Vantaggi
I was able to make decent money.
Svantaggi
It was definitely an experience working there. They expect very difficult sales goals to be attained. I actually made pretty good money while I was there.I never had a problem exceeding the sales quotas, but management is very young and inexperienced. The entire company was ran very poorly. Your job is constantly threatened. That seems to be the only strategy they believe in to motivate people. Being a recently retired Army Platoon Sergeant, and have had extensive leadership training and experience in motivating people to get positive results. I would try and suggest other ways of positively motivating the employees that were struggling, though they were stuck on doing things one way. My team worked well with each other, and we would depend on helping each other if someone was struggling, because management never seemed to be able or willing to help. Through my experience as a leader, I know that you don't get results by just threatening those who may be having a rough sales month etc. It does no good to kick people when they're down, rather than look for solutions to help them improve. But, hey, what do I know? Another thing is, I am 43 years old, and they never really liked my honesty and straightforwardness. It was always strange to me that they would put such intense pressure on employees, yet they would then want to sugarcoat things and found honesty to be offensive. They were bought out by Home Advisor while I was there. Although my job did not get cut, I eventually decided that it just wasn't the type of company I wanted to make a career at. I stayed for two and a half years before I moved on to better things for myself. I don't want to sound bitter about my experience, because I am not, I'm only giving my honest opinion for this review, based on my own experience. I chose to leave because it just wasn't for me. I could have stayed on under Home Advisor, but it was the exact same thing. I would like to say that I met and worked worked with some really great people there. I would just rate Angie's List, now Home Advisor, as being very poorly managed, with a lot of people in leadership positions with zero training or knowledge of acutual leadership, which results in poor results.
