It's a greedy cult! - Anonymous employee Keller Williams Employee Review

1.0
Oct 6, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As an agent, if you join in with a great team leader, it could be a good experience, lots of friends to be made. People are nice. Benefits at headquarters are excellent. In the field, no benefits. Your an independent contractor.

Cons

Everything about the company is a "profit center". How much can they suck out of the agents? Charge them for this and that and yes, the training and the coaching...it's going to cost you....$1000 a month! And what do the coaches do? Tell you to door knock, know your scripts. It's all so old school. It's all boils down to how much money can be sucked from the agents. And the other big goal is recruit, recruit, recruit. The Team Leaders, who consider themselves the CEOs of their office, are considered only "recruiters" at corporate. The top dogs are pulling in a half million a year, or more. The agents? Well, the turnover rate with agents is astronomical because most don't make enough to live.. Lastly, they say "Christian values" and what I've seen and learned, if they need to say it, it's probably not so.

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