Pros
- Friendly culture - You can make new friends even at work - Beer cart
Cons
- I didn't like their aggressive hiring practice. I was told that I have to start in sales "to learn the business" and I only needed to do it for 1 year before I could ask for a promotion to move to other departments. After I joined Softchoice, I was told that I should commit for at least 2 years before I could ask for a promotion. I immediately quit because I don't want to do a sales job for 2 years. TSR is such a hard job that they try to make you focus on the big money that you could make. If this is really such a great money making opportunity, then how come no one else from within the company wants to transfer to a TSR role?? - I also found it a red flag when the only people who were hired into TSR role were actually unemployed prior to joining Softchoice. Nothing against those who are unemployed or laid off, but when it is mostly the unemployed that Softchoice could attract to the TSR role, then this clearly tells me that it only takes desperate people to accept taking this job. I haven't seen anyone who actually quit their job to join Softchoice in TSR role. So because no one would want to take this job, they have to make this position potentially very lucrative to attract candidates. I honestly don't believe that it would be easy at all to make anything close to $100k. If no one within Softchoice is interested to leave their current position and move internally to the TSR role, then why should you? - The Sales Academy is a training where they immediately begin to give you a quiz weekly on Friday starting from week 1. What the recruiters don't tell you is that you are allowed to fail only twice throughout your training. For someone who has never worked in IT before, this can be a very stressful experience for 1 main reason: On Friday, they give you the quiz at roughly 3pm or 4pm. The problem is that the quiz will also include the contents that they teach you on the same day of the quiz which is on Friday! So you don't even have the time to study the material taught on Friday. This training doesn't feel like it's a training to prep you for the job. It rather feels like it's a way to further eliminate people who don't wish to continue working in this job. They could easily give you the quiz on Monday morning to help you use the weekend to study and prep for the quiz, but no they have to choose Friday to make it very stressful for you. I personally didn't like how the sales academy was setup. So I left the company.
