It’s honestly not what I thought it would be but there is potential - Sales Associate Adler Local Employee Review

Where do I start. There is no “competitive base salary”. The people who are writing that must’ve never earned a real base salary and therefore don’t know the difference. There is a rather low HOURLY pay (Target pays more). The commission/bonus structure is generous, even more so if you’re averaging 10 accounts per month, but that’s if you can actually get any of the plumbers/mechanics/other business owners to show up to the demo in order to close them. The no show demo rate is very high so if you’re going to accept the low hourly pay in hopes that all of your money comes from commission, there’s a chance you won’t be able to afford your bills (but of course it’s different for everyone). There’s plenty of sales companies that pay an actual competitive salary plus commission so the excuse that “low wages are acceptable since sales people earn commission” is an outdated concept. Also, I was told upon starting with the company that once you hit your very first 10 accounts with the company, you get a $3 raise to your hourly pay. That’s a pretty decent motivator. Turns out they changed that to 40 accounts without any memo to the sales team. I learned about the change when one of my colleagues was excited that they were just about to hit their 10 accounts that they’ve been striving for for the past 2 months, and the Manager just casually said “they actually just changed that to 40” as if he was just talking about the weather. We thought the manager was joking when he said that but unfortunately he was not. On that note, there’s no room for growth. Once you do work boiler room style in order get your 40 accounts and your 3 dollar raise, you get your title changed to “Senior” rep and that’s as far as your growth goes. In all fairness, the company is still growing so perhaps the ceo’s will create more opportunities as the company grows. As for the office environment, the colleagues are overall very cool people but the heavy talk about politics is constant in that office as well as highly unprofessional and redundant. With all of that said, if you’re just starting out in sales, this will be a good place to start. If you have sales experience where you’re used to making a fixed salary with perks like pto, and you’re used to working quality leads rather than just chasing quantity, you’ll likely see this as a downgrade but of course I can only speak for myself.