Vivint Smart Home Reviews

Pros

-PHD in sales in one summer -$22,000 avg. 1st year summer income (May-Aug) -Overcame fear of rejection -Learn many life skills like: confidence, self worth, problem solving skills that you can use in life

Cons

-Must work hard and study to get the most out of it -Usually have to move to a new city for the summer

Pros

Great company, very hard work. Builds character and taught me to sell. Great sales training, great money if you sell.

Cons

Door to door sales. Tough work lots of rejection but great learning experience. Lack of work life balance.

Pros

Great management Money is amazing Lots of room for growth Treat employees well

Cons

Away from home a lot Tough job mentally

Pros

Great atmosphere, great money if you can sell

Cons

Got bad area some times, some of the workmates were immature

Pros

It was a cool place to meet people and a fun working environment. Can help break you out of your shell if you’re not very outgoing

Cons

Really hard to sell for 85% of people and long hours

Advice to Management

Better compensation more off days

Pros

In the beginning, working with Vivint was great. They provided full training including a 2 week course in Florida which is a nice break from Canada. I was given all new equipment including tablet, phone, tools and truck. They have always been flexible with my shift and have allowed me to visit doctors when I needed to. My immediate managers were friendly and helpful.

Cons

CHANGE. If you don't like change, don't work here. Everything changes on nearly a daily basis. When I started, I had maybe 30 or 40 pieces of inventory to track and now I have 100's. My job description went from installing security to: installing home automation, installing cameras, running CAT5 cables through the walls of homes, finding leads and so on and so forth. The software that a pro uses is under constant...

Advice to Management

Get rid of any and all metrics that include timing a pro on their performance. This leads to high levels of stress both mentally and physically on a pro. In my 3 years, I can almost guarantee that those who are responsible for making up the ridiculous metrics have never spent a day in the field, nor have a clue what the job entails. Huge dis-coordination there.

Pros

Great opportunity for those looking getting into sales. Huge learning opportunity. Great door to door rep.

Cons

Tough if you get discouraged easily and not for everyone.

Pros

- run like a sports team - tons of motivation, training, support - great pay when you succeed: between $350 - 450 per sale - confident, motivated people to work with

Cons

- 100% commission based: if you don't do well, you won't get paid - fair amount of pressure to work hard - expectation to knock doors from 2pm - 9pm every day except Sunday

Advice to Management

Move the day off from Sunday to Monday, and have reps start hitting doors at 3pm or later instead of 2pm. Prime time isn't till 5, I hated knocking before then

Pros

It seemed like the info checked out at the beginning after I did some research, but it ended up being one of the worst decisions I have made career wise. The manager named Travis Prete was nice and available to come help on a tricky install, as there was virtually no training except a few job shadows that you don't really get paid for.

Cons

I packed up my life, gave up my apartment for a promising summer job before school in the fall and they promise that you can make vast amounts of money and avoid student debt but later when my manager called my fiancé and I in early to a meeting to do "inventory" with him, he then said "I'm letting you guys go." just like that. one day we had a job and the next we are unemployed and practically homeless because we were...

Advice to Management

Compensate your employees better if you are going to let them go with no warning after they take such a big risk and life uproar. I lost so much money coming to work for them

Pros

Great management, wages and experience! My managers were always eager to help and assist in anyway I needed. Really good group.

Cons

Long hours are for sure a con, but if you're used to working hard it shouldn't be a problem.

Advice to Management

More incentives for employees and more compensation for mileage and wear and tear on using our own cars.