Zones Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Zones?

"Utilized executive selling skills to build account relationships at the CxO/SVP/VP level while engaging tactically at the business executive and staff level within divisional or department IT initiatives."

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

"Be prepared to hit the ground running and be very flexible to adapt to shifting priorities."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"In an effort to achieve 30% growth, sometimes leadership seemed to have competing priorities and agendas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Expand training regime. Provide more complete departmental integration. Trust in the employees sales plan."

"I worked hard to surpass my goals and did not receive recognition for it."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"Give me the reins to work at reaching my goals"

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

"Company is a little misleading but if your willing to work hard they will keep you around."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"Not being recognized for hard work and extra effort. continually meeting and exceeding goals and not even a good job or atta boy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Tell your workers they are doing a great job and show them how much you appreciate them."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"I enjoy the flexibility to succeed and achieve my personal goals"

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

"It is high energy, high expectations, but also very high reward if you have the motivation and drive to succeed."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"I would like to have more stability and engagement with executive management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest management be more in contact with front line sales to understand what any issues may be."

"We were a very small operation in a very large organization and frequently were lost in the numbers."

"zones is a great place to learn."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"I worked on every part of ecommerce systems and mentored 70 programmers/architect in last 9 years."

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

"interviews are simple."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"Company doesn't provide much opertunity to grow."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"zones is growing and but has too many managers."

"A good place to get experience in direct mail marketing and copywriting."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"I got a lot of experience researching and writing about technology."

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

"Make sure you know how to talk about sports. Don't appear to be too computer literate or competent in your field. Be able shmooze like you're full of booze and have nothing to lose. Because they don't seem to appreciate truly talented people."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"I was paid 40 percent below the prevailing wage, and management kept hiring incompetent people as product managers, preferring personal friends with no experience with computers over computer-savvy people."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Please listen to employees who find errors in your database. I routinely found errors in which more capable computers were listed with prices that were lower less capable ones in the same product line; the product listed on the main screen and advertised in the catalog was different from the one listed in the components of bundled offers, such that the customer would actually get the right computer for the price but with a slower processor, smaller hard drive, home version of Windows instead of the Pro version, etc., and Zones would have pay for its return, pay to ship the one the customer expected, and sell the more expensive model for hundreds below cost. So the more effective my ads were, the more Zones lost money, and because I tried to correct the errors, I was placed on report, and I had to leave."

"Zones is a great place to learn, but has limits for future growth"

What do you like about working at Zones?

"I learned more working for Zones than anyplace in my life, especially training It was vibrant and people skills were a must. I have many good friends and business contacts from Zones."

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

"First time I've applied, so probably not."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"There was not an ability to move toward certain career goals."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"As always, listen more to not only the sales floor, but especially the people who are working everyday to make things tick."

"Great Training and great incentives"

What do you like about working at Zones?

"Great Training on new software, product, & services"

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

"Wonderful place to land your first job or intern."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work with training and managing"

"Pretty good"

What do you like about working at Zones?

"The training. Zones was a company that believed in continual learning. We had daily trainings from so many technology manufactures. I became an expert on so many products because of the continual training. Just rocked out!!!"

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

"Yes, always tell the truth, be very excited and tenacious."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"My previous manager did not like me because of my race."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not allow racism to fester in your company, you will lose awesome employees..like me."

"Insecure management combined by paranoid employees"

What do you like about working at Zones?

"Some of the employees were cool but the senior management are terrible"

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

"If you want to be in a grinder with poor management styles then this is the place for you."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"stuck in a cube farm"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide a more open user friendly atmosphere without management having sexual affairs with employees and then providing them with key account accounts in exchange"

"Good people and a great job. Work/Life balance is very off."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"Commission rate"

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"base pay"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't hire people at a higher base pay than what is given to Vet Sales people"

"Its a good idea & hopefully someone reads it & improves things."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"The schedule"

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

"It is a sales job, so its all about the numbers. Get used to hearing talk time & dials. Good luck."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"Too many politics & not enough promises fulfilled."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More organized & if an individual needs help, they should be more willing to do so."

"Focus on REAL sales support."

What do you like about working at Zones?

"Very well managed organization. Decisions are thought out and acted on in a timely fashion and coordinated throughout the company. Upper management seems in tune with the market and decisions are generally solid."

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

"Not really. This is a very good company. Come with an open mind and be prepared to work."

What don't you like about working at Zones?

"Despite good intentions the follow through on sales support is sometimes poor. Improvements in the web site for ecommerce are slow and sometimes incomplete. Also, the Expert Connect program could use a tune up. Too much reporting and not enough real support."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take a longer look at sales support, particularly in the areas of App Support and QWERTY requests. Responses are often off target and do not solve the issue at hand. Often the person who is resolving the issue could pick up the phone and achieve quick resolution by gaining additional info. Instead the issue is constrained by forcing it through the QWRTY tracking system."