Pros
• If you have 2-3 months of savings and you are prepared to start your own business, this is a good way to get some level experience of running your own small business without the real world liability of actually doing so.
• When you become skilled and master this trade, it can provide tremendous financial and personal freedom. However, you can also achieve these things anywhere else in the roofing sales industry with hard work and dedication.
Cons
• Rigid company culture, unchanging to industry and market trends.
• Extremely high turnover rate due to lack of structured training and base pay (only receive 2 days of classroom training + 1 day of field training, minimum wage paid for 2 days of training).
• No provided safety equipment or safety training.
• High turnover rate and lack of any required pre-requisites for new hires means the job attracts and rewards people who treat the business like a pyramid scheme.
• Management bonus pay structure rewards sales volume over quality of work and reputation of the company.
• Not a true full service roofing company, they only do full replacements through insurance. Clients that need emergency repairs or need other services other than filing insurance claims get left behind.
• The company expects their sales reps to go beyond the normal scope of a contractor and act like insurance adjusters, which is illegal in many states.
• The lack of other services besides insurance and the 100% commission pay of reps creates an environment where the other cheek is turned to insurance fraud/vandalism and illegitimate claims.
• Experienced reps are expected to go outside their normal job duties and sacrifice their personal sales to help keep the company afloat with training and fixing problems created by illegitimate claims and the high turn over rate.
• Experienced reps are not given extra rewards and are not promoted for industry knowledge or high sales figures with normal career progression Promotion is only achieved by conformity.
• Company requires the use of certain apps and engagement on social media at long and odd hours. This eliminates any potential for personal freedom and destroys your work/life balance.
• Promises of financial freedom at this job require significant personal and personal financial investment to achieve. Management is misleading about the timeline and amount of investment required.
• Upon leaving, management is unprofessional and will likely refuse to pay you your final checks.