Sales - Sales Representative Cintas Employee Review

4.0
Jun 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great sales training both at start and ongoing. Very Structured which is good at the beginning as it gets you moving in the right direction. Comp plan can be very good depending on what your standard is and how hard you are going to work for it. With it being a very large company there are many different ways that you can be promoted. Culture is good and have great people that work there at all levels.

Cons

Depending on the leadership in place it can be very micromanaging environment. For those who are more tenured this may not be an ideal environment for you. You are expected to grind grind and grind on acitivty (which is sales) and on top of that have meetings to fit it which makes work life balance tricky with 5am service meetings that are mandatory or 5pm back to the office calls on fridays. The route rides are pointless at most times and take people out of the field and their homes for insane hours. You can move within the organization but you have to have a Presidents club behind you in order to be considered "qualified" to be promoted which clearly kicks out people who may actually be great future leaders. This is especially demotivating for those who surpass that number but missed certain measures that technically disqualify them. Pay is good, good base salary but every year they are consistently changing the comp plans with majority of the time its to cut the comp down and make less. There is an atmosphere of "they dont want us to make too much money" that whispers around the sales teams when all the selling rules are changed. Comp plan roll outs need to be done and communicated better.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 23, 2026
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Pros

The Commission is great. You can make good money in this place.

Cons

While the pay is good, the culture here is not. It is incredibly restrictive. It is very much a “Do what I want you to do, how I want you to do it, and when I want you to do it” management style. They constantly remind you of how much money you can make there which gets annoying after a while. The service team and the sales team are constantly at odds. Not just Cintas, but the industry in general is very sleazy, much like a car dealership. They screw over their smaller customers with enormous year over year price increases. I know a particular salesperson who is having a lot of success their who has no problem lying to his customers, and never answering their calls when the problems come. As long as he keeps the deals coming Cintas does not care. Corporate greed is on full display at Cintas. The Management Development program for college graduates seems like a great opportunity. If you are a young college graduate and you get the opportunity, I would recommend that.

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