Fischer Homes reviews

Management starting with the sales managers is awful. If you do not like to be micromanaged, or if you like things done in a timely or efficient manner, this place is not for you. Managers brush you off with reassurance but do not follow through with action. Sales team is treated poorly and there is a mentality of "we are watching you" work atmosphere. It's discouraging. There is a hierarchy of people and the low-down sales people are not allowed to contact the higher ups unless you go through a manager. This is very inefficient and ridiculous when you have follow up questions. Managers need a MUCH better understanding of their product so they can properly answer questions from the customers and their counselors. Some also desperately need time management skills. Managers talk behind their teams backs but are nice to their face. This is a poor work environment. Management has extremely poor communication skills. The division president has an “open door policy” and “I’m here if you have questions” but it is absolutely not true. Sales team is vastly underappreciated. There is a fake sense of “rah rah, you guys are the best” but actions speak louder than words. Managers are all about saying they care but are too lazy to follow through with ever making anything better. The culture they preach is not true to what is actually practiced.

In the Atlanta market, the exteriors of the Fischer homes are extremely ugly and unattractive to buyers, so it is a difficult sell. No one in Atlanta buys an ugly house unless they are price point buyers and don't care. The competition in all price points are all physically a more attractive product, which in this market helps them not us. They do not tell you that you will be video recorded doing fake sales presentations in front of the entire sales team EVERY week. Every single week. And corporate is tooting their own horn for what a great idea this is, but everyone hates it and noone uses the sales model in real life outside the cameras. They will not tell you what community will be yours, and some poor sales people have had their neighborhood changed MULTIPLE times across Atlanta without warning and despite having built up their pipeline. Oh, and while training, you will work in EVERY single neighborhood. No matter where you live, you will drive to every single neighborhood a few times a month. Add up the miles on mapquest for each one before you accept the job and three months of hell on the road. Once you are promoted, its tough. The homes are ugly and sales do NOT flock to your door like other builders. They don't fire anyone, even if you violate policies, don't show up for work, steal leads from other people and close deals with them, or take weeks and weeks off. I was lied to in my interview about how many people had quit this division. I was told about 4 people, its really like 70% of everyone they hire.When I was hired they had 7 counselors juggling 13 neighborhoods via 4 pods. Commission is hard to get paid on, because you are paid on draw of 24k a year so you are constantly paying it back. With low sales, you are always in the red owing money. Build time is 8 months to close and get your full pay. You will be lucky to sell 1 or 2 a month and starting commish was 1.15% I believe. There is lots of training on your days off, including those video recording sessions, which you are required to go to. During your weeks in Cincinnati, you will fly home Friday night and still have to work weekends at the models. Don't plan on seeing your family or friends or pets for the first six weeks. You aren't allowed to take vacation until you have been there 1 year, but you can "borrow" that time at 6 months at your sales managers discretion, but then you have a low number of days off until 2 years when you've earned more. This is such a stupid childish policy. People have lives, and you can afford to hire temps on weekdays since the models are empty anyway. There is no rotating weekend off cycle, you will work every single weekend until you earn time off. And even then, if you request a weekend off you will be made to feel like a horrible person for asking for it and it will probably get rejected.