Run run as fast as you can, you cant catch me im the paycheck man.
Pros
Free breakfast. Pretty flexible on life work balance. Not much else to say about pro's zones has really eliminated them over the years.
Cons
If you are reading positive reviews on this site I can almost guarantee these are from people who have worked as zones for less than 2 years. Senior management is ultra greedy and does anything they can to try and rip their employees off any chance they get. The keep spiffs (unitl the manufacture catches them then they just dont take them any more) They force you to buy through vendors distributors that will give zones end of the year kick backs that reps dont get paid on, good accounts and tools to be successful such as flights to see clients money to buy things for clients and the ability for your clients to have a good buying experince is reserved for reps that are the most well liked. Purchasing will go behind your back and shop products, Zones will not allow you to do the same, they call any profit from this "by side margin" again they do not pay the reps on this. They force you to go to useless trainings none of them are of any real benifit and most of them are just a sales pitch from the manaufacture. They do this because they force manufactures to pay a minimum of 50k a year to sells their products at zones. *******LET ME BE STRAIGHT ABOUT THIS ONE SO EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS******* ZONES DOES NOT NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL GIVE ANY KIND OF A RAISE. Nothing for inflation nothing for performance nothing at all. The salary you are hired at is the same salary you will be at the day you leave zones even if it is 20 years later. All Zones does to try and battle this is say "give yourself a raise" needless to say a complete joke. When things get tough in the economy zones makes it even harder to make any money. As I mentioned before zones keeps the majority of spiffs however some manufactures such as HP and lenovo force them to pay to the employees. Zones combats this by placing a "minimum margin requirment" on your sales before you get paid. They dictate what tha minimum margin is a lot of times it makes it to where you can not be competitive so you either lowever your margin to win the deal and not get paid anything or lose the deal and have management harrass you and tell you that you are a failure. Also over the years zones has slowly stopped hadning out any kind of gift cards they dont really allow manufactures to do it and they seem to just not like it. It seems like if zones is not making money on it then they are going to make sure you dont get it either. They treat most reps like children you are not allowed to change prices on items priced under $50 dollars, you are not allowed to see what disti partner has the best cost before you ship the product, they never allow to many people to work from home, unless you are willing to give up your measly base salary and go on a commission only plan. Pretty much everything zones has set up is to ensure that senior management gets paid and you dont. They want you to earn about 50 to 60k a year just enough so that you just dont up an quit but not enough to ever really get ahead. In todays market with inflation for a sales job that is almost a waste of time, the whole reason people work in sales is to make money good money because it is one of the most hated jobs there is. You try cold calling people all day long have the cuss at you hang up the phone and tell you that they have tried zones in the past and had a terrible experience for 50k a year.
