Pros
Young employees that hate the job as much as you!
Cons
Where to begin... Essentially, there are two different departments at Power. "The marketing department," or the soliciting department that goes door-to-door soliciting windows, roofs, and siding; and there's "the sales department," or the in-home soliciting department that aggressively tries to get you to commit to purchasing a new roof, windows, or siding instead of giving you the so called "free estimate." Marketing/Soliciting Department: During the interview they tell you your going to be a marketer. However, to be more politically correct, you serve as a door to door solicitor. They give you a "pitch" to memorize and repeat to every homeowner, who is unfortunate enough to have you on their door step. You spend your days getting called every rude word in the dictionary by homeowners, and are treated with no respect. The worst part is, you really can't be mad at the homeowners who are rude to you. After all, your showing up uninvited, your aggressively trying to sell them something they probably don't have any use for, and how would you feel if some "rando" showed up one day on your doorstep trying to sell you something? -I wouldn't be very happy either...some homeowners even call the police on you. The atmosphere is very unprofessional, the morning meetings are only meant to motivate you because your going to be getting crushed by people for the next 8+ hours, and you work 55-60 hours a week with no overtime pay. It was fairly obvious this was going to be a dead end job after my first month. I noticed half of the department was missing, and that every two weeks the R.V.P. was bringing in a new training class. RED FLAG! This company has one of the highest turnover rates I have ever seen. Only 15-20% of the staff has been there longer than 6 months. The R.V.P. is a liar who constantly "beats around the bush" in regards to the real truth about this job. The truth is that in the past 3 months our customer service line has been ringing off the hook with ANGRY homeowners complaining about our solicitors. The management are nice people, but do little to help the employees around them. And the worst person of all #believe it or not# is the secretary. She is utterly lazy, looks at you like you got 10 heads when you ask her a Human Resources question, and the saddest part is she has a better salary than you and gets to go home at 5 everyday. At 5pm your still in some random neighborhood for 3 hours knocking on doors. The pay is terrible. Its 25K a year, with bonuses that are flat out unattainable. They also lie during the interview and say that you have to have a college degree to work there, and the next thing you know, your sitting next to a 20 yr old kid who HAS kids and no wife or education. I've seriously never had a worse job, and I hope you do your research before you decide to work at Power. Sales Department/In-Home Soliciting Department: Almost as bad as the door-to-door soliciting department. In this department you are going into homeowners houses and forcefully trying to get them to spend thousands of dollars on an exterior remodeling project. Instead of just giving them a quick, free, no obligation estimate like the solicitor said at the door, your pitching them on your product for 3+ hours while continuously throwing number after number at homeowners until they buy. But what choice do you have? Your only paid commission, which means if you don't sell, you don't eat. The full lifetime transferrable warrantee is also a fraud #a lawyers dream# and does not cover a thing. If you actually take the time to read it #which most reps don't#, you'll notice that we don't cover anything your trained to say we do cover. In short, stay away from Power!