Pros
Beautiful Environment. Sales Team has fun activities. Most people in sales are around the same age (20's to young 30's). Stepping stone to qualify yourself into sales as a career.
Cons
Pay is below average. Do not expect to be impressed. Videos on Phenomenex website is misleading - the CEO doesn't show his face to the sales team unless it is to humiliate them for not making him enough money. Sales team gossips more than teenage girls. Sales territory can determine how much money you make from pushes and sales goals. No matter how hard you try to push the product, some territories have more opportunity than others. If you exceed your yearly sales goal, you are expected to exceed even further the following year. There is a threshold that a sales territory reaches due to budget, needs, companies staying in business, etc. Sales is not linear, but upper management goals you as if it were. Upper management guilt people to come in on weekends or stay late if they are to be seen as "committed to their job." Philanthropy Work seems more like tax write offs than anything else.