Selling Source Reviews

Pros

Pay, benefits package, communication, work versus family time, travel

Cons

communication, work time, organization, management people,

Advice to Senior Management

communicate better with employees

Pros

Very competitive (in a good way) environment with a great deal of incredibly talented people, and a fast paced environment if you like that sort of thing.

Cons

Cherish your paychecks, it may be your last. TSS has a long standing policy of conducting employee purges twice a year, and the only guarantee you have of keeping your job is keeping the boss your buddy, so you don't get pinched. Also TSS has all kinds of ethically challenged business practices which are illegal in many states, but not Nevada, so keep your morals at home. Senior management has a ruthless mafia mentality and will not hesitate to do whatever it takes to 'get theirs' even if it means damaging business units in the process. Also Senior Mgmt has (or had) secret international pager numbers from which the reader can draw his own conclusions.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing. There's a respectable honesty in evil, and it at least is making you sales in the nine figure range.

Pros

Great place to build an internet management career i would recommend working here if given the opportunity good growth potential great management

Cons

standard vacation time off plan have less than the usual holidays have adopted a very corporate atmosphere and has grown to be a very large company

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget the little people

Pros

They were one of the few technology marketing companies in the Las Vegas Valley. Local employers are very familiar with The Selling Source and recognize them on resumes.

The company parties were enjoyable and in great venues.

Peers and equal co-workers got along very well. I found many great friends at The Selling Source. However, there was a disconnect between management and workers.

Cons

High turn-around. Seems unless you were part of the "old guard", you could expect your job to last less than 6 months.

Management was a disgrace. Self-promotion of their friends, without recognition of productive employees. This is definitely an "boys club" where long-time buddies are treated well and driving the Ferraris and Porsches, while the rank and file employees are often undervalued and under-recognized. No annual or holiday bonuses either.

Employees were viewed as expendable, and not a resource. Many peers of mine feared for their jobs on a daily basis, since firings and layoffs seem to have no rhyme or reason. Often times it appeared that "friends" could make error after error and remain employed, but I often saw employees get fired for single minor mistakes (some weren't even revenue loss mistakes). Also, I witnessed on a couple of occasions that a "friend" in management had an internal conflict at a personal level with another employee that didn't report to them, and had that person fired.

Umbrella concept, with many subsidiary companies working under the same roof, sounded good on paper, but wasn't executed cleanly. Many decisions were still made by upper management that prohibited companies from executing on goals and values central to that branches goals. Management kept tight control of what each company was doing, tying the hands of the officers over those companies.

Severe lack of transparency. Management often misleaded employees into thinking things were good news, often to hand them pink slips the next week (or even the next day). Financial statements are closely guarded, so very few know how well the company is really doing. Roles and expectations were defined loosely, often giving employees insecurities of whether or not they were doing good work, or even the right work.

The principle owner of the company instilled fear in employees, not respect. Conversations often left you feeling like you better improve or you would be let go, even when performance and numbers were at a peak.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop promoting friends, and start promoting employees. Invest in your employees to make them stronger and more loyal, you already invested in them by hiring them. Be more transparent in expectations, results, and company doings.

Pros

get paid, and keep track with latest development skills.

Cons

you have to be skilled and knowledgeable because your coworkers are talent people, so ...... you may feel some pressure on yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

improve the way that work time is tracked and analyzed.