TERRIBLE experience in the Pennsylvania & New Jersey market & area! - Business Account Executive T-Mobile Employee Review

2.0
Feb 13, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Great product & service to be selling as wireless service is pretty much a necessity now. -Great time to be selling this commodity too as T-Mobile service is the best it's ever been (mostly in larger cities & metro areas). -Good health benefits + a good company stock buying option. -More comfortable, business casual (to just straight casual) attire is the norm in the office.

Cons

-Average to below average salary. -No monthly commissions paid whatsoever until you were at 40%+ quota achievement (on a quota of 55+ new lines & activations every month). You could have a month where you brought in 15+ new customers for them potentially for life and do all the work to transition them over and then be paid $0.00 for those efforts. -No commissions paid whatsoever for any phones & equipment that you sold through T-Mobile as part of & tied to the deal. Even in a scenario where you say, brought in 120+ new lines + phones, you won't receive a penny for your phone sales. -A piece of your "overall compensation package" is tied to another third party company called Runzheimer that is supposed to be tracking & recouping you for miles driven to and from meetings. Runzheimer includes some pretty stringent requirements that can easily result in you not getting paid and can even result in them withdrawing money from your personal banking account (this absolutely blew my mind). -T-Mobile is a RETAIL minded & oriented company through and through. I think they're trying (at least hope they're trying) to grow the actual BUSINESS channel of their sales organization because there's very limited growth to be sustained in the muck & grind of the daily back and forth switching of retail consumer customers with the other carriers but T-Mobile is doing a pretty bad job. -Retail stores are actually pretty much always a piece of one's job and a sale too as reps get assigned retail stores that send them leads of people coming in & asking about service or other scenarios they're able to flesh out. Management is extremely dicey as to who they assign these stores to and what that protocol looks like. -The great price & value that you're often able to lure potential customers in with is often largely or completed negated after factoring in the pretty high prices T-Mobile tacks on for up front and / or monthly phone costs. -Worst managerial environment I've ever been in. Pretty much 3 "local" managers that in one way or another, between the 3 of them, ALWAYS have something to say, something you should have read, a new requirement coming, etc... All while over-achieving quota + keeping existing customers happy. -I worked for T-Mobile for 1.5 years and quota went up 3+ times. The announcement was usually masked in the middle of a pontificating e-mail. -Worst managerial environment I've ever been in or experienced in terms of "playing favorites" and "double talk" -- saying XYZ were the requirements & parameters of your job and then changing them or even denying them). -Coming from someone who likes to think of themselves as someone that's a good mix of hard work and fun, T-Mobile is the worst of companies boasting a lax environment as pretty much all of the time that I spent in the office included mostly nothing but football catches, organizations of softball leagues, comparisons of home improvement projects, and pretty much the usual -- any avoidance of picking up the phone and cold calling an actual decision maker at an actual business. -WORST & ONLY experience that I've ever had with an HR department after contacting them over being told that a 120+ line prospect that I had been working for 3 months had suddenly texted his company's info to move forward to another rep, completely violating the codes of conduct and rules of engagement. After documenting all of this, I was actually told by the top of the 3 managers that having everything document in Salesforce "didn't f'ing matter" (although Salesforce documentation was topic of more scolding, pontificating e-mails in other months when quota was 200%+ and there had to be something). Documented everything, even reached out to John Legere, the seemingly always available, crock pot cooking, "Batman of wireless"... And he didn't have a single word to say to me. I was fired 2-3 months after going to HR.

Explore other reviews about T-Mobile

5.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

very good benefits and pay

Cons

company changing to ai first

5.0
Mar 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Training and "green days" to work on training courses online, team activities for teambuilding, excellent benefits including up to a 10% yearly bonus (merit-based), tuition reimbursement, extra insurance options besides health insurance (pet insurance, free life insurance up to 1.5x yearly salary), stock purchase options and yearly stock award to each employee. One of my favorite benefits is job swaps - so long as your manager clears it, you can swap jobs with an employee from another related department for up to a couple months to gain insight and experience into what the other department does from day to day. I left my last company as it had become a bad environment, and after joining with T-Mobile I realized it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. There are very few days where I wake up not wanting to go to work, and I learn something new every day. When I come across a process I'm not familiar with, my teammates are more than happy to provide on-the-spot training, or schedule a time that works for both of us to do so. Above all, the managers set you up to succeed rather than to fail - they want you to do well, and do everything in their power to make sure you have the tools to do well.

Cons

There's some of the same political bs that any company has, but my team has two excellent managers that make work enjoyable. There are a couple personality issues within the team, as happens with any job, but overall everyone gets along. As far as training goes, there wasn't a whole ton initially (though I believe it's more due to the nature of the job - it's impossible to condense everything into a couple week training course).

182
avatar
T-Mobile Response
9y
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this -- we love hearing how much you love coming to work! Your words were spot on when you said your team wants you to "do well". That's exactly what we want for all of our team members! The nature of our business is constantly changing and we know how important it is to provide good benefits and equip you with the training and development you need to be successful. We're glad you're taking full advantage of all of it. As we continue to grow and evolve, so will our training and tools. If you ever feel like you're not getting enough of what you need, though, talk it over with your manager and they'll help you get back on track. Thanks again for your feedback and your dedication to T-Mobile. -- T-Mobile Careers Team
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All