Pros
- Excellent training provided - Friendly work environment - Decent benefits - Opportunity to deal with people from all over the country regardless of position or location. - In general, your coworkers will be hard-working, smart, industrious and helpful people. - Management is responsive to most matters outside of compensation.
Cons
- Difficulties with advancement and career progression due to extremely flat corporate structure. - Nepotism is a real problem - Unless you are in a commissioned sales position, pay is lower than market average. - A large portion of your paycheck is tied to "profit-sharing." This is essentially a bonus program that rewards you based on how the company did that year along with your manager's evaluation of your performance. This makes annual pay levels a bit difficult to predict as you could have an excellent year, but if sales are down, so is your paycheck and the "profit-sharing" is just not there to reward you. - The company also utilizes "profit-sharing" as the way of granting "raises." Base-pay increases are extremely rare regardless of position in the company.