Micromanaging. Expect to go to happy hours after 6PM with clients that might not give you business but will drink and eat while you pay with your credit card. Expect coffee meetings before 6AM, but still needing to be in the office for pointless meetings by 8AM.
In my first week, I asked why there are so many open AM positions in the office, I was told "growth" but after talking to some shop with some senior AMs it ended up being that three account managers quit before I got there, two with new positions in bigger companies.
Before I passed my sales exam, a girl left to work at another recruiting firm paying more, the guy in my training class failed his sales exam but got recruited to tech sales making more so didn't even retake it, and a guy in the training class after mine got recruited into med sales making more. See the trend?
They'll get you with the promise of making serious money once you're a 10K or 15K AM. But that can take a year or two or three depending on your accounts and the market you sell in.
Markets can only support so many high earning AM's when the competition has been saturating an area for years with Account Managers and Recruiters that have a base of 45-55K a year down the street.
