Pros
They try and make the atmosphere as fun and relaxed as possible, you can wear shorts and flip flops and managers bring in beer many Friday afternoons.
Kontras
First and foremost, the compensation is very misleading. Yes, the commission is uncapped, but first you must pay off a draw that is difficult for even management to explain most of the time. Plan on making no more than $35K for at least a year, if not 18 months. Work life balance does not exist, you are expected to be available at all times and your life will revolve around your job. You will be expected to put in 50-60 hours a week for at least 18 months, and if you don't, you will more than likely be told that you aren't a good employee and berated for it as opposed to coached on how to work more efficiently. The culture is that of a frat house, which sounds great in theory, until you realize, this is in place to distract you from how miserable you are with your life or lack there of. If you aren't a white male, good luck, and this coming from a white male that was in recruiting. I am ashamed that I sold this "dream" to college kids and this was their first experience with corporate life after college. As for the hiring profile, I was a recruiter out of a satelite office, and any time the candidate was not a white male, it immediatly was a "communication issue" with the hiring manager or if it was a female candidate, the hiring manager would say, "I didn't realize we had any coordinator positions open". (Implying that a female was not capable of being successful in a sales position.) People were cut from the interview process for being single parents and other issues that frankly I found to be extremely unethical. The final straw was when a very strong candidate was coming through the interview process, he was an African American male with long hair (which there were other individuals in the office with long hair that were African American) and this candidate was cut because the hiring manager stated, "Those type of people come with a lot of issues, just look at the mistakes I made hiring the other few and all the personal issues they have in their life." (It should be noted that one of the individuals he was referencing had just become a successful broker and was close to paying off his draw.) On a final note, when I brought this to the attention of HR, the response was, "Well, your office is one of the most diverse in the company, so we really don't have anything to look into."
