Work/Life balance
This was a big one for me. although I put "friends" as a pro, it did come with a price. Sometimes I would have to drive 1 hour to get to the location to market, then I would market for 5-7 hours, then drive 1 hour back (At least with my experience, I'm not sure if the work/life balance is better now?). Also, Power has event booths, think of the Auto Show, or a carnival, and you have to set up 1-2 hours earlier than usual in order to be prepared for the day, then, you have to bring the tent and other equipment back to the office after the event is over. There usually was weekly team outings which were basically required to go to, and also monthly culture nights and not attending was a little frowned upon. Weekly leadership meetings, department meetings, monthly sales and marketing meetings also added to it. I would also say, if you aren't super extroverted, the day to day job will make you mentally exhausted and you may need a good 30 minutes to 1 hour to mentally recuperate as well. At one of the company yearly kickoffs, the CEOs talked about "The 4 Burners" the 4 Burners are, Family, Social, Career, and Health. And in order to be successful, you can only pick 3. And one of the CEO's said if you want to be successful in this career, you can have your "Social" burner in Power. Basically, all your friends will become people that work at Power. If you're fine with having a Power family and everything being within Power, then this would not be a con. But, if you want to separate your social life from Power, it's possible but 100% hard to do in which case, this is a con.
Day To Day
It's a sales job, but I know you're wondering what the day to day is like. You'll be hired on as a Customer Development Representative initially. Around 10-11am you will get in the company van with your team. Between 12-6pm, you will be knocking door to door, trying to schedule an appointment for a Remodeling Consultant ( aka sales rep) to come over and give the homeowner a free estimate. So yes, you're not selling anything of monetary value as a Customer Development Representative. During my time when it was cold, I had to wear 4 pairs of socks, 5 layers consisting of jackets and thermal meshware, and I also brought hand warmers with. Marketing in 0 degree weather is no fun. Be prepared to walk 7-12 miles a day too. If you need to use the washroom, you're going to have to use your sales skills to get a homeowner to trust you to let you in their home. If not, you're going to have to hold it (Hope I gave you a good giggle, but it's true). You also will experience a high volume of rejection. Say you knock on 50 doors in a day. 20 of those people will answer the door, and of those 20 people, around 15 people will not be interested in what you're trying to say. It's part of sales, I know I listed it as a con but I thought it would be fair to do so because the majority of people would feel as if it were a con.
As a sales representative, you'll be on call 4 days of the week all the way until 8:00PM and on call on Saturdays until 2:30pm. You can be assigned to go to a homeowners house 1-2 hours away from you. Then for example, you come back home, check your clock see it's 7:59PM and assume you're done for the day. but 1 minute later you get a text message saying you have to go run another appointment 1-2 hours away again. These appointments can take anywhere between 2 1/2 hours all the way until 4 hours.
Gas and Car depreciation
You will be driving a lot of miles and depreciating your car as well as having to pay for your own gas. Expect to drive about 40-70 miles a day. It all depends on where your assigned your appointment.
Upper Management Decisions (while I was there)
The upper management was not consistent with their word when I was there. I'll leave it at that. I would assume things have gotten better.
