Red Ventures Reviews

Pros

Good place to work and start your career

Cons

High-stress but high-reward type culture

Pros

$500 guaranteed commission for the first 6 months, no cold calling.

Cons

The trainers make you want to blow your brains out, they are all the weirdest people within 20 miles of your location concentrated into a single company. Let me tell you what you do here. Utility companies toss customers to you (most unknowingly since they use very abstract language to just try to get them over to you) where you will then try to upsell them. You lie to them constantly, starting by just telling them you are going confirm their utility info. You try getting them to subscribe to email coupons and Walmart+ (which ticks just about everyone off immediately), then you will try to sell them internet and TV sevices. Even if they have a service already set up or they are in their living room right now setting up a new service, you will try and upsell them. You are encouraged to lie and act as if you are getting the customer special discounts even though everything is preset based on location. You have to be a special kind of soul to do sales, and not a good one. They also give you the tiniest cut of what you actually earn them, the whole company is off their rocker and shouldn't even exist. Stay away.

Pros

"Share some things this company is doing well"..... 1. Keeping up appearances 2. Burning out their staff 3. fueling toxic masculinity, encouraging workplace retaliation, and rewarding manipulation 4. Living by their motto - "Everything is written in Pencil" Including: - Your job description - Your salary - your reputation - your value -you As we know, these reviews will never be 100% objective and my experience will never be exactly the same as someone else's. But there is one thing we all (mostly) have in common. High school. So, if after reading all of these reviews, you're still not sure just ask yourself one question. "If you could go back and relive high school tomorrow would you? If the answer is yes, then you will thrive here.

Cons

As for the culture/workplace - It is an incredibly competitive atmosphere. If you are not a recent graduate or someone who is looking to climb the corporate ladder to Director and beyond, "manage" a team , manipulate your colleagues or do leaderships bidding, this is not the place for you. Just do your research and as someone who didn't read glassdoor until 2.5 years into it, I can validate all of it. PS: This may be common practice, but was news to me so I am including it for anyone who finds themselves in this situation now or in the future. - If you get acquired by this company, update your resume immediately and get out. Within 6 months it will feel like invasion of the body snatchers and everyone you know will suddenly be replaced by or report to someone from another RV brand, an intern, or a coordinator from their internal 'non-profit' aka cheap labor mill. Just cut and run. If you happen to be someone with a unique skill or tons of legacy knowledge within your business or team, just keep it to yourself, otherwise you will be one of the first ones out.

Pros

Interesting, technical work to grow/develop skillsets

Cons

Leadership is currently changing direction a lot.

Pros

Decent pay, made great friends, looks AWESOME on your resume if you can stay for any length of time & can open lots of doors, phenomenal sales training

Cons

Let me say first of all, when I first started there I LOVED my job (RV only occupied 1 1/2 floors of one building at that time) THEN they got too big for their britches after they went super corporate, and instead of it being like a family there, everyone just became a number and it became HELL. I hated it and it was no longer worth any amount of money. CAN LEAD TO ALCOHOLISM/SUBSTANCE ABUSE to deal with the constant stress/abusive work environment; literally had emotional breakdowns; you have to "get permission" to go to the bathroom, take a break, etc, if you are literal SECONDS late, it counts as a tardy and three tardy's = termination; if you say certain words incorrectly (or don't say them) you can be terminated if you miss your sales targets by mere .01 percentage points it can cost you hundreds to thousands of dollars in commissions (even if it's not your fault ie. wrong numbers, dropped calls, etc)... I could go on and on but.

Pros

Great managers Amazing training A great place to start off in sales to jump start your career

Cons

A lot of spam calling at night

Pros

Subsidized food. Made lifelong friend due to be so miserable constantly. Misery loves company applies 1000% here.

Cons

One of the worst 3.5 years of my career was spent here. One word to sum up this entire company is “inconsistent.” From hiring practice, titles, salaries, vision, to culture, work hours , literally everything is inconsistent here. Also be prepared to record all your conversations with your managers because they might gaslight you. HR is useless too so don’t think HR can help you with your sexist or racist bosses. If you’re and engineer, for the love of all that is holy do not come here. Every day you stay here the more you fall behind in the industry and you won’t even know any better. Don’t just take my word, you can do a search on google for this monstrosity and see how they’ve been going downhill and going through multiple rounds of layoffs.

Pros

If you’re on the right team you will have flexibility. Can get some good experience early in career.

Cons

If you’re on the wrong team, life will suck. Compensation is a joke and always super low. Leadership is comprised of some not very good people to work with.

Pros

Clear pay structure, promote from within

Cons

If you live outside of their career paths, you're a bit lost. SUPER corporate.

Pros

There are some teams where people seem to enjoy their jobs. Analysts and upper management are well paid and respected.

Cons

Every creative I know leaves this place with trauma. Bottom line, the company does not care about writers, editors, social strategists, and other creatives. It relies on our work, but the rest of the business sees us as nothing more than task rabbits, which is why morale among creative is so low. Constant micromanaging of creative from other teams is the norm, and leadership on creative allows it to happen because it’s a deeply rooted problem in RV culture. Analysts have never respected what we do, and it shows in how we’re treated — ideas shot down, talked down to in public, junior analysts bossing senior editors around, and general unprofessional nastiness. Those behaviors are incentivized among analysts. If you get hired as a writer/editor, expect daily “emergencies,” disrespect/micromanaging from other teams, zero mentorship or L&D, and constant restructuring. Oh, and now they are replacing many editorial jobs with an AI-powered tool.