Great Company to Work for but... - Sales Associate Comcast Employee Review

5.0
19 Nov 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Most of Comcast offices are very diverse and backed by a very strong culture. Working as a Xfinity Sales Associate, you are given the freedom to work your turf as you wish. Your schedule is also very flexible as long as you spend 6 hours in the field. Comcast also provide you with the tools (iPad, iPhone, SFA, Sales Support, Customer Account Access) that's needed in the field to escalation problems that may occur. Great benefits (courtesy service) also.

Cons

Since I started working for Comcast, I have seen multiple changes that affects our ability to close a sale, i.e., You cannot place customers deposits on the first bill any more, it's due at the time of sale. There is no way to schedule a job to meet most customer preference. Whatever dates and time-windows are available, that what you get. Before, you could schedule a customer for an 8am-8pm time window to get a better date. Now the biggest one, YOU CANNOT SELL SERVICE to MDUs. Outside of your turf most people will recognize you as a sales rep and most people want to know what types of deals you have. If that person lives in a MDU, you can call in the sale, but you won't get paid for it. So, it make you not want to market yourself like every sales person should. Most of the supervisor became supervisors after these changes took place so it very difficult to get them to understand why it's so hard to hit your quota consistently. To them, it's hit your quota or else, which makes it very difficult to trust that they will escalate the struggles we are having and it affect every reps motivation and confidence everyday.

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Pros

team comradery was pretty good. supervisor and manager were pretty awesome

Cons

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5.0
28 Feb 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working at Comcast has given me the opportunity to develop myself; take the time to grow and learn, and that was really important to me during the time in my life when I joined the company. If you have the drive and ambition, there are a ton of ways in which you can grow into a leader if that's what you want to be. I took advantage of the continued education benefit and am finishing my masters degree now... I also joined a couple of the employee resource groups which offer seminars and networking events that support your professional profile. Listen, I'm not a total nerd. The point of my post is that this isn't a company you join and just stay stale within. They encourage your growth, but it's up to you to make it happen. Not only this - it's pretty exciting. We're busy and we have big jobs to do. My salary is in the top percentile for my industry but not only this, I again get the continued education (which is ~$6K/year) plus free cable/internet, top health care benefits and a truly balanced lifestyle - which is rarely the case within the Tech industry.

Cons

Telling people you work at Comcast triggers 2 typical responses: 1) A big hatred rant on customer service 2) A how do I get my foot in the door? The reputation of the company is difficult, but the style of the company is to stay humble - I've never seen the company defend themselves against the harmful and discrediting news that exists. I personally think they should defend themselves a little more - they are between a rock and a hard place in many instances of service. I personally experienced visiting someone's home where the issues they were having with their connection was due to a tree root growing into the cable lines which had been their for over 20 years. Things like that cannot be diagnosed over a phone call. It's hard work in the field for sure. Being a part of the corporate side sometimes we're too disconnected from what's happening on the frontline. So I think the size of the organization comes with its complications, but again if you're a working professional looking for an exciting, robust and sexy career, you can comfortably have it here.

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