Pros
Benefits are good.. GSMs are great people. Nice building.
Cons
You're a number and all they care about is money. Your good performance one day doesn't matter the next day. A bunch of heavy pockets funding a private company and expanding at an ungodly rate with the goal of going public, selling it off in a few years and walking away with even heavier pockets. It's a sweatshop for new starry-eyed college graduates. There is a new training class almost every two weeks. The turnover/attrition rate is mind-boggling. You spend much of your day watching interviews where 9 out of 10 candidates get a tour of the facility (they're offered a position). This is where they rope you in, showing you their basketball hoop, Wii and locker room/shower facility. They lie and tell you that these things are actually used. What you actually do is spend 9-10 hours a day cold calling leads that you generate (not them) and staring at a computer screen. The Group Sales Managers are the only managers that actually have knowledge of the industry. They're under just as much stress, fighting for their team to produce numbers to meet the big pockets' desires. They want classes to sign up as many customers as possible so that they will eventually get pawned off to the few that drag through enough months. It's all about gaining as much market share as possible to prepare for that big IPO some day. There will be few that see the big dollars when that happens.