Pros
- Allows someone to have a true experience of what it is like to work in a start-up - Allows a person who has little managerial experience the ability to manage over 40 people in multiple geographic locations
Cons
- Low pay • ($20,000 starting salary?? For a REGIONAL SALES MANAGER??) • Terrible commission structure (company couldn't even afford to pay regular paychecks some weeks, not to mention commission checks) - Poor facilities • "Office" is located on the second floor in an abandoned portion of a bagel factory that their fraternity alumni donated to them - Little-to-zero benefits - thank God I never had to use them. No dental / vision plan. - Internal financial problems: • Missed paychecks (worst possible trait of any company • Over-aggressive expansion of territories / employees at schools (quickly failed, got out of control) • Purchased AMEX Platinum cards for all employees to use on all trips / charge expenditures and then couldn't explain not paying pay checks ... ??? - Long hours • easily more than 60 hours per week (frowned upon if you leave around normal COB aka 5:00PM • ILLEGAL since they weren't paying us for ANY overtime). - No office supplies provided • Hope you don't mind using your own computer every day • (besides a desk) - Toxic stress / work culture: • Trip-ups in product deadlines / submission of material result in CONSTANT stress and overtime hours ... scrambling to throw together a paper. • Would attempt to throw random get-togethers to build culture, but was engulfed in a cloak-and-dagger frustrating feelings towards other team members. - ZERO development and NON-CAREER STRUCTURE • Just a SELL-SELL-SELL and public embarrassment if you don't hit your number ... • If you love to be singled out in front of your peers, this work environment is for you. - Poor work-life balance • Random last minute meetings called on Saturday/Sunday mornings, meetings entail CEO pacing around getting angry about why certain schools aren't hitting their number instead of proactively working problem out • When people bring solutions to the table, they are immediately shot out of the sky).