Pros
To start with the pros of working at GDS is a little complicated if you haven't worked in a sales environment. I've only been in the company 3 months or so and from the interview process to starting I was made to feel welcome. One of the first questions I asked in my interview was, what is the culture like? To begin with I was worried this would be a boiler room type of environment. I was so happy when I began to find myself in a welcoming environment with loads of help and support when I asked for it, or when someone else saw me struggling. The training - there is a well defined emphasis on training, from week one I got to spend time with the VP of Training and development George who is a lovely chap, helps structure your thought process and identifies the processes within the role as to what you will be doing throughout your time at GDS. The people - it would be wrong to not mention the people, managers or the SLT who are always interested in supporting you working hard to make you as successful as possible and giving you advice from the start of how to be successful. The team are all really friendly and very accommodating to many of my silly questions. The humour on the floor helps break down the stress of working in a fast paced environment. Progression - Although I have only been here a short while, there is to me a clear path way for progression and from what I understand you can find yourself in a department within the company that you may not have originally thought you would be in from production, marketing to new parts of the business in the early days of formation.
Cons
When thinking of what cons there were I would say that there are very few. It hasn't been by any means smooth sailing all the way through but has been a challenge that was wanted. Time frame - shorter days means that you can find yourself if not balancing your time correctly to run out of it very quickly. Parity - from a perspective of actually being able to speak to the types of people you need to speak with is something that I would say is somewhat glazed over at points. I'm not very good at speaking with people I consider to be further ahead in their career and with a title like Director, VP, SVP or CxO can be somewhat traumatizing to begin with and throughout. Sometimes creating parity is somewhat difficult when you don't have that mindset.
