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Area Sales Manager at Vanguard Modular Building Systems
in Jacksonville, FL

What do you like about working at Vanguard Modular Building Systems?

"Autonomy to set and work my own schedule to maximize my selling expertise."

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

"Be aggressive, confident in your approach to marketing and prospecting."

What don't you like about working at Vanguard Modular Building Systems?

"nothing. Progressive company with industry experience that allows the company to be profitable,"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"get more aggressive when necessary with pricing.Allow seasoned Sales professionals to spend more time in front of the customer."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Sun Microsystems
in Long Beach, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"While at ClearEdge Power, I enjoyed selling the product."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The company downsized their salesforce however while working there my manager was well respected and knew his products."

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

"The company is in restructure mode so I don't have any suggestions at this time."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The product was not performing to spec, which made it difficult to sell to the public."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get the product working to spec before offering the product to the businesses."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Gardner Denver
in Phoenix, AZ

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Consolidation resulted in frustrated clients and lack of compensation."

What do you like about working at Gardner Denver?

"Family atomsphere and sincere dedication to company performance was admirable."

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

"Be mindful of bonus and commission expectations as they are tied to manufacturing performance."

What don't you like about working at Gardner Denver?

"Dependence upon manufacturing that was directly related to sales bonus and commission program."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sell Thomas Division and allow it to function as its' own entity."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific
in Sunnyvale, CA

What do you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"They have good health benifits but the eniviroment is very bad and not much of a fun place to work."

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

"I would advise against working for this company. Find one that will apprecaite what you do."

What don't you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"They are very dis-organized. The management team does not communicate with others."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Got back to t he basic before you lose all your customers and get organized"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Area Sales Manager at PrimeSource Building Products
in Kansas City, MO

What do you like about working at PrimeSource Building Products?

"Nothing much..this group is a bona fide good ol' boy network consisting of people who only know how to MANIPULATE others instead of MANAGING them."

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

"YES, until this group learn how to treat employees, vendors, and customers with some form of respect...I'd stay completely away. You can do better elsewhere."

What don't you like about working at PrimeSource Building Products?

"Just about everything you can think of.. Negative work environment, management by intimidation, a worthless good ol' boy network that has nothing to show for itself."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire some people that know how to lead. Get rid of intimidating types at your KC Branch who are doing nothing but racing your company to the bottom."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Central Salt
in Elgin, IL

What do you like about working at Central Salt?

"Helping the customers solve problems and improve their performance for their customers."

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

"They are not currently hiring, they are only in a lay-off cut back mode."

What don't you like about working at Central Salt?

"Would like to have more interaction with other divisions to see how we all fit in the big picture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More discussion and follow up on individual and company goals."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Macy's
in Fort Collins, CO

What do you like about working at Macy's?

"Advances, people, very new technician, some self management and culture."

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

"Confidence always. Self management type for self schedule. Familiar for computer skills."

What don't you like about working at Macy's?

"Personal future is very limited by regional management team. Need more open."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Developing more talented employees nationally. More HR services to focus a lot of employees."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Pitney Bowes
in Chicago, IL

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"The HR is tying your hands."

What do you like about working at Pitney Bowes?

"Good environment, good people, good equipment, good training, good compensation."

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

"Be yourself, sooner or later everything comes out in the wash."

What don't you like about working at Pitney Bowes?

"The HR is tying your hands, they don't allow you to manage and therefore counterproductive."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow the HR to be the consultants, not manage people."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Home Quarters Warehouse
in Lenexa, KS

What do you like about working at Home Quarters Warehouse?

"I enjoyed helping cutomers gain knowledge of new products and how to complete projects"

What don't you like about working at Home Quarters Warehouse?

"The constant turn over in employees that I continually had to train"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Area Sales Manager at AT&T
in Torrance, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"AT&T is the cream of the crop. I grew up with them, and they invested in me."

What do you like about working at AT&T?

"There was always an opportunity to grow and develop your talent."

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

"Be honest. Be on time for the interview. Relax and have your thoughts together before answering the question. Oh, and listen."

What don't you like about working at AT&T?

"I loved my job, but we moved our office from the beautiful El Segundo area to Carson, CA."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more involved with employees. Have more training sessions off-site, even you need to hold them at another office."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Veolia Environmental Services

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"They have lost their heart."

Person You Work For 1.1 / 5 People You Work With 3.1 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.8 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.1 / 5
Company Culture 1.2 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Aeroflex

What do you like about working at Aeroflex?

"Fairly relaxed atmosphere and some pretty good people at the rank & file level"

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

"Lok elsewhere unless you like being frustrated. There may be some value to working on technologies you like, learn them and then move to a better company."

What don't you like about working at Aeroflex?

"There's no where to go. The pay is mediocre to poor, benefits OK."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put more value on the people in the organization. Folks quit and no one seems to care."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Metso Corp.
in Houston, TX
Person You Work For 3.9 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3.1 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.1 / 5
Company Culture 2.9 / 5 Way You Work 4.1 / 5
Area Sales Manager at Middle Atlantic Products
in Silver Spring, MD
Person You Work For 4.9 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 4.9 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.3 / 5
Company Culture 4.5 / 5 Way You Work 4.7 / 5
Area Sales Manager at CenturyLink
in Salt Lake City, UT
Person You Work For 4.6 / 5 People You Work With 4.8 / 5 Work Setting 4.8 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.8 / 5
Company Culture 4.3 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
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