Spectrum Inbound Sales Representative reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(395 total reviews)
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Chris Winfrey

43% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Inbound Sales Representative employees have rated Spectrum with 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 395 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Inbound Sales Representative professionals have an average working experience there. Spectrum is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Inbound Sales Representative professionals compared to other employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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395 reviews
2.0
Jun 2, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Though base pay is only about $10.50 a hour Commission should get you to about 60,000 a year or more. Good benefits Free services but you pay half of equipment costs.

Cons

They are always looking for a reason to put you on paperwork due to the shifted blame. Ex: if a supervisor is not meeting their numbers then it will be a very stressful month for your team due to the supervisor not wanting to get written up by management. You can be a great leader and meet numbers consistently but get written up for having one bad week of numbers if it benefits the supervisor. The system of getting time off is faulty. You can request time off and be on the waiting lists for weeks due to projected calls on certain days that may not even happen. If you call out then they will write you up. The attendance policy is very broad so you can be written up for anything if a supervisor is petty enough. The system they go by is "patterns" but technically anything can be a pattern because there are no set guidelines of what a pattern is. As a rep you make more than what most supervisors make. So moving up will actually give you a pay cut. There is no job security. Retaliation is common. Reporting things to HR does not protect your job and because a lot of policies are so broad a supervisor can really get you fired quickly in retaliation. They tell you you only work 1 holiday per year but if they don't have enough volunteers to work a holiday then they draft reps who have already worked holidays. The night shift does not get the same sales opportunities as the morning and mid day shifts and they do not adjust anything to assist you monetarily with making the same amount. They are understaffed usually so there will be a lot of calls in cue. Every call that hits your line affects your metrics even if it is not a sales call or sales opportunity and you are held accountable even if it is a billing or repair call. Working the night shift you will frequently get repair calls so they adjusted the night shift metrics to be lower but not the commission so you have a fair opportunity. The buckets for commission are unfair to people who work until 1am because you are in the same bucket with people who get off at 10pm.

2.0
May 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can make decent money if you play the metrics game. Benefits are not bad and standard call center . Not much else to say about this

Cons

Supervisor with no previous experience and not a lot of knowledge on training . It is not about selling the most. If you are efficient on your calls you can make less then the person sitting next to you. You sell 20 units and take 30 calls but the person next to sells 15 units but only takes 18 calls they will make more than you. People play the metrics game and take less calls to boost there numbers

4.0
May 21, 2016

Inbound Sales

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

management is awesome, low stress, great commission scale, comfortable call center environment, great incentives, over all a great company.

Cons

shift bids are not based on seniority, based on performance. Weekend hours, holidays( which can't really be controlled due to FCC regulations)

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