Vantaggi
* Great place for former yellow pages salespeople and door-to-door sales canvassers to be happy and succeed. * Work from home. * Nothing else positive can be said about the company (would have rated ZERO stars if that were an option).
Svantaggi
* CEO resigned in April 2015 after NCM merger (acquisition) failed. * Lack of vision and leadership at upper management level. Upper management is untouchable and unapproachable, out of touch with what is happening within the company day-to-day below their level. * After your first week, meaningful sales training is non-existent for local advertising salespeople. * Sales management from top down constantly driving with high pressure for every salesperson to get a sale each and every week with very little positive reinforcement when they do get one (their attitude -- you get your commission). * Sales management leverages peer pressure so salespeople either produce a sales this week or risk embarrassment in front of their peers. * Sales management only cares about salespeople selling a new advertiser each and every week and have very little interest in salespeople building long-term relationships/repeat business with advertisers (have heard sales management say on many occasions that they don't care about contract renewals). * Sales management has no respect or loyalty to salespeople and territories. Have Strategic Account Executives, Account Executives, and Territory Development Specialists all selling within the same geographic territories with no over-riding sales strategy or fairness in mind. All they care about is getting a new sale, whoever gets it first! Protected geographic territories are promised to salespeople during the interview process. * Sales management does not respect experienced salespeople. You're simply there to bring in a new advertiser each and every week just like every other salesperson...Period. * No opportunity for advancement. Company has a long history of always recruiting and hiring Sales VPs and Regional Sales Directors from outside the company that have no experience selling cinema advertising rather than have an internal job posting system and career advancement path for qualified and desiring current employees. * Many times local ads don't run in the pre-show as contracted. Screenvision does not tell advertisers, or offer them any compensation, when those situations occur unless the advertiser actually has gone to the theater(s) and discovered it on their own. Screenvision's digital system for proving ads have run on-screen still shows ads have run on-screen correctly even if there was no sound or picture when the pre-show actually ran on-screen. * Many times the pre-show does not actually run on-screen at "JPEG" theaters (many of the company's theaters). Screenvision does not track the ad showing compliance at those theaters and they do not inform advertisers when they are not receiving the ad plays they had contracted to receive. The advertiser has to discover the problem on their own by attending the theater(s) and watching the pre-show and then asking for compensation if the pre-show doesn't run. * Many local theaters cut ads out of the Screenvision pre-show to shorten the program, especially on weekends when they cram in many movie showings per screen and pre-show audiences are the largest. Advertisers are not told this and have to discover it on their own. * The company's salespeople represent to local advertisers that their ads are going to run in the "pre-show", but the company actually places a "later" pre-show after the "early" pre-show containing the local ads that contains 5-7 minutes of just national ads before the previews and then the actual movie start time. Because of that, almost all of the local ads run on-screen a long time before the actual movie start time when very few people are actually in the theaters and will see the local ads. It also happens on weekends when theater attendance is the largest.