Pros
Wells is a great company. I have been challenged and been able to grow and improve greatly in my personal sales during the past 3.5 years I've worked here. I've gained fantastic training and management experiences I wouldn't trade for anything. I've been rewarded with good monthly commission. This is a job that you have to earn. It's sales and I think some of the credit managers forget that sometimes. A lot of new hires feel entitled when they haven't yet proven themselves. They don't last long. No job that doesn't make you work for it is worth doing. This is not a company for babies. This is a company and a job where when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Cons
Sometimes managers don't do as well as they should in managing expectations. Some credit managers come on thinking that earning VCP (commissions) will be a snap. No, you have to work for it. I don't have a problem with that fact, just that some new hires feel a little lead on. I tell people that if you've never done cold call telemarketing before that this job will feel like it. I have done cold-call telemarketing before and to me this job feels nothing like it. However if you treat this job as though you are a cold-call telemarketer you can do very well. The moving package is okay although not as good as it used to be. I don't like that our pension plans disappeared last year...not sure how that's going to figure into my eventual retirement plans. For 2009 there were several very heavily weighted portions of all us managers' reviews that had to do with company performance and not individual or branch performance. These measures actually made it mathmatically impossible to reach the highest rating, even if one scored perfectly in every single area that they could affect directly. That would definately be a disconnect between upper management and sales managers. It was quite a demotivator.