Zones Reviews

Pros

You get to play games while you work and get to see your friends everyday. The people are extra friendly.

Cons

There is absolutely no room for growth or improvement. You have to deal with a lot of highschool kids that thinks they are gangsters.

Pros

Close to buses. Many resources available to learn about the high tech industry. Some decent people to work with. Free food.

Cons

1) Cold calling using crummy preset leads. We had to call the same people over and over to pressure them into buying from Zones. We couldn't find our own business.
2) High turnover. The large numbers of training class members disappeared fast.
3) Upper management doesn't care about the salespeople.

Advice to Senior Management

Let salespeople be salespeople. Your sales metrics which required calling the same people over and over reminded me of the worst type of used car sales.

You don't care about your sales people. You throw a large number of new hires against the wall thinking a few might stick. You seem to enjoy firing associates.

Pros

Good People to work with, allows for a personal life, breakfast almost everyday, working with large companies such as HP, Lenovo, Apple, Microsoft

Cons

Pay is sub standard and so are the benfits, no room for growth, not given the tools to do a good job

Advice to Senior Management

Start worrying about keeping good employess rather than what you pay them

Pros

The location in the rural Seattle area is great. It's not too far away from Tacoma, and the "home town" feel of Auburn is nice. The location is across from the shopping mall, so it is convenient for after work.

Cons

It is a total sales organization. If you are not in sales, you are a nobody, and management always reminds you of that. They demand more, respect less, and continually berate and criticise. Nothing is ever right or good enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Get over yourselves. Zones success is not due to management, but to the great people who actually do the work.

Pros

Employee discounts. Poor quality of coworkers (Zones pays very poorly) so easy to stand out. Lots of free unhealthy food to make you fat. Few large employers in the South Sound that aren't Boeing, so nice to have another option.

Cons

Frugal is an understatement. This is one cheap company. Companies need to realize bragging about how much they want to grow while paying your employees very poorly is no real way to inspire them. Cubicles depending upon where you end up being seated are very small and public and many of them don't have walls at all other than an 18" divider.

Advice to Senior Management

I understand you can't pay everyone who works for you a king's ransom, but if you want quality work, performance, job satisfaction and longevity, you have to selectively seek out key players and compensate them meanwhile cutting the slackers. Paying people poorly results in people who don't care slacking and those who do becoming extremely dissatisfied and frustrated.

Pros

Great co-workers, good place to learn. There are opportunities for professional growth. The corporate office location is great. Work hours are fairly flexible.

Cons

Not a healthy environments. Management doesn't care about retaining their employees. Turn over rate is extremely high, people either get fired, laid off or just walk away from their jobs. Salaries are low and benefits are poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Take better care of your employees. It is a lot more expensive to hire and tran new employees than to retain your current talent. Don't let go Auburn employees that have extensive experience so you can hire 4 employees in India to do the same job that have no idea what they are doing.

Pros

some time offers free lunch, most co-workers are very nice.

Cons

This is NOT good place....
1. Managers micro-manage, threat and lie
2. Take advantage employees ... they don't pay enough to cover gas when you use your own vechile
3. Terrible travel policies -- they may rather you spend 4-5 more hours(that is your time) on the road to save $40-50. you are required to share a room with your co-worker when travel together.
4. NOT decent management -- When you give them leaving notice, they will get rid of you as soon as they can not wait until the end of 2 week period. NEVER give them notice

Advice to Senior Management

Good luck in find right people when the economy is picking up

Pros

In this economy if you are in need of a paycheck and have some sales background....go for it. They are always hiring people there (red flag). It is not uncommon to see at least 20 people per month go through training. Sounds like a revolving door to me. The HR department is paid by the amount of warm bodies they bring through the door not by the quality of the staff.

Cons

Yikes, Yikes and double Yikes!!!! What was I thinking to say the least? First off, they take at least 4 months of training and cram it into 1 month. Next, they never emphasize that they expect you to maintain an average of 90% on tests during training or you will be terminated. If you fail a test they do not sit with you to review mistakes nor are you allowed to take your tests home to study...You are told that you must destroy all copies of your tests. Also, you would think in a corporate setting their would be an enforced dress code and I saw some women there dressed to the point of making a truck driver blush. There is a lot of favoritism there with some people I feel that would be better suited working at 7-11. Trainers and management pick and choose who they awant more, very poor management style.

Advice to Senior Management

It is my opinion that management / executive straffhas no idea what is happening on the sales floor. As far as the executives there all of them need to be retrained and get out of the office to see what is truly going on there. Firoz your company is a sham of an operation and you need to be more proactive in your company. I would not advise Hitler to work there.

Pros

lateral movement is acceptable- if you want to try new positions it's easy to move around. You truly can work as little or as much as you want to.

Cons

management does not promote individual achievement. Employer/employee relations at times inappropriate. Very much a 'good ol boys' network

Advice to Senior Management

More female leadership, more transparency on company goals. Better health co-pay coverage would have been nice. Encourage upward career movement.

Pros

in this horrible economic situation, it was a place to pull a paycheck
free food stuff in the hallways, as long as you listen to vendors tell you why their product is best
hours were great, cant be beat
co-workers are awesome!

Cons

favoritism of management towards certain woman employees. (wont go any further into that)
the fact that after i was hired they hired groups of 20 or more people every month (extremely high turn-over and expected turn-over)
management staff will de-rail any attempts at a promotion if you're not 'with the program'
after leaving you can't put the place on your resume because companies will see you worked for one of the 'annoyances' that call them every day and ignore you.or blacklist you.
upper management and HR dont care about their staff but would rather quietly sweep them under a rug.

Advice to Senior Management

Firoz, your company is a publicity nightmare waiting to happen. The days of old corporate scandals are over, you cant get away with the crap youre doing any longer. Get your act together and clean up your company or i forsee bad things happening for this corporation.