Pros
Cintas has a world class sales training program. I've worked for 3 Fortune 500 companies, and I would say this is the best of them all from consistency to success in the field. Benefits are really good, and they do care about the general wellness of their employees on a local level. Resume Building Block. Autonomy, when out of office. Commission can be incredible, and total earnings can be very high for an entry level sales position
Cons
Politics (locally), very sorority & fraternity feel, and I've witnessed sales representatives be terminated and their sales numbers given unequally to specific team members (who weren't top performing) but had favorable personal relationships with the managers. If you don't have a great relationship with your Service Manager's & Drivers (High school, GED, aka they don't care and have high turnover) then you will have deals lost, backed out, delayed and constant headaches because ultimately the decide if your deal runs and you get paid. Sell you on how much opportunity there is for new business, without telling you about the MDR position that eats into new business opportunity, and that their 5 year contracts lock in customers for so long the zip codes your given might be 60-70% currently serviced by Cintas. They'll tell you how many businesses there are in your zip codes, but leave forget to leave out financial institutions (banks, cap mgmt firms), lawyers, obvious businesses that don't need uniforms or tp or paper towels... Biggest competition is internally. FS & Uniform reps are desperate weekly to post numbers so they will self sabotage each other and the company ultimately by getting pinned against one another with local prospects who have both reps calling on them at the same time. Ultimately, they might use Cintas reps to drive cost as low as possible to sign with competitor Your product is unreasonably high with crazy margins built in, which ultimately are entirely to expensive for majority of their customers to maintain throughout the duration of the contract, and the biggest customers who have the most money, you're taught to give them the lowest cost to get the deal done quick (which pays you the least commission, but they get near the same profits). Aggressive sales management, if you don't post a weekly number close to expectation, you're already under the microscope. Also drives you to work unreasonable hours to hit quota, which makes the overall pay watered down considering the hours worked, and stress involved.