Protection 1 Employee Reviews about "p1"

Pros

I was easily able to negotiate a competitive salary. The P1 Portal smartphone app makes running service calls easy.

Cons

No good way to get documentation in the field. Documentation for P1 proprietary equipment is non-existant. Managers will promise anything to hire you, but don't seem to deliver.

Pros

Can hide easily and do nothing.

Cons

Need to bring back ASG managers. P1 Corp managers all show and know nothing about sales people. New manager is a flake.

Pros

Customer Service is BIG focus. Company strives to hire most talented leaders. CEO has the right vision and taking company in great direction. Technology is top notch. P1 is striving to becoming one of the best places to work. Compared to competition P1 shines as BEST IN CLASS!

Cons

It truly is hard to find true Cons. Anything I can think of that is a weak area is in the process of revision and strengthening. If I had to name one thing that could improve it's their LMS system and branch level training program. It is all PC based and the testing doesn't allow for real learning.

Pros

Oh, I'm supposed to have something to put here?

Cons

Working for P1 is like feeding a stray cat. Except you're the stray cat. You'll be told all kinds of promises that will give most people just enough hope to keep coming back. The reality is there are only two ways to succeed. Option A) Uproot and relocate across country long term for an average management position. Option B) You know someone and are part of the boy's club. The thing you'll hear most often are "highest industry Payscales" that's great until you realize you're only getting half as much work and driving twice as far. Working hard WILL improve your situation, a LITTLE, but not as much as being best buddies with the directors. Likely, the plans for you are something like, if you bust your balls maybe in a handful of years you'll move up. Also plan on lying to your recruits because they'll make about as much as working fast food... With much greater sacrifice. I've never seen so many people quit a job in my life.

Pros

none. since coming to P1 I've had very little training, they force gm's to attempt to reach ridiculous standards with a bare bones operation.

Cons

lack of training, poor processes, poor culture, overall not a place I would recommend working for. the disconnect between operations and sales is ridiculous.

Pros

its a paycheck until you find work with a worthwhile company. Operationally has gotten much worse in the last 3 years. Company has no real direction -Iis it Protection One, ProtectionOne, Protection1, Protection D??? Nobody really knows. Is it based in Romeoville, Wichita, Lawerence??? Who knows.

Cons

Questionable sales and installation tactics. Management pits employees against each other in the name of 'fun' competition. Bogus 'P1 family" and 'teamwork' propaganda. Has resorted to installing marginal systems with little training or direction on installation.

Pros

None. I've tried to be a sport about the switch from Pinnacle to P1 but it's been nothing but bad decisions, over promising and under delivering. I'm only still here while I search for something worth my time. This place will never be. Most employees around me and in my department agree.

Cons

Poor workplace, management is terrible, company direction is dismal, and pay is pathetic. They claim awesomeness but fail at every turn. They ruined what was once good at Pinnacle Security in the same building a year ago.

Pros

National company, some really good people who have been around for years.

Cons

The company followed the pack and hired a bunch of college kids to knock on peoples doors and pressure them into buying alarm systems. The old P1 would never be in this business and long time "adult" sales people can't be happy with this direction.