Pros
Free soda, water, pinball room, hour lunches. Everyone there is awesome except the sales managers. One pro is even if you do work for them you find out very soon that it is not the job for you so you don't waste a lot of time.
Cons
There is a reason why you always see their craigslist posts " Inside Sales - Hiring Now (Lombard) " They have a revolving door mentality at this place. People more often than not leave because the job is not what was advertised and the managers are not the nicest people (more on that later.) The job entails calling businesses and trying to get them interested in buying. Making about 150 calls a day. Or appointment setting, setting appointments for outside sales reps. You will not have a headset, only closers have them. Even though Bluetooth headsets are not expensive. You can imagine how your hand and arm will feel after 8 hours and making 150 calls. However they post the inside sales job under, it is telemarketing, cold calling businesses. They mention in the ad that the compensation is $100 per sale and up. That is completely false. The chances of you making at least $600 on your check is slim. Not even people who have been there years make enough sales to get that amount. The training the managers provide is laughable. They let you know that (Name the holiday) is around the corner, "Don't you want to buy something good for your family?" Yelling at the employees for not producing. Not lying, one of the managers yells at her employees and gets extremely angry because they are not producing. They all think that the employees are not motivated and at the many sales meetings they try to motivate people by letting them know about the moon landings, the gold mentalists at the Olympics, saying you can be great too if you want! I have sales training and when I started I was shocked at the lack of training they provide and the way they deal with people not producing. Even other people who have sales training and start there are shocked at the revolving door mentality and lack quality training. When the sales managers are not yelling at their employees they are swearing and or talking bad about the customers while on the phone with them! Bottom line is this! Why do you ALWAYS see their job postings looking for people! It is not because the people there are moving up! It is not because the people they hire suck! They go through people like water! They don't care either, they think the way they do things is ok. Maybe people would actually stick around longer if the management was useful, intelligent, professional, provided GOOD training and the company culture didn't reflect the revolving door mentality.
