Strong benefits but unrealistic metrics and fear-based culture - Evaluación del empleado para Cruise Consultant en Viking Cruises

2.0
30 may 2026
Recomendada
Aprobación del CEO
Perspectiva de la empresa

Ventajas

Incredible insurance packages- multiple carriers- very affordable. Yearly free cruise (FAM) with plus one and expenses paid. Commissionable months average of 3-5k, once or twice 8k during best months. 5+ years in and it will be a great sales career.

Desventajas

Commissions; metrics These are hidden from new hires all through out training despite being asked for multiple times. Targets/KPIs are unrealistic versus industry norms. Commissions are denied if monthly conversion average is below 50%; expected conversion after 6 months is 75% or higher. The company bases their average off their most tenured reps who have 100% or more conversion every month because they have amassed huge client pools and very rarely get on the phones to ding that conversion. It's like judging a rookie chef on orders per hour against a head chef who only ever cooks a handful of signature dishes from a prepped pantry — then firing the rookie for not matching that steady, sheltered pace. Max commission 0.7%; typical first-year commission 0.1–0.2%. Low commission despite the average monthly revenue that you make the company ≈ $1.5M/month. All non-actionable calls (e.g., “remove me from mailing list,” “asking for X who booked my cruise last week”, "I want to make changes to my booking.", "I'm a travel agent") All of these count against sales reps numbers, driving conversion below thresholds; a couple such calls can cost commission and jeopardize your job every month. Some days reps receive multiple non-actionable calls and zero bookings.Happens atleast 2-3 days a month for me. Fear-based culture: reps avoid inbound calls to protect income by spamming their warm leads. Metrics should be reduced or inbound call rules changed/inbound options changed to allow call flow to become more accurate. PTO often denied without clear SOPs; system can cancel 2 of 5 requested days with no guidelines. Always put in 3-4 weeks in advanced. Was denied 3 days to take spouse to emergency surgery and recovery. Denied 2 days for child's graduation from highschool. SOPs are effectively nonexistent compared with large call centers (e.g., Safelite), causing operational breakdowns, unclear expectations for managers/reps on LOA/PTO/training, and legal/liability exposure.

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5.0
26 ago 2025
Recomendada
Aprobación del CEO
Perspectiva de la empresa

Ventajas

great benefits, excellent pay, good support.

Desventajas

The pay structure can be pretty cut throat when not performing but very lucrative when you have good conversion.

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1.0
15 may 2026
Recomendada
Aprobación del CEO
Perspectiva de la empresa

Ventajas

Co-workers are incredibly nice; insurance is very affordable.

Desventajas

Micromanagement at its best. If you go to the bathroom, you better be back on the phones within @ 3 minutes, otherwise you'll be called out. I wondered why coworkers who had been there for a few years hadn't taken their FAM trip yet? It's because it's almost impossible to get consecutive days off, and your job performance is constantly called great / sub standard / great / sub standard. It keeps you from being able to take your FAM trip. They made it sounds like a free cruise a year was a given ... nope, not at all. It's not a benefit ... it's a carrot behind the stick. Stay away unless you love being micromanaged and lied to. It wasn't until a few days before we graduated from training that we learned what the comp plan was. Even then, we all had 1-on-1 meetings with manager so they could explain it to us.

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