Good and Bad - Outside Sales Consultant Paycom Employee Review

3.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

-outstanding learning structure -incredible opportunity for substantial income. -great focus on personal and professional development. -growing leadership structure. -positive and motivating c-level executives. -incredible growth rate with opportunity for career advancement.

Cons

-a high magnitude of redundant busy work. -micromanagement -sales cult of clones: one way to sell, and no other. Be prepared to drink the Koolaid. -training is tailored to mold the entry level rather than the experienced rep. -poor work-life balance. Average hours of 60+ per week with work being brought home and time taken away from personal and family life. -rewarding in the economical sense, but not a rewarding career otherwise. -young leadership with much to learn and unrealistic expectations. -numerous competitors in the industry.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Training, pay, and benefits are really good

Cons

9 hour day is brutal

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Paycom Response
2d
Strong development, competitive compensation and meaningful benefits are part of how we invest in our team, and it's great to see that reflected in your experience. Thank you for sharing!
2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Base salary - PTO - Awesome colleagues - $1 Medical PPO offering

Cons

- Upper leadership seem to not value the operations department as much as they do with sales. They are not consistent as well, which causes them to change the entire department's job description, expectations, & commission structure every few months. Change is good but huge change every 3-4 months is so exhausting. - They overload you with too many clients to handle while increasing the number of internal calls. When asking for support from sales or middle management, its typically a hard negotiation or non-existent. Expect to work way over 40 hours/week and juggle 10-20+ clients at a time. - Sales will oversell on product & implementation expectation which makes the job 1000% harder. Turnover with sales is extremely high so don't expect for even the best reps stay as they either leave, get fired because quota was not met, or the new manager will cut them if they're "not the vibe". You get left with the newbies who does not know how to sell or support you when you need them. - Every role in this company has high turnover in general. Making it very hard to cross collaborate with other departments as everyone is either extremely swamped or new to the role and cannot support as well, - Being forced to go to Oklahoma for training every year, sometimes twice a year.

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