If you want honesty, I will give you that.
1) If you don't have a job and this is offered, you take it... Period! When something better comes along, you take it and leave.
2) There were a few things in some of the posts that were off... In Q1 of this year (the Minivelle launch) goals were laid out. Halfway through the quarter the company adjusted up the percent to goal you had to reach before hitting the initial bonus. It went from 100% to 125%. This was put into place if the sales were better than expected, but it screwed a lot of reps out of bonus. AFTER (actually about 2 weeks after) the quarter was over the company (who had lead the sales force to believe that there was an uncapped bonus of $850 per percent over goal) had a meeting in Chicago and decided to cut the payout. The reps who reached goal (which is the adjusted 125%, confusing, I know) would now only get $850 up to 120%. There were a few reps who absolutely blew it out and made the company's bottom line look great.... and they were rewarded with $1.00 for every percent over 120. Yes, $1!.... 850 to 1. Hard to believe. So a rep who did 200% of goal made only $80 more than a rep who hit 120%. The $1 was a legal way for the company to avoid a law suit, as several managers and executives told the entire sales force at the meeting, as well as throughout the quarter, the bonus was uncapped. Some reps were even told by their manager that they were going to make 56-60k or more bonuses all the way up to the end of the quarter. But in the end, the company thanked their top performing reps by saying, we aren't paying you more than 120%, period!...Of course, this was affecting their top 10-12 reps!.... You may be asking yourself how does this make sense? Well, you will be asking that forever, cause no one has ever heard of anything even close to this happening before, anywhere! So, as the best reps look for new jobs, the word is out to pretty much shut your sales down and sand bag at 120%. We sales reps are driven by $$$, and when you get only $1 more for over-performing, why continue to sell? It will only hurt you by increasing your goal for the next quarter. Well done Noven!.. One thing that will be interesting to witness is when they introduce the bonus plan for Brisdelle. No one will care!... BTW, you need to learn the words to "We are the Champions" by Queen!... Inside joke.
3)Like any company a manager can make or break you. But again, if you don't have a job, you put up with it until you find a better one. There have been some bad stories about one northeast manager, male.
4)Company pays $600 a month for car. You can't drive a clunker though. Car has to be valued over a certain amount and be within a certain age or your reimbursement drops off. Company pays gas/mileage. It's ok. but not ideal.
5)Training is easy. No worries there.
6)Commission? Well, if you read the previous info, you'll know it changes with the breeze.
7)Base is lower than most companies for reps with experience. Yearly raises are below average.
8) Insurance is ok, again, not ideal.
Hope this helps and good luck!
If you do real well here you will be rewarded with some of the ugliest shoes ever made!
