Z57 Reviews

2.9

42% would recommend to a friend

(136 total reviews)

Jack Markham

50% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Z57 has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 136 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Z57 employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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136 reviews
1.0
8 Sept 2019

Save yourself

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Don’t work here. It’s a revolving door of employees. Terrible environment, management does nothing but micromanage and lie, poor culture, they dangle the raise carrot in front of you forever but never deliver, the people they hire are some of the worst people I’ve ever met. Do yourself a favor and find somewhere else before this place crushes your soul.

Cons

Horrible management. Forced to stay late. People steal.

1.0
24 Nov 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Social Scene I met some of the coolest young people in the area while I was there (co-workers mostly). Z57 heavily promotes social interaction...outside of work hours. Oh, and attractive women also seem to be hired there often. - Product: From what I know when I was there, the product was decent. It at least provided a service that allowed real-estate agents to have a functional website developed that understand and met their overall needs. The few people I know and sold to today never had any major issues with the site.

Cons

- Horrible base pay - Commission structure: Is set up so management and the company make money, NOT you. It is very difficult to close deals and I have to assume that the market is completely saturated at this point. The structure (when I was there) was set up in a way that you had to hit a weekly quota to put you into commission earnings. People rarely did this and those who were good, would come close, only to have their success RESET for the start of the next week. Overtime and staying late to hit commission was not allowed. Shocking. - The learning curve: The first month you are working there, you are literally in a classroom, learning how to follow a script exactly in the way they want you to. You are also taught how to properly enunciate, change tonality, and pause... pause...wait for it... don't say anything...BOOM. Your month long training is a success... I guess? You really do not learn anything useful as far as business development, rebuttal strategy, solution, strategic, or any other kind of selling. You're literally learning how to best read a script. - Personalities not included: They thrive on personal individuality, but only if you're willing to throw it away and adopt theirs. -Growth: IF you make it through the first month and are seriously considering staying there for your foreseeable future, then god help you. The rest of the educated and talented people around you are biding their time until a real opportunity happens elsewhere. - Boiler Room antics: They make you feel like kings & queens when you're lucky enough to close a couple of deals a week. When you're not closing, they make you feel like you're about to lose your job. Again, I was able to meet some amazing people that I am still friends with today. Unfortunately, management is that true Bro mentality, who love fresh powder in their downtime(note: there are no snowboarding hills close by). You'd be lucky to see one woman in any type of management role in sales. You're also sitting (often peer-pressured to be standing) in a big open space cubicle farm. High-pressure, high-stress, high-volume. - Work-life balance: You can look at it two ways: 1. They only allow you to log 40 hours, so you're not forced to stay long nights and weekends. 2. You have to work an exact set of hours that they determine. You will receive little to no paid time off, and even asking for a sick or personal day is like pulling teeth or they make you feel like some horrible person for taking it. It's basically like going back to school. Everyone has to be in at a specific time, you all have the same 'recess' together, then lunch, then another short recess, then everyone scatters at the end of the day to the bus (or car). Then everyone gets home and applies to 5-10 new jobs, if they have any mental stamina left. - In-Conclusion: If you really need a full-time job to hold you over and want to meet some people in the area, okay, bite the bullet. With that said, good luck trying to get time off to apply for a real opportunity. The best fit for these entry-level sales role are people with little to no college experience, but have personal skills and a drive to be successful. If you buy in to their process, drink the kool-aid, and have the patience to live off ramen noodles for a few years, you could be a manager and make 50-60k in no time!

1.0
18 Jun 2019

Cringey

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Learning what inside sales is really about Benefits and 401k match

Cons

Do yourself a favor and don’t work here. Apply anywhere else. The vibe is like being at an east county bar on a Saturday or like going on a tinder date and getting cat fished. Place radiates the weirdest vibe. The culture there is the most cringey thing ever. Don’t get me started on the warehouse they operate out of....that place will be in my nightmares. Another thing you should ask yourself before following up on their “70,000/year salary” (bs) ad, do you honestly care about some old lady in Arkansas social media? And do you have the will to try and convince Janet from Nebraska as to why social media can elevate her business to millions? Those are the conversations youre having from 530am to 330pm. You’ll leave with the itellas voice ringing in your head only to wake up the next day to do the same stuff with the same hopeless people. Just a note for anyone reading this, you want to surround yourself with ambitious people not people who are content or trapped like the many people who work here. That VP is something else too. This just dawned on me, working here is like a scene out of Napoleon Dynamite. Let that sink in.

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