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"A fully commission sales job is not for the faint of heart."
Posted 11 years ago in Sarasota, FL
Sales Associate at Shoe Show
Person You Work For 4.8 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4.6 / 5
Support You Get 4.6 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.4 / 5
Company Culture 4.2 / 5 Way You Work 4.2 / 5
Sales Associate at RadioShack
in South Euclid, OH

What do you like about working at RadioShack?

"I enjoy retail sales, meeting and satisfying customer needs and exploring the new technologies that this industry has to offer."

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

"Interview with direct phone companies and compare training programs for each."

What don't you like about working at RadioShack?

"Unrealistic Quotas for phone sales and never offering local budget for advertising."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay their Managers for the time and hours required to do the job and manage the untrained sales personnel."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Sales Associate at RadioShack
in South Euclid, OH

What do you like about working at RadioShack?

"I enjoy retail sales, meeting and satisfying customer needs, and exploring the new technologies that this industry has to offer."

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

"Interview with direct phone companies and compare training programs for each."

What don't you like about working at RadioShack?

"I don't like unrealistic quotas for phone sales, and never offering local budget for advertising."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay managers for the time and hours required to do the job and manage the untrained sales personnel."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Sales Associate at Macy's
in Etiwanda, CA

What do you like about working at Macy's?

"Just my coworkers, we all got along and became close friends."

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

"As long as you stand out, in a positive way, to the HR manager and listen to the instructions during the group interview, anybody should be fine. Not all of the managers are as horrible as mine, some of the other department managers are down right awesome."

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

"For some reason the company wouldn't do anything to fix the situation with that department manager. She would talk down to people and she had a very hard time understanding confidentiality."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My manager needs to learn to be a better person and learn to be confidential and not to transfer her anger to us when we are not at fault."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Sales Associate at Dick's Sporting Goods
in Rockaway, NJ
Support You Get 4.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.2 / 5
Company Culture 4.1 / 5 Way You Work 3.9 / 5
Sales Associate at US Air Conditioning Distributors
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3.3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.6 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.3 / 5
Company Culture 3.5 / 5 Way You Work 3.8 / 5
Sales Associate at Coca-Cola
Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Sales Associate at T.J. Maxx
in Lake Zurich, IL
Person You Work For 3.7 / 5 People You Work With 3.8 / 5 Work Setting 3.8 / 5
Support You Get 2.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Sales Associate at Costco
in Grand Rapids, MI

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Enjoyed working environment and coworkers."

Person You Work For 4.5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Sales Associate at Adidas
in Grove City, PA
Person You Work For 3.5 / 5 People You Work With 3.6 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2.1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3.9 / 5 Way You Work 4.9 / 5
Sales Associate at OfficeMax
in Manchester, MO

What do you like about working at OfficeMax?

"Fun, nice workers exciting, rewarding, fun, awesome, protection plans and paper."

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

"Be confident, be able to sell the manager a pen or something like that. You got it dude."

What don't you like about working at OfficeMax?

"When customers were rude, when they brought in pets that peed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep working hard, Vern Allison rocks, get advice from him. Be nice to employees."

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
Sales Associate at Neiman Marcus
in San Francisco, CA

What do you like about working at Neiman Marcus?

"I like the good reputation and products. There is a pretty good customer base, and certain long-time employees are good."

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

"Be prepared to offer great service, but the real goal is to sell."

What don't you like about working at Neiman Marcus?

"I dislike the terrible management and lack of communication. Benefits are horrible. Marketing and advertisement are terrible. New employees have a tough time building a customer base."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Refinance the junk bonds which are holding back the company, and put some money into the stores."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Sales Associate at Sears
in Columbia, SC

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Not a career for full-time."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Sales Associate at Hollywood Tans
in Lancaster, PA
Person You Work For 3.1 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 4.9 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.8 / 5
Company Culture 3.1 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
Sales Associate at Macy's
in Fairfax, VA
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 4.7 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
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