Vantaggi
I was an experienced sales professional when I interviewed then accepted an offer from Vendere. I received a full week of one-on--one training (7 hours a day for a week) and took copious notes. I wasn't new to cold calling. However, and it's a BIG HOWEVER, I was cold calling on my own behalf as a financial services professional in capital markets so I was the subject matter expert and I was capable of making decisions. There was no mysterious "team member that I'll schedule you to meet with and, if you have your calendar ready, let's pick a time now while it's on our minds, sound good? Does Tuesday at 3:00pm work for you?". I crashed and burned at Vendere. First month, Lead Generation, kicked tail. I lasted two and a half months then uh-oh, see ya. They did me a favor. I was miserable and too proud to quit.
Svantaggi
Everything was a con for me because I was and am the absolute worst Vendere employee ever. The entire environment was like shell shock. I really let Vendere down because they hired me, specifically me, to do one thing and I failed so miserably that I was actually considering just not showing up if it had actually gone to the three month mark. The weekly company-wide report card is a seriously demotivating, humiliating, elementary school waste of time and energy. Even when I was posting more appointments than everyone else I hated it. It's embarrassing if you're at the top of the list and really embarrassing if you're on the bottom. But that crap doesn't motivate me. I don't need my ego stroked to know that I'm competent and successful. In my experience, when companies spend alot of time publicly "awarding" people with praise, trophies, ribbons, buttons, tombstones, and the like it's because they aren't paying those same top performers enough to continue performing at the high level and accolades and recognition only goes so far. To keep top performers you eventually have to pay for them. I was paid too much at Vendere and fortunately it was the absolute lowest paying job I'd ever had in my life prior to Vendere and since Vendere. While I never made it to experience the pain, health insurance options were ridiculous but that was in 2013. I wouldn't be surprised if Vendere just stopped offering health insurance. The job I took after Vendere paid 100% of my healthcare costs and it was great insurance. But everyone's screwed now, at least until Obamacare is repealed.