Understand what it is - Anonymous employee Echo Global Logistics Employee Review

Echo has had extreme difficulties with turnover. They are currently conducting lunch and learns where they provide employees who have been around more than a 1-2 years to ask why they have stayed. The number of employees with stay after year 1 is 40%. 40%! THIS IS A HORRIBLE RETENTION NUMBER. The job market can be scary at entry level. When you interview know the different types of commission structures and ask questions about how quickly people begin making commission. On average most sales reps do not break through commission for a year and a half 2 years of time. You also are not paid until your customers pay, and companies who work with logistics companies are notorious for paying late. They do not tell you this, they dance around it because they know this is not competitive with there competitors. If necessary use this to get that experience and get out, there is little room for growth and every year they cut commissions for existing reps. They do not want to invest in you because so far they have made stock holders happy and thats the bottom line: if you leave its because you didnt work hard enugh, you didn't put in the hours, "logistics isnt for everyone" Get in and get out. Plenty of other fun, young places to work that will invest in you pay you or both.