Pros
I was able to negotiate the starting salary I deserved. Flexibility of "in office" schedule and autonomy
Cons
Took them 2 days to get me a working laptop and access to their network. My direct "manager", who was still selling into one of our largest federal clients as opposed to managing his staff (the only reason he was placed in a managerial role in the first place), was on vacation my first week and I had not yet been given a territory. Nor was I EVER provided with any sales goals or numbers to hit. When he DID return, my territory was assigned by opening a huge book of client listings randomly to a page and LITERALLY blindly placing his finger on the page... and Sha-zam, here's your new "territory"!! Ridiculous. From that point on, I rarely saw or heard from him. NO internal support from technology teams for BOMs, designs, etc ...so I was not able to even respond to RFIs, RFQs, etc.. These teams repeatedly IGNORED all of my calls and emails. When I approached my "manager" about the situation, he did absolutely nothing but put the blame on me. Inside sales reps were stealing business from within my territory. I had to go into one federal client and save the company's relationship with them because they had performed so poorly in the past. No pat on the back for that. There was absolutely no sharing of ideas, success strategies, relationships within agencies which might have helped the company as a whole, etc... In my location, the Mormon religion was heavily prevalent in middle and upper management... and if you weren't Mormon, or an a**-kisser, you were ignored. It took several months and NUMEROUS threatening emails for them to reimburse me for my expenses once I was laid off. And I never did receive all of the commissions I was owed, despite having a 40%+ overall margin... well above industry standard. My reward? Goodbye, we don't need you. Thanks, Presidio. What a joke