Pros
Fischer definitely sets you up for success. No matter what city you live in, you will start your first day at Fischer's corporate office for a day of H.R. stuff with their incredible HR team. Truly great people. You will spend 3 full work weeks in Cincinnati training in their little University. They pay for your travel, including baggage fees and airport parking (although noone will tell you that beforehand), and the hotel they put you up in is very nice with great breakfast and a gym next door, L.A. Fitness, that you can use for free with your hotel key. Pay is on average 36k salary while in training, plus a 3k bonus when you get promoted to Sales Counselor, then you get salary for 90 days plus commission on the tiered structure. Those three months are gold. After that, the salary disappears and you are on draw of 24k paying that back and its all downhill. Insurance cost is comparable to any job thanks to government changes. The people who worked there were a really fun group of people.
Cons
In the Atlanta market, the exteriors of the Fischer homes are extremely ugly and unattractive to buyers, so it is a difficult sell. No one in Atlanta buys an ugly house unless they are price point buyers and don't care. The competition in all price points are all physically a more attractive product, which in this market helps them not us. They do not tell you that you will be video recorded doing fake sales presentations in front of the entire sales team EVERY week. Every single week. And corporate is tooting their own horn for what a great idea this is, but everyone hates it and noone uses the sales model in real life outside the cameras. They will not tell you what community will be yours, and some poor sales people have had their neighborhood changed MULTIPLE times across Atlanta without warning and despite having built up their pipeline. Oh, and while training, you will work in EVERY single neighborhood. No matter where you live, you will drive to every single neighborhood a few times a month. Add up the miles on mapquest for each one before you accept the job and three months of hell on the road. Once you are promoted, its tough. The homes are ugly and sales do NOT flock to your door like other builders. They don't fire anyone, even if you violate policies, don't show up for work, steal leads from other people and close deals with them, or take weeks and weeks off. I was lied to in my interview about how many people had quit this division. I was told about 4 people, its really like 70% of everyone they hire.When I was hired they had 7 counselors juggling 13 neighborhoods via 4 pods. Commission is hard to get paid on, because you are paid on draw of 24k a year so you are constantly paying it back. With low sales, you are always in the red owing money. Build time is 8 months to close and get your full pay. You will be lucky to sell 1 or 2 a month and starting commish was 1.15% I believe. There is lots of training on your days off, including those video recording sessions, which you are required to go to. During your weeks in Cincinnati, you will fly home Friday night and still have to work weekends at the models. Don't plan on seeing your family or friends or pets for the first six weeks. You aren't allowed to take vacation until you have been there 1 year, but you can "borrow" that time at 6 months at your sales managers discretion, but then you have a low number of days off until 2 years when you've earned more. This is such a stupid childish policy. People have lives, and you can afford to hire temps on weekdays since the models are empty anyway. There is no rotating weekend off cycle, you will work every single weekend until you earn time off. And even then, if you request a weekend off you will be made to feel like a horrible person for asking for it and it will probably get rejected.