Pros
-Great office location -Will teach you the basics of the sales process, project management and client management -Work with prominent clients -Ability to travel and experience other cultures -Made lifelong friends This job prepared me for any experience good or bad
Cons
Here's why this job prepared me for any experience. Because no company should be run this way. It's with a heavy heart that I write this as the company is very successful... -No training whatsoever (I know this because I was asked to coordinate training sessions as a salesperson) -Culture is a frat house -No structure for promotions (nothing is written down) and raises -Nasty emails and passive aggressive discussions are the norm -I was consistently talked down to even though I am a fully functioning adult that is relatively intelligent -Senior managers are abused by the C-suite (not Liz) cursing and horrendous emails- you can google it and see what I'm talking about -The top managers are college friends of the CEO, they talk about earning their spots but were in the right place at the right time -Everyone is afraid of the top management team and do whatever they say- there are no checks and balances -I literally had thousands of dollars in commission taken out of my pocket because of "splits" that senior management thought others deserved. Keep in mind none of these rules are in writing in your sales plan. They just default to people who are the favorites -I received about 500 emails a day and was screamed at when I missed reading one of them that pertained to a training seminar I missed. -The headquarters in New York is a battleground- CEOs are suing each other -Pyramid scheme- the people at the top make a cut off of your commission. -If you start as a higher level sales person you immediately are put on a draw. NO GRACE PERIOD. Even though everyone knows that the translation industry has a long sales cycle. I know people (and personally experienced it myself) that were in hole for over a year.
