Pros
The benefits were awesome. The building was great, the break rooms were always well-stocked with coffee and healthy snacks. The location was also good. Most of the people who work there were very friendly and sociable.
Cons
Pitched as a no-experience-necessary sales job, yet from day one you were expected to be a seasoned sales person with little training. Turnover was extremely high, which is not surprising in sales as a whole, but when everyone you started training with are fired within two months of starting, there's an issue. In fact, very few people seemed to have been with the company for more than a year. You were given very little chance to redeem yourself once placed on the chopping block. Management was often unwilling to give any helpful tips or advice when trying to make improvements in order to succeed. They were also quick to reprimand when you weren't doing well, but it often went unnoticed when you were doing well. The job itself was basically telemarketing, dial after dial until someone picked up, then spewing out a pitch before they could hang up on you. You sat in a cubicle all day, headset on, just making call after call. There were entirely too many salespeople calling a too-saturated market. Potential customers often upset over the constant calls from not only sales, but research also, and they often didn't know the difference between the two. Entirely too much emphasis on getting the sale, rather than customer service. The base pay was low and the commission structure was less than desirable. Definitely a job rather than a career, and a short-term one at that.