STL Executives Reviews

3.1

57% would recommend to a friend

(28 total reviews)

50% positive business outlook

STL Executives has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 28 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The STL Executives employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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28 reviews
1.0
28 Jul 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Teaches you a hard lesson that Sales is not for everyone, and that you will hear the word "No" often. Also teaches you to keep your head up when facing adversity and to keep your nose to the grind.

Cons

When asked during the interview process if this was a door to door sales job, the answer was not direct and essentially misleading. They talk their way around the question and use the terminology such as " We have "leads" from said company, so no it is not a cold calling door to door sales." When in reality it was just that, and you were given Google Maps of certain neighborhoods or zones that you were required to canvas and knock on peoples doors to sell them a product. Not a great experience at all. Basically soliciting and/or peddling. Very "Chop-Shop".

1.0
11 May 2016

DON'T WORK HERE!!!!!

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Pros

No pros. I'm not a disgruntled employee. I never got in any trouble. In fact I was decent at it. I just want to send a warning to as many people as possible to help you save your time, effort, and money. So I'll start my qualms in the con category. But first hand I can tell you don't listen to the positive reviews because they are mostly fabricated by management and the "hr". I know because I have witnessed it. One was literally created by management about my friend and he didn't even know about it. This company is totally full of it. 100% liars.

Cons

Fit of all the lie from the jump. Very ambiguously tell you the ins and outs of the job in the interview. Making you think it's something your not. I know first hand. I conducted some interviews.... I couldn't feed the vague answers and blantant lies they tell the interviewees. If you don't listen to the multiple of bad reviews on here and go to the interview drill them with questions and I promise they will fold. It is NOT an office environment. And is NOT 11-8 those are just the hours you are absolutely required to be there. The real hours are like 8-9 (even 10). Because "leaders" are considered lazy and useless if they don't show up by at least 9. Some get there even earlier. And you will be pressured to do so. You do not start as an account manager. You start as an account rep which means you follow your trainer in the field on day one from 1:30-8:00. You have to be able to pitch a customer by yourself and close a sale. Because... It's DOOR TO DOOR SALES. Uverse Direct TV In sometimes trailer parks and sometimes ghettos. In it the office with a bunch of unprofessional college grads til 1 at the latest. Drive to the field in your own car and you will be looked at unfavorably if you don't have a car. Knock on doors til 8. Then leave and depending on where you are at that could easily be a 45 minute drive. Get back to the office and then they want new people to hang out just to make them feel better about their bad day in the field. Breaking down a day is solely there to make the new employees forget their bad day. Even the games after. Leaders stay until everyone leaves. 10 most of the time. Then you are strongly pressured to go to office night. You will not have a life. Sunday you are off but so exhausted from the week you won't do anything. 100% commissioned based. And they justify it by saying there are two people afraid of 100 % commission: lazy people and people who think they can't do it. But the twister is even if you get someone to sign up and they cancel you don't get paid for that sale. Fact is you can literally have $0 checks because of this. Because of the high pressure sales tactics they teach you. The biggest con is the managers are bona-fide liars. They will literally lie to your face. They rush people out at one because they have interviews coming in every day 3-4 a day and they don't want the interviewees to see the employees in their field clothes. It's all a disguise. Atmosphere in the office is designed to make the employees feel better about their career. You could easily be knocking on doors for 2 years before being promoted to assistant managers who still knock on doors from 3:30 to 8:00. Even managers sometimes go to the field if they don't have enough reps. Even the manager of the entire office can still fail because of no reps or growth. It's all based on growth. The need to con new people as much as they can to build the office to promote out people so the manager can get an override from that new office. Good luck building a team though. As soon as the new people see what it's all about they either quit or stay because they are desperate. The people who succeeded are just really good at getting people brainwashed people to follow them to the end of the earth. Even Hitler had followers... Employees reading this please post your real feeling about your 100% commission Door to door 8-10 sales job. The managers can't alter or remove them and they are anonymous. The manager will come up with some cheeky response to this trying to negate what I say but you are the real voice. If you still want to go to the interview and take the job because they give one to literally anyone and will make you feel like you earned it, then good luck. You're going to have a long life.

1.0
27 Mar 2016

Not a good company.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I shall keep this section brief, as there are zero pros when actually working for STL Executives. Now that I am no longer with this company, I suppose I did improve on one personal attribute. Since this is a DOOR to DOOR sales job, you do get use to dealing with aggravated people and forcing yourself to believe that you need to keep pestering them, regardless of how many times they tell you no, because if you do not make this sale, you do not pay rent. Well, look at that, turns out that wasn't much of a 'pro' after all.

Cons

Let me begin by stating that this company, and the positions offered by STL Executives, will suit some individuals. You may find that you enjoy a DOOR to DOOR sales position, with a 100% commissioned based salad, and 8am-9pm hours. Yes, I said 8am-9pm. The company states, as do the many responses written by the management team on Glassdoor, that the hours are 11-8pm. But that is not accurate. You are told to come in early and "practice the pitch". If you do not, management and other employees label you as lazy. I know this because I witnessed it. Additionally, the rule of thumb is "the last door you can knock on is 8pm" that doesn't mean you head home at 8pm. That means you get picked up at whichever suburban neighborhood they leave you at, more than likely Chesterfield area, at 8pm and then drive home to the building in the Central West End (CWE). Upon returning after your 30 minute drive, you are encouraged to play games and your trainer will break down your day. After that nonsense has subsided, then you may leave. Concluding your day @ 9pm. With that long intro over, the purpose of my review is give a true account of my experience at STL Executives. The company predicates itself on delivering misleading information during the candidate selection process. In other words, yes they do tell what you will be doing there during the interview, but they do it in a way that makes you believe you are doing something completely different. Moreover, they want to attract individuals, preferably college students who have been fed worrying statistics about how hard it is to get a job in your field of study, and feed them business-style vernacular that will lure them in and get them in the door. It is BECAUSE of this fact, that I believe I have an OBLIGATION to inform anyone who comes across this post of exactly what they road they are entering. Only then, with the truth at there disposal, can they decide if they want to pursue a career with STL Executives. Let me list what I believe are the most important aspects you should know about this company: 1.) As I have perviously stated, this is a door to door job. My first week was being dropped off in Chesterfield with a trainer and walking around a neighborhood knocking on doors. I was completely surprised when we slowly walked to his car, after being handed a list of addresses, and started driving for 30 minutes while he made me answer questions about the "pitch". 2.) The office culture is hypocritical. They push "professionalism" but very rarely do they back it up themselves. 3.) I had to go to court and plead guilty of a soliciting violation because my trainer did not have a permit in that area. As stated on someone else's response, STL Executives do pay your fines. But does that really matter? 4.) My door to door life began in Chesterfield, but quickly moved to an area where economic poverty was everywhere. A trailer park to be exact. A lady said it was illegal for me to be here and told me she called the police. This was a day AFTER I had just received my solicitation ticket. A few days later, in a new area, an employee said to me at 8:10pm that we needed to leave because the lady across the street has just called the police. 5.) Those "trips" they keep bragging about are trips to surrounding cities where you stay in a hotel and conduct the same routine as you do in St. Louis, door to door. 6.) If you have a car, you will drive everywhere. An employee asked me to take him to his house so he could pick up some things. He also told me, after making $0 that day and spending $45 on filling up my gas tank, that my attitude is poor. Seriously? 7.) I hope you like spending $15 a day on fast food because that's where you eat lunch. McDonalds, Subway, etc. At this point, I want to stop as I believe I have had said enough. But trust me, there is more to be said. As you can see from each comment posted on Glassdoor prior to mine, the company boss always has an explanation, or in my eyes an excuse, for each negative experience someone had and I'm sure he will have a response for me too. But that does not bother me, not if you hang around the company long enough and see the type of characters they are. I hope everyone reading this can see the emerging patterns being exposed throughout these reviews. If each negative comment states the same experiences over and over, and the rest of the comments are saying "OMG, Amazing Experience", red flags should be raised.

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