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    Vivint Smart Home Reviews

    Updated 14 January, 2019
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    Vivint Smart Home CEO Todd Pedersen
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    Pros

    • "Free lunch, I love the company always have a great time at work" (in 128 reviews)

    • "In my experience Vivint offers the freedom to live a true work life balance" (in 29 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Mediocre health insurance benefits; main product is sold door-to-door" (in 50 reviews)

    • "not good at doing work/life balance" (in 23 reviews)

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    1. "Vivint provides amazing summer and full time jobs that pay well and teach priceless life skills."

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Sales Representative in Kamloops, BC
      Current Employee - Sales Representative in Kamloops, BC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Vivint Smart Home full-time (Less than a year)

      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

    2. "Great company to work for but not for everyone"

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      Current Employee - Sales Manager in Kamloops, BC
      Current Employee - Sales Manager in Kamloops, BC
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Vivint Smart Home full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

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

      Cons

      Away from home a lot
      Tough job mentally

      Vivint Smart Home Response

      20 Aug, 2018 – Recruiter

      Great to hear that you are happy at Vivint. Thank you for taking the time to post.

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    3. "Sales"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Vivint Smart Home full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Great atmosphere, great money if you can sell

      Cons

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

    4. "Skills training but tough environment"

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      Former Employee - Sales Representative in Surrey, BC
      Former Employee - Sales Representative in Surrey, BC
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Vivint Smart Home full-time (Less than a year)

      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

    5. "Working at Vivint"

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      Current Employee - SmartHome Professional in Calgary, AB
      Current Employee - SmartHome Professional in Calgary, AB
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Vivint Smart Home full-time (More than 3 years)

      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 changes and upgrades. The panels software changes weekly which puts older software out of date forcing the pro to update all panels.

      Vivint is moving a million miles per hour in all directions and it doesn't understand the full impact it has on the pro's in the field. They have introduced metrics that measure a pro's performance including monitoring the time it takes to perform an install. This leads to working 8 hours per day with no lunch and no breaks.

      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.

    6. "Great opportunity but not for everyone"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Vivint Smart Home full-time

      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.

    7. "Huge opportunity, but high risk and hard work."

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      Former Employee - Sales Representative in Saskatoon, SK
      Former Employee - Sales Representative in Saskatoon, SK
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Vivint Smart Home full-time (Less than a year)

      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

    8. "Install Technician"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Calgary, AB
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Calgary, AB
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Vivint Smart Home (Less than a year)

      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 staying at the dorms in a university. They recruited us to come work for them and then turned around and did that. Apparently they were overstaffed because sales wasn't picking up so they gave us the boot.
      Lost so much money coming to work for them. Really screwed me over

      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

    9. "Operations Manager"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      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.

    10. "As a Field Service Technician"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Negative Outlook

      I worked at Vivint Smart Home full-time

      Pros

      - provide phone, iPad, company truck

      Cons

      - little control over overtime