PepsiCo Sales Representative Interview Questions & Reviews

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Reason for Declining

I have over seven successful years’ sales and management experience in the food and beverage industry (All DSD Sales) and they offer me the same as entry level pay non-negotiable. They stress the fact early on about working 10-12hr days and weekends for about $45,000 a year. Expect to open new accounts, up sell existing accounts, merchandise accounts and if delivery was not made, load your car with goods and deliver it.

I decline offer because they took a few weeks to contact me (thank my lucky stars) and I accepted another offer with better pay and work/life balance. Another, is this company is a multibillion dollar company with small company pay and problems. The company is top heavy. You can see the salaries of the pencil pushers close to or at six figures. While the frontline revenue generators are overwork and underpaid with $40,000 salaries. Is one of the few companies that I have heard paying a salesman a salary with no commissions. They do this to save a few dollars while stressing you to sell until you break and they hired the other high hopes, ambition, and upbeat salesperson. It’s a sales rep assembly line at PepsiCo. Look at all the job postings, 90% is Sales Rep.

My recommendation is if you are unemployed or think making about $45,000 a year is allot of money, then go for it. But I recommend you look at the pencil pushers salaries in this site and think to yourself if its alot of money while you worked generating their salaries 55+ hours a week and weekends while they look down on you, bust no sweat in air condition offices, and enjoy their 9-5 work schedule with weekends and holidays off. Not for me, I have been in this game for too long. Do the math. $45,000/2640 yearly hours (55+ hrs weeks) is $17 bucks an hr. The sad part about this is Sales Reps supposed to be a professional, entrepreneurial, high pressured and result oriented position. My profession (Sales) has been bastardized and oversimplify to the point that you are as highly regarded and paid as much as the warehouse truck loader in this industry. Sad. Time will tell if this is the correct approach. Short term gain yes, long term I am not too sure about.
Good luck. There are leaner and smaller companies with great personnel and excellent work/life balance that pays about the same or more if you break down the hrs worked.

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