Pros
Wearing a suit every single day makes you feel important. Free gym in building. 80% of the staff are enjoyable to be around
Cons
The job is 8-5, on paper, in reality you are expected to get in early, work during lunch, stay after when your territory hasn't met their daily quota, and spend time after work prospecting new clients. Per the subject line there is no work-life balance. You are expected to bring in 100 new leads everyday, however the system in place to do so is non-existant. You basically go on Google maps and get contact info for businesses in your territory and you have no idea if the info you submit to their data department is even going to come back positive. For every 10 leads you check to see if you can call them, you might get 2 back. It is so backwards. This system is terrible because it leads to shady behavior from other salespeople. Say they call a lead that I have but I haven't called it yet. Even though that lead belongs to me they can blind call it and guilt you or the head of sales to make you give it to them, even though it was your lead. It's pretty scummy and I truly believe some of the people that work their would help you look for your wallet even though they were the one that stole it. There is no real training. You get a week of orientation about the company and get put on the phones with a script. Pretty standard for a telemarketing company like this. The sad thing is though that you will get canned for not hitting your quota and not even given any sort of remedial training. The management is constantly riding everyone to pick up their dials, get more and more appointments that you might feel you are going to get fired any second. The burnout is outrageous and after 5 weeks 90% of my training class had quit. This place is very much a telemarketing boiler room. I've worked in a handful of "inside sales" jobs like this, some better and some worse. This place is pretty soul crushing and quite frankly I'm glad that I'm no longer there.