ADT Security Employee Reviews for Commercial Account Representative

What do you like about working at ADT Security?

"The widely varied pace of projects that demanded creativity and technical excellence. The clients that I met with daily."

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

"Beware that in all sales areas the attittude has become one of turn and burn. Do not thinkd that you will be there beyond a year or two."

What don't you like about working at ADT Security?

"In the end having a manager that would lie to me and not support my efforts andd actively seek to undermine my professional relationships.. I brought in a 40K job and had him not want it because it would be installed in Las Vegas. It wouldn't benfit him. It would benefit me though and was competitvely bid with the LV branch's input. In the end, this was a factor in my departure because I failed to meet quota duing the period that tthis was sold/rejected. This manager also was co-dependant."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To treat people more as human beings rather than as cattle. To have more respect for fellow team workers. The metric idea has been taken to far and has lost sight of what it was intended to accomplish. To bend quality and falsify reports to meet metric goals is wrong."

What don't you like about working at ADT Security?

"They LIED about everything. There is no way to make money there in commercial sales. Each territory already has like 3 other account reps in it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Inform new people that they have to compete for business within their own territory with the small business rep, household rep, existing account rep, as well as competition from outside the company."