Working at Advantage Sales and Marketing in Irvine, CA: 11 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Irvine, CA Area

"Pros: Independent work environment. Good hourly- compensation at $17 an hour. Up to $3000 per year in bonuses. Good benefits-2 weeks vacation and 5 sick days per year. Cons:You work somewhere different every day..sometimes in locations that are 3-4 hours away from home. Unpaid "personal commute" means that the first & last hour AND first 40 miles & last 40 miles of driving everyday are uncompensated. This equates to a potential of 10 hours per week / 400 miles per week that you are not compensated for. There is a lot of driving your personal vehicle an average of 600 miles per week. HUGE geographical territory spanning 3 states. This job kills your car. Who would choose to drive to an office that is 1 hour away from their home for $17 an hour??? Lots of changing priorities and disorganized upper management. You have to have to dedicate your the cargo area of your car and a wing in your home to storing all of the displays, brochures and sales supplies that get direct shipped to your home. My Ford Focus and 400 sq ft apartment are not adequate, however are all I can afford on my salary."

"I worked for ASM for 10 years, both in Channel Markets and later IT. Of the two, while I was appreciative of the move, Channel was better. The hubris, cronyism, damn near nepotism, and general stagnation in personal development forced me to leave. I would have loved to stay there, as the pay was good. But not even a morsel of upward movement caused wide-spread departmental depression, not just in myself."

"I've worked for ASM for 6 years and I found it to be an enjoyable place to work at."

"ASM was a great company to work for until I got hurt on the job and my company no longer backed me."

"This was a good company to work for. The only issue is the days/hours. The schedule is never set or guaranteed a certain amount of hours. This conflicted with my school schedule, and my children's schedule. My managers were great and really tried to help me but upper management was not so great. I would recommend this job for a person who is only looking for part-time employment and nothing permanent."

"I was given a career and valuable training and opportunities."

What do you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"I like that I can work from home 2 days per week."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared to give up your personal life in order to work here."

What don't you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"My Region is HUGE requiring me to spend a large percentage of my week on a plane, in an airport and adjusting to time zone changes instead of actually working. So I work 6 days a week, average of 12 hours per day. They have way too many conference calls - this eats up another 10 hours per week. Also way too many meetings. From Aug to March I will have spent over 7 weeks in meetings."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Set realistic geographies, allow Regionals to set their travel schedules, reduce conference calls and meetings. Let your managers MANAGE."

"Junior Systems Analyst includes monitoring servers and making decisions / writing scripts to improve the quality of the system and ultimately the end user."

What do you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"I love my team. I am surrounded by an immense wealth of knowledge sitting just a stones throw away. From the best DBA's to Developers, if I have a question they are more than willing to help. I am also given a lot of freedom to do my job the way it needs to be done(including setting up my own linux servers and maintaining them myself)."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be Motivated! No one likes a lazy person who can not solve problems for themselves."

What don't you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"I feel that my advancement is limited as far as a developer goes. I have the opportunity to advance my way up the ladder through IT but that is not my cup of tea."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Open up your heart to Linux and you will be greatly rewarded with performance improvements!"

"Great place to work while in school, not a career employer."

What do you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"I liked my co-workers."

What don't you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"My boss was not very helpful when I needed assistance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management that provides employees with adequate resources in order to fufill their job duties."

"The owner is great and the company is marketing focused, however the environment is very strict."

What do you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"The creative aspects."

What don't you like about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing?

"The strict, too corporate environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let the employees express themselves!"