Vantaggi
Selling a product that makes sense ecologically. Feeling like the work made a difference. Providing solar to homes & business that previously could not have solar.
Svantaggi
CEC hired an awesome sales manager/sales trainer in January '14 who hired 10 inside sales reps on March 10th for his team. He trained us for 6 days. All 10 of us hit the 1st month sales quota of $60,000 within 2 weeks. Rather than congratulate our team for our record breaking effort, CEC asked our awesome trainer/sales manager in May to pick 5 of us to fire because CEC "hired too many sales people" ...when his team was out performing the existing team! Our awesome trainer/sales manager refused, and resigned-even with a wife and 3 kids depending on him. It was THAT despicable. 5 of the 10 of us were fired that day and since then, CEC has hired countless new employees yet the sales team is slowly being picked off because few if any are consistently hitting the $140,000 quota. CEC sales people are required to sell solar panels in arrays (gardens) that do not even exist yet and may never actually be constructed! On top of that, the solar panels are over priced and hard to sell. ($800-$1,300 each) and the lack of actual sales support is appalling. With most companies, sales is respected and honored for bringing in money that sustains the rest of the company. At CEC this is NOT the case.