Pros
-Excellent Benefits (company paid insurance)
-Small business allows opportunities to increase resume experience
-You will adopt better driving habits
Cons
-For a small company the communication between departments is terrible and at times almost non-existent. This leads to excessive finger-pointing and perpetual inter/intra-departmental confusion.
-As a 'growing' company, SOPs are frequently changed without announcement (see above communication problem) as well as the flow of the sales processes (again, see above communication problem)
-Growth at Cartasite is very slow. Despite their tenacious efforts for expansion, they still seem to regress back to around 25-30 employees. The lack of growth and progression causes a lot of whispering and speculation about the future of the company. The technology sold at Cartasite is totally optional to oil and gas companies, therefore when the price of oil drops, companies like Cartasite are the first to be cut from budgets preventing any guarantee of a prosperous future there
-I received zero training or guidance pertaining to my specific position. I was told on my first day they had no plan, therefore my "training" involved sitting with OTHER people in OTHER departments watching them do THEIR jobs. This was supposed to help me understand mine? Beyond my lack of onboard training, any further questions I had about my duties were passed from manager to manager to HR to accounting. Nobody takes ownership of making sure employees understand the expectations of their positions.
-Hierarchy of power within the sales team creates HUGE egos. Attached to the egos comes an underlying expectation for you to submit to poor and unprofessional treatment by some who are exempt from disciplinary action due to the amount of revenue they bring in for the company. In short- major amounts of favoritism and special treatment are given, if the price is right
-Frequent changes to management and staffing. Three different bosses in only 10 months of employment didn’t make me feel comfortable about the stability of the company
-On a personal note Cartasite was one of the most unwelcoming, highly elitist environments I've ever worked in. With a staff count of less than 30, I was ecstatic to join a tight-knit group of good, down-to-earth people where I would get the opportunity to build long-lasting relationships but instead I was treated like a temp (not even important enough for people to remember my name most days) and placed in a secluded part of the office where a proverbial glass wall was placed between myself and the rest of the staff. Only broken bits of information trickled in through the tiny air holes they were gracious enough to drill for me. With sales as their primary source of revenue, there should be a bigger presence of teamwork and community at Cartasite. The path to a successful sales team is paved with healthy relationships and positive synergy among colleagues but the overall focus instead seems to be more fear and intimidation