Würth reviews

Competing divisions in same Territories, Customers not always divided properly between divisions. No support from Head Office, When you go to the Wurth week long training you are Told NOT to call the office for support but to rely on Manager for everything. You are selling way over market price. To be competitive you have to lower cost and make 1.5 percent commission. Company does not lower there percentage. Different prices between divisions so you are delivering the same Product but not at best possible price. Management focus is on getting new customers regardless if they will buy on a regular basis. You will be spending the day from 8 to 5 visiting customers and prospecting. At night you will be researching products and doing paperwork till very late with no support from head office. Be ready to kiss up to manager to be in the All Star team to have favors and special pricing given to you. Do not think you will be making money on sales but rather you will be able to get extra money from total sales in their complicated pay structure. If you lose customers (which Happens loss to competition, bankruptcies you are still responsible for sales targets. Hard to reach sales targets and company very cheap. Recently they have taken away ways of earning income by reducing rep ordering options. Wurth Group in Europe is a success but Canadian and American model of doing business is not ready to handle big accounts. You realize that there is a huge turnaround when customer ask you how long you will be around for. Company never accepts fault for anything and blames everything on reps. so they do not learn from their own mistakes. Hard to keep yourself motivated when you are lied too and receive no support from company.

You will be asked to jump through hoops for interview after interview, which will be with people that treat you like you are nothing more than the dirt on their shoe. You will have to answer ridiculous questions and be subjected to your first glimpses of the big boys club another reviewer touched on. You will be given a very untrue view of the company and what your job will be like, note I said VERY UNTRUE view. If you are hired you will then go through your brain washing week....sorry, training week is what they call it at Wurth then you will be tossed into the most miserable, degrading, position you have ever held as a sales professional. You will be expected to work 8-5 and then another few hours of your own time EVERY night. You will get no help from your "manager" because they are all too busy covering their own tracks to make sure their job isn't lost. If you speak up at all, you will be pushed out of the "clique" that is the upper management and way Wurth runs its daily business. Unattainable targets, and impossible growth numbers are the name of the game here. Wurth is out of touch and getting worse. Management is not popular with the 99% of employees, but most put up with it to keep their jobs that they need.. Taking a job here means leaving your pride at the door, and hating the everyday work life Wurth provides. Do yourself a favour, steer clear.