Vantaggi
High volume branches so you’ll gain a good level of experience in a short period of time. It took me half an hour to think of a pro for Sequence and this is the best I could come up with.
Svantaggi
Where do I start? Racism and sexism is rife within management (and that’s coming from a white male). Dishonesty towards vendors is everywhere, the exact reason estate agents get the name they do. Why would you agree a sale to a cash buyer over a mortgage buyer in pretty much any circumstance? Because there’s more money in it for the company through the mortgage advisors extortionate fee and the completion credits the company receive when the mortgage goes live. Basic salaries are so low that it’s almost insulting, and you’ll never achieve the OTE promised to you no matter how hard you work. Pay reviews will only happen if you make a lot of noise about it. Ever heard of a promotion where you take home hundreds of pounds less every month? Well that’s pretty commonplace here and managements answer to this is bully more applicants into using the in-house mortgage advisors to make up the missing money. Be prepared to work every single bank holiday. Should you be brave enough to ask for the day back in lieu, you’ll be branded to have an attitude - as if you should want to spend every living breathing second working for the company. Drugs are rife at every single event, from the negotiators to real senior members of the company. It’s laughable that they think these half-assed, poorly thought out last minute events make up for being treated like dirt 363 days of the year. Staff are treated like children. If you’re low on the weekly league table, you’re belittled - if you’re high on the league table, you get… Wait for it… A certificate with your name on it and a copy and pasted email from the area manager. It’s actually laughable that management think this motivates staff to continue a high level of achievement! Offices don’t work together as they’re practically in direct competition with each-other when the office of the month figures are released. They do not invest the extortionate amount of money they make, not in the right places anyway. Water coolers removed from the branches to save money so enjoy the rank tap water that’ll make you ill. Buy your own hoovers, they can’t afford to rent them anymore. Valuable colleagues left without a raise for YEARS, outdated offices and terrible systems. Computers are from early 2000’s and take 10 minutes to do practically anything. The poetic irony is that if it didn’t take 5-10 minutes to open a PDF file or webpage, you might actually be able to get somewhere near the targets set for you. Can’t afford to invest in what they’ve got already but can buy Countrywide for £100M+… I could honestly go on forever but I’d hope by now you get the jist. Save yourself from this nightmare now and cancel your job application or reject the job offer they’ve sent you.