Low base salary, zero work-life balance... Okay for new grads looking for experience, - Account Executive Ricoh Employee Review

3.0
22 Jun 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good experience for recent grads - if you can stick it out for 18-24 months, and do a halfway decent job, you'll have recruiters fighting over you. Good stepping stone to higher-paying sales jobs. If you can sell copiers, you can sell anything.

Cons

Extremely high turnover. Most employees last less than a year, and turnover here is higher than the rest of the industry. Low base pay, extremely low commission and bonus opportunity, even if you're over quota. Managers are forced to micromanage all employees, regardless of performance. If you want to do well here, you need to work at least 12 hours a day - be in the office before 7, get out in the field by 9, back to the office at 5, don't leave til 7 or 8. Internal processes are a nightmare right now, due to the Ricoh/IKON merger, inventory constraints and billing issues. Way too many internal meetings and pointless trainings.

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5.0
14 May 2026
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Pros

Great Culture, perks, and benefits

Cons

Long tenures mean moving up will take a bit more time.

3.0
26 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

• Decent pay • Great benifits • Car allowance/reimbursement for a personal vehicle and depreciation • The ability to travel and build relationships with customers • Learning mechanical and electrical skills • Independence and teamwork

Cons

• They just started enforcing the new commute policy which requires technicians to now give the company an hour of their time to and from work, if the customer is that distance away from their home at the beginning or end of day. Ultimately stealing up to 2 hours from the technician every single day and effectively punishing you for living so far away from a customer site. • Always coming with new ways to screw over technicians. They also just implemented new metrics that contribute to or take away from your bonus. • Sales reps usually always get the wrong equipment delivered to a customer and you have to be the one to deal with a screwed up mess • Lack of communication between sales/deliveries/management

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