Cellular Sales reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(3,783 total reviews)
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Dane Scism

76% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Cellular Sales has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,783 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cellular Sales employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Mar 20, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Commission percent is vastly better than other cell phone sales positions. Day to day can be good, as you are more or less left alone to do your work. You are empowered to make your own decisions and let a customer know when their behavior is not acceptable.

Cons

Management expects more than is reasonable from an employee to start with, and then still asks for more. I was given the same quota to meet every single month, whether January or June. When I didn't meet my quota I was expected to come to a 2 day, 2 overnight retraining, frequently at a moment's notice. I frequently had to drive as much as FOUR HOURS each way to training - completely uncompensated. No milage, no hourly, no toll reimbursement. All this to arrive at the hotel and be forced to share a room with another stranger, something I am incredibly uncomfortable with. Everything is done with as little notice given to sales reps as possible. If there's a meeting at 7AM the next morning, expect to find out via email at 10 PM the night before. If there's a mandatory shift that everyone scheduled or not needs to attend, don't expect to know more than a day ahead. There's no such thing as calling out here either. Every shift is covered, always. If you're sick and can't get covered (frequently we only had one person who was even off on any given day, so hoping for short notice coverage is an absolute joke), you'd better come in or suffer the (ALWAYS severe) consequences. If you have MANDATORY training, your shift needs to be covered. Now if you fail to meet your monthly quota, they will assign your entire schedule for the month. Not only that, they REFUSE to take any and all conflicts into account and will schedule you blindly. Good luck getting covered! Hope you aren't planning on taking any classes, going to any events, or having a family! Empowerment goes two ways: If you EVER make a mistake, you will have nowhere to turn. We do not have the same relationship with account managers as similar companies, and you will constantly be given the run around when searching for solutions. There are also ZERO exceptions when it comes to rules, no matter what the circumstances are. If you have not even been provided a key to the building yet by the company (it is the policy of certain stores to not give you a key until you have a day of sales that meets a certain quota), and your only partner opening the store arrives late, or also does not have a key because THEY scheduled incorrectly, you will STILL be punished all the same. You will lose a shift, and you will have the lowest priority for picking shifts in the future (if you actually ever get to). If you forget to wear the right socks, you'll be sent home.

2.0
Mar 9, 2018

Wireless Account Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Schedule can be flexible, potential to make a lot of money

Cons

Schedule is only flexible if you get someone to cover your shift. No PTO, holiday etc pay. If you don't work, you don't get paid. It's 100% commission so sometimes, you work and still don't get paid. Employees are treated as numbers, not as individuals. To make good money, you have to be comfortable making questionable sales and selling things that the customer may not actually want or need.

2.0
Feb 18, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're a halfway decent salesman you really can make pretty good money. And fairly easily when all is said and done...

Cons

-If you want to work with some of the shadiest people you've ever met, then this is definitely the job for you. You'll constantly be questioning the moral fabric of everyone around you, and by extension eventually your own. But not out loud of course because then you'll find your job threatened until you're intimidated into keeping your mouth shut. -You're constantly pressured into sellling products that customers dont really want and are fairly mediocre anyway. -You have to participate in the company's strategy of taking advantage of customers who don't realize the difference between an indirect retailer and a corporate verizon. So they assume they would be getting the same deal either way when actually you're charging them more, in some cases significantly, for the same phone they could get at a corporate verizon. -In the almost complete absence of a managerial structure in the store level, space is made for whoever's ego happens to be throbbing the hardest that day to bark out orders about how they happen to think things should be done. Despite the fact that they have no authority whatsoever. -The company will charge YOU if something in the store goes missing. Wether they can prove you took it or not. So if you have a coworker whos stealing accesories then too bad, everyone on shift gets to split that cost. Honestly I dont know if thats even legal cause it sure seems like it shouldnt be. -Constantly deal with obnoxious, arrogant, and rude customers who wont hesitate to take their day out on you.

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