Dominion Enterprises Reviews

Pros

Great Benefits, Great lower level management support, Fair compensation, Work from home environment, minimum day travel, Generally, no surprises in terms of work expectations

Cons

As of 2 years ago I would have had a lot to say here...but company policies and processes are much better today. Too many new products are coming out now we are expected to sell...becoming slightly more big brother as far as activity reporting and manager reporting. Only paid $.20/mile for travel.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen more to our customers and their realm of business needs. Need for more product levels-not every customer has same goals/needs/budgets. We need more fair mileage compensation

Pros

Decent amount of vacation time offered, starting pay was OK, benefits are OK, people I work closely with everyday are great.

Cons

Unless you're in a money-making department like IT or sales, you will receive no recognition for hard work, departmental budget gets cut drastically while those at the top receive paid vacations to the Tropics and bonuses, little chance for advancement, trying to get an annual raise is like pulling teeth.

Advice to Senior Management

Give all employees recognition for their hard work, not just those who are already at the top. My coworkers and I aren't asking for paid vacations on a beach, but a certificate of recognition or small bonus for all the extra hours we work would go a long way.

Pros

Relaxed atmosphere. Being that they own multiple businesses in the US they are good about letting you work from almost anywhere, even home.

Cons

You start at the bare minimum pay for your position. Very stingy on increases, they do not pay for the time you put in or added responsibilities. Benefits package is terrible. They don't have your best interest in mind just the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management

Start treating employees as people and not a replaceable object. When you ask or make someone take on more, compensate for it as you wouldn't want to work for nothing.

Pros

Vacation time and time off is good

Cons

Senior management has little interest in how field offices are mismanaged. They would rather lose great sales people and have mediocre sales numbers an office that has not been at budget for YEARS then have to hire someone and replace the bad manager. There are plenty of people looking for jobs that have an understanding of sales and operations out there.

Advice to Senior Management

Care a little more

Pros

Cant think of any good reasons

Cons

they dont care much about peoples personal life. If they don't like you they will figure a way to get you removed. I have seen this with several people

Advice to Senior Management

WAKE UP and recognize who butters your bread

Pros

Local job, health care and 401k offered.

Cons

Overworked, low wages, zero growth potential, incompetent management.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward employees and create a growth and career path for everyone.

Pros

Lots of employee activities/contest.

Friendly, funny, and supportive coworkers

Location in downtown Norfolk

Cons

This is not the place to start a long term career. It's a job and that's about it. We just recently had the hiring/raise feed lifted in 2011 after 3 years.

Favoritism with management, health insurance costs/copays/providers have gone up and changed every year.

Employee reviews take foreverrrrr to complete.

Very low pay

No opportunities to advance

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to the daily tasks/duties of everyone on your team. Promote from within more frequently then every 5 years.

Pros

Great Senior Management - Willing to talk with anyone in the company very friendly
Flexible Hours - In my position at least
Good Benefits - 401k matching
                           - Decent Health Care
                           - 2 Week Vacation a year
Great Customers -
Jack Ross visited our office seemed to have very good ideas about moving the company forward.

Cons

I do the job of three people. Other co-workers frequently "slack off' but receive the same pay and no repercussions. Favouritism abounds especially in the HR department where there are inept lazy employees in good positions not held accountable for what they do. The pay for what I do for the company is no where near what I could receive elsewhere. Office manager yells at people and is downright mean. I have seen employees cry and leave over his harassment.
VERY BAD COMMUNICATION all around.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay people what they are worth
 Stop putting up with slackers - If I were a manager I would tell employees who were not working to leave until they were able to get their a** in gear, if they were not they would be terminated not treated with gifts and fawned over.

Pros

Flexibility with schedule, and overall loyal customers

Cons

Lots of favortism to both employees and clients-Not everyone gets the same thing
Confusing policies
Lack of motivation-use of fear to 'motivate'
unrealistic sales goals and quotas
cut throat politics
Egotistical and dishonest management-driven by own desires
bombardment of new products and endless push for more
Greed

Advice to Senior Management

Managers need to be more aware of what ALL the clients say and think, not just the cream of the crop

Pros

The salary is pretty competitive.

Cons

The local offices are extremely poorly managed.

Advice to Senior Management

There should be some upper management in the local markets to oversee the wrong doings of the sales manager who often take advantage.