Just had job interview at Foxtons OMG!!!

funny how you applied to work for foxtons, but now you slag them off. i bet you didnt even get offered the job, more like they turned you down...and now your still on the dole...

I dont think 22k , company car, laptop, phone and expenses is a bad package... even if you do the initial six months! COME ON.... LETS BE REAL.... IT TAKES A TRUE SALESPERSON TO WORK FOR THEM AND ITS SALES PEOPLE WHO EARN 5 - 10 K PERMONTH... HARD CORE WORKING LIFE BUT IT REWARDS. NOW STOP SLAGGING FOXTONS OFF (JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT A MINI) AND GO DO SOME WORK YOURSELVES YOU BUNCH OF LAZY W**N%ER"

you are a retard. i worked at foxtons and it was sick! banter banter banter. you obviously can't handle interviews. drinking alcohol wasn't a test either - it was to see if you can banter it up. i was in notting hill and loved it. real good comaraderie. you're just gutted because you didn't get a job there......i would never work at any other estate agents because foxtons are the best (and yes I worked at hamptons international in kensington so i can compare and they were terrible). happy job hunting in this difficult economic climate.

I have just applied for the role as a New Business Receptionist. Has anyone got any information of this role and if its as bad as the sales roles advertised? i've just graduated and am taking a gap year so just want something to tie me over for a while to earn money. Or any information on the Property Management role?

 Thanks

Yes the credit crunch that threatens all businesses that are not doing well in the economic food chain, and one day I can see foxtons becoming bankrupt and the local councils acuiring those properties that did sell. Or another estate agent will aquire them legally. But anyway I wouldn't work for them if I knew £22K + Laptop + Company Car, I would rather work as a Bailif because they make considerably more than a estate agent working for foxtons and it's corrupt business practices. Even PCSO's (Police Comunity Support Officers) in London's Metropolitan police make £25K which is still more than foxtons.

Are you now banged up or why if it's so wonderful are you not there now, not difficult to work out who you are and if we are right you were fired for the worst sales figures on recond.

Clearly Foxtons employee's visit this site more than anyone else...what losers! 22k starting salary is fine, but let's face it the company has virtually zero progression. Foxtons job is to sell and clearly they sell their bullshit promises to the people they hire. AHAHAHAHAHAHA

You say you got called back for a second interview.  Bollocks... If you were you they would have offered you the job immediately.  I reckon you didn't get the job and you are pissed off as a result.  There is one way to find out.  Give me you surname and first initial and I will ring Fran the recruitment director and find out if you were offered a second interview - i am sure you wont! lol

BTW the beer is not a test.  I had 2 beers at my interview 5 years ago and stayed for 4 years - had a blast.  It is only people that fail the interviews, get sacked or cannot sell that slag the business off.  If you can sell and you can charm you can make a small fortune at a very young age.  If tenants and clients are complaining, then that is fair enough, but a decent salesman who leaves Foxtons wont be slagging them off as he/she will not be bitter.  Probably faitly well off with a couple of flats at the age of 25!

Idiots... 

Hahaha...you guys are so fooled by foxtons, thinking you're going to make it big and have loads of flats...even if a small percentage do, you probably lost all your friends doing it. That is the type of people foxtons grow...greedy people who lost their friends on their way to what they wanted, whereas most people in business make friends you guys probably lose them.

Also you guys just thing it's a monopoly game, but it's not this banter and glamourized attitude whilst dealing with peoples homes...their lively hoods that they spent years paying for....and then you think you agents can just make money on what people earnt...by making them give in to shit deals.

Foxtons have tarnished all estate agents, no one trusts people like you....you are about as dodgy as car salesmen, and if you think it's great your making so much money.....it just shows your ignorrant arrogance...I'm only 18 and I think you guys are scum of the earth.

great! you probably have a couple of flats at 25 with a 100% mortage on all of them you cheap bastards!! Typical foxtons agent....living for the now! hahahaha

I would just like to say that I worked for Foxtons for nearly 3 years, and yes it is a very challenging environment, but if you are prepared to work, then you will get rewarded both in career progression and financially. But it is those people that feel that they can just do the bare minimum and get by are those that are soon identified, so if you cannot do a hard days work then forget applying!

 I personally wouldn't work for them again, but what people need to realise is that whether you like it or not, Foxtons is an unrivalled business machine in the environment and the skills that you acquire both professionally and personally are most certainly transferrable in any other working environment and for that I am grateful.

 For the muppet who said he wouldn't get out of bed for 22k, a car, phone, and laptop, I think they are above their station! Either they like making comments on forums that they have no knowledge of or they feel that they can get what they want handed to them on a plate! I ask, would you get out of bed for 6K a months after Tax? Because with hard work, and ultimately some luck you can achieve that: if not you are more of a Knob that I thought, and good luck to you!

 Anyway, I think they are like marmite, you either like them or hate them, but to comment on the everyday workings in the company as an employee, with out actually working for them, those people need to get back in their box; because if you really want to work in the industry, you're not going to get a more recognised stepping stone than Foxtons...

 

 

I think the comment above is well thought out and very true. 

To the other people above that who argued against my comment posted on 27/08/09 at 11:29, that is fair enough - you have your opinions.

Like most companies, only the top 5% earn top money.  In fact I would suggest that only the top 10% at Foxtons earn over £40-50k per annum and only the top 30 earn £70-100k.  But it is attainable, I and many other people managed it.  You just have to work hard and be good at your job.  I think if you lined up the top agents at Foxtons next to all the other local agents you would be surprised just how much more knowledge they would have.  Bear in mind that without question Foxtons hold more stock on their books per office than any other agency in the UK (that is fact BTW), so therefore we would see more properties and therefore have to deal with more unusual sales and lets (repossesions, short leases, properties with subsidence, absentee landlords etc etc...).  I am sure if you walked into a local agent and asked them to explain the various ways of carrying out a lease extension and the costs involved, they would not have a clue - a number of Foxtons staff would and tell you everything you would need to know.

BTW I'm not 18 yrs old, I'm 23 and I have 3 flats not 2!  As for them being on 100% mortgages. Even stupid people know that for the last year or two 100% mortgages have not been available to end users or BTL investors...

Oh and the guy/girl who commented about Fran didnt give me a surname!  Funny that...lol

BTW if any of you guys are looking for jobs my business is recruiting at the moment and we will need 5-10 sat by Xmas for a range of roles. 

And to the arrogant prick that said he would not get out of bed for £22k - I bet you would if you had a mortgage to pay, a kid to feed or car food to put on the table - rather than just bein able to lie in at your Mum and Daddy's house punchin your nuts before watching Jeremy Kyle in the morning.  If I lost everything tomorrow, I would clean the streets or the toilets just to ear a living and keep my pride. 

 

 

I love the fact that the 'wehatefoxtons.com' website attracts so many loyal foxtons workers who seem so uptight, angry, immature and personality-less but at the same time really defensive about Foxtons.... is this not the sadest thing ever?!

You work 8-8 6 days a week...for £22 grand.... ARE YOU JOKING? You have to be the biggest moron ever to do this... even if you do earn 6k a month (which the majority of Foxtons monkeys do not) that only equates to £25 an hour.... and you have ONE DAY off a week to spend it, good one.

And as for pride... When you sign up to Foxtons you agree to lose all pride, personality if there ever was any, friends and fun. You only have one day a week free, so it doesn't really matter.

I have just had a massive payout from my legal battle from Foxtons and will be investing it into my 12th property...

What was that a Foxtons worker bragging about 3 flats... you work for an estate agent for three years and only own three flats... you've made it, really.

Foxtons will eventually fizzle out into loserville....bring it on!

Hey there,

 

I used to work at foxtons a while back, i was sold into working from them, having come in as a Sales Manager from and events/Business Information background and took a huge paycut to join them.

 The Director that interviewed was a South African like me and sold me into working for them and had no idea what the workload entailed. I understood that i would be bring on properties in the lettings and Sales Markets, and that was it. But basically it's just a numbers game which requires no sales skills over the phone, it is just a consulting role with a lot of luck involved and also the ability to build a very succesful pipeline of property developers which takes a good year or two, of which you would only get those leads once a colleague has moved on and surrendered his leads. The job is flawed in this way, there is no responsibilty and there is no motivation, the team leaders and the music just irritated me. being treated like a slave to push to achieve results did not work as i was not built to work in such an antagonising environment.

 So this is my message to Jean Jameson, the director who hired me, i am sorry that i was not able to be that person who could succeed in this environment, i had let you down on my abilities. I am now a very succesful Sponsorship Director working for a reputable Events Company, all i can say is that it was unfortunate that i had not clicked. But it was all for the best i assume, there are a lot of d**cks at Foxtons but there are a lot of good guys just like you and me.

All im trying to say is dont judge the people who work there too harshly, its just the machine thats at fault.

 All the best

Abs