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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 1905228"]I quit Sage about 1 years ago. Good company to work for (for the most part). The company culture almost mimicks that of a fraternity. You have to pay your dues until you are excepted by the comapny. You are selling ass wipes and oral care, but they have found a pretty innovative way of finding a clinical use for a commodity. The marketing team is second to none and customer service is fantastic as well (something that can easily be taken for granted). Overall sales support is great. Believe it or not, there sales force is actually highly competent. When I made the move to the OR, I was expecting at first to be a little out classed by my new co-workers pedigree; it wasn't case. There are just as many morons working in the OR as there are at Sage (meaning not that many). Sure there are some shitty sales people at Sage, but for the most part everyone is very talented and cool. Thats the good.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bad is, the money is average to below average (80-110), top reps (115-135) Very top makes about 160-170. In this industry that is on the low end. If you do not have medical experience, it might be a step up. If you do have medical experience, it would be a stupid move. It doesn't get you any OR experience, which is important in this business (which is a little rediculous, the OR is not a difficult place to figure out). You are dealing with nurses all day, which means you are allmost never dealing with anyone that can actually get something done (alone), everyone has to be on board (ie....all of nursing, WOCN's, Infections control and Purchasing/Materials Managment), not like calling on a surgeon. And worst of all, you have to inservice nurses non-stop. Very little of your time is spent actually selling, it's all about inservicing the nurses to get them to use your product. Their oral care product is a fabulous product, but the biggest bitch ever to implement in a hospital. And remember, inservicing nurses on the ICU means you have to be there at either 5am or 10pm (royal pain in the ass). Their CHG wipe is a total wash-up of a product and the Prevalon boot is way too expensive. There is no clinical data to support the use of the comfort bath, its all in theoretical. Sure its a nice product and most hospital would use it if it was free, but it is also expensive and immpossible to cost justify. Anyone that tells you differently is lying. The comfort shield (ass wipe) is actually a very good product, but who the hell want to talk about incontinence all day long??? </p><p><br /></p><p>If you do not have med sales experience I would consider it. If you do, you'd be stupid to take this job. If you have a good B2B background and you interview well, I would try to get in with a company like ethicon or stryker.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 1905228"]I quit Sage about 1 years ago. Good company to work for (for the most part). The company culture almost mimicks that of a fraternity. You have to pay your dues until you are excepted by the comapny. You are selling ass wipes and oral care, but they have found a pretty innovative way of finding a clinical use for a commodity. The marketing team is second to none and customer service is fantastic as well (something that can easily be taken for granted). Overall sales support is great. Believe it or not, there sales force is actually highly competent. When I made the move to the OR, I was expecting at first to be a little out classed by my new co-workers pedigree; it wasn't case. There are just as many morons working in the OR as there are at Sage (meaning not that many). Sure there are some shitty sales people at Sage, but for the most part everyone is very talented and cool. Thats the good. The bad is, the money is average to below average (80-110), top reps (115-135) Very top makes about 160-170. In this industry that is on the low end. If you do not have medical experience, it might be a step up. If you do have medical experience, it would be a stupid move. It doesn't get you any OR experience, which is important in this business (which is a little rediculous, the OR is not a difficult place to figure out). You are dealing with nurses all day, which means you are allmost never dealing with anyone that can actually get something done (alone), everyone has to be on board (ie....all of nursing, WOCN's, Infections control and Purchasing/Materials Managment), not like calling on a surgeon. And worst of all, you have to inservice nurses non-stop. Very little of your time is spent actually selling, it's all about inservicing the nurses to get them to use your product. Their oral care product is a fabulous product, but the biggest bitch ever to implement in a hospital. And remember, inservicing nurses on the ICU means you have to be there at either 5am or 10pm (royal pain in the ass). Their CHG wipe is a total wash-up of a product and the Prevalon boot is way too expensive. There is no clinical data to support the use of the comfort bath, its all in theoretical. Sure its a nice product and most hospital would use it if it was free, but it is also expensive and immpossible to cost justify. Anyone that tells you differently is lying. The comfort shield (ass wipe) is actually a very good product, but who the hell want to talk about incontinence all day long??? If you do not have med sales experience I would consider it. If you do, you'd be stupid to take this job. If you have a good B2B background and you interview well, I would try to get in with a company like ethicon or stryker.[/QUOTE]
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