Decent Opportunity - Sales Consultant Paychex Employee Review

3.0
Jul 12, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Life Balance; ability to work from home; good earnings potential; ability to succeed and hit quota in just about any economy...up or down.

Cons

You get bogged down by corporate and management with the "flavor of the week." Every week there is a product or new presentation (with all the same old information, just spun differently) that they want you to focus on rehashing to your CPAs or current clients. You have to put your own plan in place and stick to it. You are stuck telling management what they want to hear and what they want to see within the CRM tool. Using the phones is much more effective and a better use of time than driving throughout your territory each day going on in person calls.

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5.0
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Pros

- Sales training - Team support - Goal oriented work

Cons

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1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing is good about working here.

Cons

Nobody is ever held accountable. Pay is awful. Benefits were all moved out of state, so all providers in the area are all out of network. Jobs are being moved to India. The list goes on. Sales is the absolute favorite department in the entire company. Nothing sales can do is ever wrong, even when they give false information to clients and then the support team has to deal with the fallback. Don't get me started on Payroll.... the entire department has gone to the wind. I honestly don't know how this company ever did good with payroll services. The #1 complaint i got from every single client I interacted with was they could never get ahold of their Payroll Specialist. The company's response to this was to start making other departments learn payroll duties. This year they moved insurance benefits to a plan out of Arkansas, which made every provider I was already seeing become out of network. I had my first major medical scare of my adulthood and ended up paying a few grand out of pocket because U of R was out of network. Promotions are non existent. They make you apply and interview for any role you want to move into. There is nothing good about working here, and i would advise anyone to stay away from them.

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