Started off great, then became very disappointing
Pros
Training to learn the business was decent- you are training for a couple of weeks and then you are expected to know your stuff. Opportunities for higher base pay and bonus’s if you hit your sales goals. Some fun team building. Really the pros are the people you meet. Your coworkers keep you sane.
Cons
Sweat shop. Not appreciating employees. Micromanagement. Change for the sake of change. They expect employees to spend 95% of their day on the phone cold calling employers and candidates. Minimum of 50+ daily calls for recruiters and 200+ calls for Account Managers (AM). They harp on your numbers and scold you if you don’t hit them. They monitor them weekly. Apex takes micromanaging to a new level, to the point where people can’t look over their shoulder without being scolded or spoken to about something. They read your emails and your Skype messages (seriously what manager has time for this). No value towards employees. More of an environment where they like you when you perform and then yell at you and put you down when you’re having an off month. We get it, it’s a sales job, but value the people who actually try to succeed vs. only showing emotion to the people who are doing something for you at that point in time. The district I worked in grew into an unbearable environment. When I joined, I thought it would be a cool and fun environment, but also helping people find jobs to better their lives. There were a lot of perks when I joined such as 3PM early Friday leaves and happy hours for when new hires started or we hit a huge sales goal. These quickly diminished as management changed. These perks were changed within our district for no apparent reason. Management advertised a new perks program to give employees a chance to benefit more, which really was a way to have people not hit their impossible new metrics and have them work later every day. Favoritism across the board for employees hitting their metrics. These employees had first dibs on positions with a higher chance of hiring and closing. If you weren’t a favorite, sometimes the VP would walk right past you and not even acknowledge you were there. One other aggravating con is if you find a career growth opportunity with another company, management will treat you like you are dead. You put in your 2 weeks and they fire you on the spot. They mark you as a traitor and talk down to you, no matter how much success you had at the company. When you leave, you realize the truth about how you were seen in managements eyes. You were not valued, you were used as a source of income for the district and managers you worked under. You made them look good and they gave you nothing in return. Never ask for a reference from them, because I am sure they will speak poorly and provide untruthful statements to make you look bad in front of prospective career growth opportunities. Anyone who leaves this organization never looks back because they are way better off.
