punished for doing so. You are told that you should "want to make money" rather than give up a sale for any reasonable objection. However, if a partner or compliance ever question a choice you made they suddenly blame the 'bad apple employee' rather than admit to the widespread bad tactics management not only teach but encourage. They micromanage the agents on everything, but never look into the management that is often the leading cause. Management often never pays out money for RedCoin (RV's money contests) contests, especially for new training classes in nesting. It is unclear what exactly the PM's are doing with all the money that never gets paid out to the agents. They tell everyone how awesome their open door policy is, but management will heavily discourage you and sometimes treat you poorly for speaking with upper management or other departments about issues that agents are going through. High attrition rates mean that many of the talented people who come through RV never get positions in management or sales support.

2.0
Feb 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The health benefits are great. Subsidized cafeteria is great. Health center is great. They offer a lot of amazing benefits in exchange for a terrible job.

Cons

The actual job requires being chained to your desk and literally asking for permission to use the restroom or take a breather. You're expected to take calls back to back and are pushed by coaches to keep trying to sell a customer until they literally hang up on you. And then you get to call them back! If you like turning your ethics off and making fat pay checks while getting screamed at by angry morons all day, this is the job for you. And good luck advancing - you have to make it for at least a year and then your pay is cut significantly while you scramble to prove yourself and hope that one of the team leads will quit so that you can step up. Non-sales opportunities come once in a blue moon and are extremely competetive because everyone wants to get off the sales floor.

3.0
Feb 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Potential to make good money. - Tons of little (and big) bonuses that can add up. - Co-workers are, for the most part, pretty cool. - Decent benefits. - All the management I worked with were good to great. - If you can move up in the 'tiers', you get some nice perks. - In my experience, workforce can really help you out... though I've heard conflicting stories. - Decent amount of break time unless it gets cut by workforce (see cons)

Cons

- You won't go very up the ladder if you don't put in the time. - I've heard it's a great place to move up, but I tried and had no luck whatsoever. - Be prepared to move around from business to business. One minute you could be on a business you enjoy, next thing you know you're being moved to another, lesser business because of "business needs." - Be prepared to put your morals on the line. You'll be asked to straddle the line between ethical sales and unethical sales frequently. If you don't have an extremely tough skin, it can really weigh on your conscience. - A lot of businesses have days (or weeks, or months) of back-to-back-to-back calls. You can get worn out in a hurry. - Breaks are normally an hour, but if the business you're on requires it due to high volume, they can force you to take shortened lunches. Sometimes you get something for it, sometimes you don't. - Some businesses are way better than others. You can easily get stuck on a business with high volume and low payouts unless you're in the top 10-20% of reps.

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