Renewal by Andersen reviews

You can EASILY make between $150,000 and $200,000 in your first year! In fact, if you ONLY clear $150,000 you're one of the low producing reps. (Neither of these statements are REMOTELY true, but that's what you’re told so you so you'll actually consider the job) But one quick glance around the office will tell you that there isn’t one Sales Rep making NEARLY that amount. The interview was a joke. No questions about your experience. No questions about your training. In fact, there are very few questions because they don’t care about your experience since you’re essentially there to read a script to the homeowner. I was offered the job because I was “intimidating” -- meaning that they believed that people would do what I say. Their whole shtick is control. You’re supposed to tell people where to sit, nod when you nod, agree with you when you say parts of the script, and they demand that both people are home for the pitch (to eliminate the, “I have to talk to my significant other” excuse. I don’t’ know why they even waste actual sales reps time because there’s ZERO selling in the traditional sense. You walk in, tell people where to sit, open your laptop and follow the prompts and script. Literally, a 5-year old could do this job. If you don’t get the sale (which 99% of the time you won’t because their windows are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive) pack up your little traveling tradeshow and move on to the next appointment. No follow up, no building of relationships with customers -- you’re a door-to-door traveling window salesman. If that doesn’t make you depressed enough. You don’t actually plan out your week because you’re assigned your appointments every single morning. Oh, and the person that assigns your appointment is competing with the rest of the sales team -- so guess who gets the best leads? They don’t pre-qualify their leads. If a person calls to ask for a quote, they send someone to the house. Given that the average price for each one of their windows is $2,000, you’d think that they’d qualify a little more. Nope, I got sent to a housing area where the average property value was below $40,000. They wrote a contract saying they would pay me $1,200 per week for the first 3 months – after that, it was straight commission with the rep getting 10% of every sale. A month and a half in they stop paying that $1,200 per week saying that you’ve had enough training where you should be making double that. Total liars, swindlers and cheats. If you look at their job postings now -- it says $1,200 per week for 30 days. Other highlights of this mobile telemarketing tenement includes: • No company paid insurance benefits • No company matching 401K • No company car • No mileage expenses • No cell phone allowance • No company provided laptop • No company provided iPad You got the privilege of paying all of your expenses and providing the technology yourself! On my first day, I came in for their sales meeting and their sales tips were straight out of ‘Glengary Glenross’. I realized quickly how much of an end of the sales line job this company is running. I was forced to shadow a couple of reps for the first 10 appointments. Literally, I didn’t see one successful sale closed. Soon after I started there, the company was throwing a company sponsored picnic one weekend and invited all the employees and their spouses to attend. I wanted my wife to have a chance to meet some of the people that I worked with so we start driving to the location they had booked which was right dead center of the freaking hood. After spending as little time as possible there, we left and found out later that one of the employees car window was broken and her purse stolen (nifty) but the best part, the sales team got an e-mail asking for us to pitch in $40 each to help replace her window because apparently the company wasn't going to cover it. Real class act.. They’ll send you all over the state for appointments. One Sunday my first appointment was 70 miles from my home. My second appointment was 125 miles from my first appointment. My third appointment was 60 miles from the second appointment and 51 miles back to my house. Total miles driven for ZERO sales: 306 miles. And this happened almost on a daily basis. If your local economy falls to pieces and this is the ONLY sales job in your state -- Move.

There's a lot of horrible things I can tell you about this company, but I'll just put it in one simple list. Horrible training, they give you two days and throw you to the wolves. They also sit you in a room to watch a video of a man named David Yoho.. lecturing you, and not showing you. No hands on. It's just terrible. They hire and fire like a time a dozen- you think you've found a great job, well think again, you will be required to get a ton of set appointments that usually fall through. And then after all your hard work, they will tell you your numbers aren't good enough, and kick you out th door without a second thought. They treat people terrible. Unfriendly co workers and management- don't be so sure you've found a friend in the business. This is the most two faced company I have ever worked for. To top it off, the managers will be talking bad about you, but never let you know what you may be doing wrong and never help to say the least. Also most other agents are just overly competitive and need to slow their role because they ain't no better than to be the next one they weed out. Employees management relationships - there's a lot of favoritism going on let's just say that. The company expects WAY too much- most people have new windows and doors, and we can't chance that. But with that, it will equal you having a very temporary job, and they don't care. They will throw you out in a quick snap of your fingers. Don't waste your time here. Get a REAL sales job.