Pros
Learning EVERYTHING not to do in sales development … and I guess you’ll get a very strong work ethic from being threatened about being put on a PIP/fired week in and week out
Cons
Well let’s call it what it is right of the bat… Mondo is a BS company with awful management (if you even want to call it management??) Company has NO influence in the market… “who is mondo?” - you’ll get that a lot. You’ll be working on a team of inexperienced sales people and recruiters. Don’t get me wrong…. They force you to work at your breaking point and, as a result, you’ll be working with some extremely strong willed (myself and other ex-Mondo employees call it brainwashed) people but at the end of the day… this is an INCREDIBLY competitive market and working alongside your fellow college graduates will not give you the ability to be closing the deals they expect and demand you to. Everyone will leave after a year. Do you see the posts saying that if you’re “dedicated”, if “your heart is in it”, and if you LITERALLY are willing to work 60/70 hours a week EVERY WEEK you’ll make good commission? Cough cough… $45-50k base by the way. PLEASE cut me a break. Other agencies are paying minimum $70k base with ACTUAL unlimited commission (that’s another story) and corporate recruiters make minimum $100k with capped commission on top of that. Trust me, all staffing professionals are working over 40 hours a week, but NONE of us outside of those at Mondo are working 60/70 just to make quota, escape a PIP, or impress our managers. After leaving Mondo, I’ve realized that if I or any of my fellow account executives or recruiters are working that much in a week… it’s just to get ahead and take advantage of the market. Working THAT amount of hours is not done to “survive” like Mondo forces as a minimum. If you’re not working 60 hours at Mondo… good luck to you. Expect impromptu progress meetings with your boss and VP at absurd hours in the morning (which means you’ll get an email at 7:30 AM for an 7:45 AM meeting threatening you with unemployment if you don’t try harder) and a PIP soon after. “Unlimited commission” is a joke. So many accounts don’t get you good revenue because the markups are so low and you will be FORCED to work on those reqs. As a result, you’ll have your recruiting team waste their time on finding candidates for these jobs (and they’ll hold that against you! And management weirdly tries to egg that animosity on??) because Mondo measures your success on the amount of deals closed INSTEAD of the amount of money you’re bringing to the business. This is the most absurd business model I’ve ever heard of. I closed multiple deals that resulted in ZERO commission for myself and for my recruiting part. While the recruiters typically understand that this a fault of management, YOU need to understand they’re just as frustrated (maybe even more so) that they have no control over the fact they’re forced to recruit on something that will make them no commission in a COMMISSION BASED job. As a result, I had to buy my recruiting parts gift cards to Starbucks/target/Amazon etc just to thank them for not giving up. So at the end of the day, I closed a deal and LOST money. Thanks Mondo. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. Mondo has an AWFUL turnover. They know that. How have they combatted it? By making you sign the most absurd “do not compete” agreement the day you get your offer. Do not competes are standard in this industry, understandably so, but a general council exec who has been in this industry her entire career said she has never seen a do not compete as strict as Mondo’s. Mondo is not a starting block for college graduates trying to get in staffing. If you work here for a year after college, you will not be able to contact anyone that has done business with Mondo, or even has simply had a MEETING with you and told you their favorite color, for another year after your departure date. This industry is so competitive that at that point, you might as well be star dust to whoever that hiring manager was. Once you leave Mondo, you need to start your book of business completely from scratch. Believe me when I say how disheartening this is since they force you to work so hard at getting a foot in the door at these companies… and then you realize it’s just so they (management) can take over the account when you leave. You wanna feel used? Become a sales person at Mondo. Become a recruiter at Mondo. Walk through the door at Mondo. And all that for a $45K salary.