Pull back the curtain, and you'll know the wizard for what he is... - Director Development Trainee IMI Denver Employee Review

2.0
29 Dec 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you have zero experience/qualifications/personal life responsibilities/desires, this could be a good place for you to learn and grow, with admittedly enticing salary possibilities if you stick things through. But don't be sucked in by that last bit if any of the former bits don't describe you. To advance, you'll also have to be comfortable losing a sense of personal identity and putting your own interests above literally everyone else you know, except of course your boss's.

Cons

The more time you spend, the more you realize that the interview and hiring processes were run by marketers marketing their very unglamorous and slightly shifty business to you. Training is a nightmare of memorization and regurgitation in which "verbatim" is the king concept- never mind you actually attempt to understand something, because the less you understand and think for yourself the better droid you are in the field. Uncompensated morning meetings are a daily ego trip for the CEO polishing his TED talks in which the entire organization is required to stand at attention taking notes. Team nights on Fridays, while ostensibly, "optional," and, "fun," also feature the CEO on a soapbox and regularly come with homework. They don't say it in the interviews, but to succeed in the organization you are expected to arrive early and stay late from Day 1 (and I'm talking hours, not minutes). Everything anyone that has stuck around with the company long enough to drink the Kool-Aid (and start benefitting financially from the work of others) is a manipulation. They pretend to value staff development, but don't be fooled. The more people you sell and upsell to, the more money everyone above you makes (for instance, directors make a third of what every trainee and brand ambassador makes for every trainee or brand ambassador there is in the field every day, without lifting a finger). And on the charity side of things, I haven't had access to the exact numbers, but given the compensation schedule I was provided, IMI must be pocketing about 45% of every dollar they raise- not to say charities shouldn't have overhead, but 45% seems too high to only cover one aspect of their development costs. If you do decide to work here on the sales (it's sales, not marketing, despite what they insist) side, the math on the commission schedule does not work out for you while you're in training. Take the $100/day salary until you're a week or two in and taking multiple "bells" out for yourself that you're consistently moving. Otherwise, on your best day you can only make $96. But no one in the organization will help you do that math, if they even bothered to understand it for themselves.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Potential for high earnings. Employee bonding nights. You can take away good sales tactics.

Cons

This company has been in the Denver area for at least 3 years. They have changed their name since I've worked for them, and I cannot find any information on the company under the name they carried when I was employed there. But the director of operations, Brandon, is the same "CEO" from the company I worked with. They offer jobs to basically anyone, and play it up as an "entry level marketing position", using lots of buzzwords, telling you about all their big clients. They try hard to sell the job to you. They are very vague about what you will actually be doing with the company until you are hired. It is a pyramid scam, and earnings are based almost completely on commission. They place you outside of King Sooper's gas stations to sell mediocre car washing products, or windshield chip repairs. The product they sell may have changed, but it is the same system. You meet at the office early, usually 7am dressed in business professional, do sales training (role playing), then everyone changes into casual clothes, loads up their cars with product, and heads out to the assigned gas station or store for the day. You work sometimes until 8pm before returning to the office with leftover product. While you make all the sales, the director or CEO or whatever new title he has chosen, makes most of the commission from your sales. Another review mentions them changing names and offices, and I would be interested to know what other names they have used. No benefits.

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