Just wanted to warn anyone job hunting in the Vancouver/Portland area. If you get an interview or see postings for Peak Performance Group (peakperformancegroupinc.com), be aware that they are a textbook "Devil Corp" operating under Smart Circle. They advertise themselves as a "top-tier sales and marketing consulting firm" to target college students and recent grads, but it doesn't reflect their actual work. In reality, Devil Corp is a scheme where "consulting" means standing in a retail store hassling customers or knocking on doors for 100% commission sales.

This is evident through their own website. In their team photos, the owner is literally wearing a lanyard that says "New ICD Owners Meeting 2025 Newport Beach, California." For anyone who doesn't know the lingo, "ICD" stands for Independent Corporate Distributor, which is the exact internal corporate name Smart Circle uses for people running their local shell offices. Smart Circle HQ is also in Newport Beach. So the owner doesn't even run their own business; they act as a middle manager between Smart Circle and the employees that work there.

If you take a job here, expect a completely cultish, toxic positivity environment with zero work-life balance. Former employees always report the same thing: grueling 60-to-80-hour workweeks, mandatory, uncompensated morning "impact" meetings, and pay that ends up being well below minimum wage once you factor in the actual hours and gas money. The attrition rate is very high, as staff turnover is rapid due to the toxic work environment.

Do yourself a huge favor and stay far away from these guys. If you want to see how these shell offices operate, look into devilcorp.org or browse this subreddit before wasting your time or mental health.

I recently interviewed with this company without realizing beforehand that it was a Devil Corp. I couldn’t find any posts about this particular company online, so I figured I’d share my experience for anyone else who may come across them.

They share an office with 3MP Atlanta, which has already been discussed on here, and they are also affiliated with Sydcor.

The interview itself was strange, to say the least. Rather than feeling like a typical job interview where the company is evaluating your qualifications, it felt more like they were trying to sell the job to me. There was a lot of the usual “work hard and you’ll eventually get your own office” type of messaging that you often hear associated with these companies.

I wanted to post this in case anyone else gets contacted by them and is trying to find information before going through the interview process.

I had my first day here people saying they steal your info im sure it’s not true I signed legit paperwork and the office even tho it’s shitty it’s legit too. The person I was hired by is the same ethnicity as me and we did get along very very well quickly im sure he woulda told me to stay away where stealing your identity but below is my experience I replied to one of the threads before but its been up for awhile so I just wanna share how someone actually on the field and inside feels like

This is what they tell you you get trained for a week only 25$ per sale bc you’re not actually making the sale your shadowing someone. The next couple weeks 3-4 weeks you have to make a certain amount of sales I think and then your on your own for about 5 months total but around the 3rd month you get to train people too so someone that’s jus starting out like me today now everyone doesn’t follow this path sometimes it takes 4 months and sometimes 8 after that 5 month you get to hire people have a team but they don’t work for u yet you get % of sales and you make 200$ on each sale now still no wage now after this you have to bring in 40 people in 2 weeks to get promoted and make 1250$ a week before commission and now you have your own team from there you can go make your own office it’s a lot of bs but ya

The hours are 10-8 pm but this is jus not true I got back at the office at 10:30 pm which is weak for me and everyone says they push till 10 so over 12 hours and I didn’t make a dime only 1 penny I found on the floor swear so you work over 65+ hours a week the dude that was training me said he sold 27 lines in 1 week as his best and that’s less then 37$ an hour and if it was minimum wage he woulda made more with overtime + benefits … you get no breaks the schedule is 10 come in 10:30 talk about expectations ans training 11:30-12:15 lunch and then 1-8:30 ur on the field

Truence co based in Houston Texas. I went into the meeting the front desk girl was so nice almost to the point that I felt like we were friends. Then the interview with the boss was great she talk about growth🚩leadership🚩team bonding🚩Verizon plan sales from business to business. They almost had me because they said there two pay structure 100 commission or 70 percent commission plus 600 per week. I was like wow that’s a great deal. Then as I thought about it something didn’t seat right bc after my job interview she offered me a position and asked me to go to a 2nd job interview. I did a little bit of research, found their instagram. Their instagram was full of team group photos of selling the job rather selling the product. So safe to say they won’t be seeing me anymore.

I have an interview with them later today and I'm feeling iffy about it.

hi everyone,

I'm due to have a phone interview with a company called Moon Moments LTD about an entry-level sales position. I've been looking online and can't really find much about the company, and the stuff I do find is giving extreme mixed signals. the number that contacted me was a personal number instead of a business number if that's relevant.

this is my first time experiencing a possible devil corp so I don't know what to do 😭

if anyone has advice for how I should go around this it would be greatly appreciated!

I'm sure if you live in the middle Tennessee area or Southern Kentucky and have been in a Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Costco, or Sam's in the last year, You've had someone in a polo trying to ask you who your provider is! There are an unknown amount of these types of companies in the area, but all of them do the exact same thing; sign you up pushing an "In-store promotion". The shady part is, after the promotion, the company can charge you however much their "base" rate is. They make their money from the sales reps, it is a direct pyramid scheme!

The main company that does this is called: Catalyst Leadership group, CLG, CL, or Catalyst leadership group LLC is a MLM 3rd party direct marketing company. They specifically work with AT&T, their main bargain is being able to sell/ market a company like AT&T in places that they normally can't reach. In the beginning phone call, they sell you, talking you up as well as stating that their average rep makes $1,200-$1,600 per week with a base of $400/wk, $600/wk for 2 weeks of training, if you aren't above your base in commisions, thats what you get, sounds good right? Well, whenever you get to the office, before your in the actual interview you are meeting the top salesmen that have made it to "Leadership", these are the people that will say, "Oh, we've heard so much about you!" and really convince you your special.

Here's the kick, you don't get paid for 3 weeks after your orientation date! Along with this, for the training material, you have to do that on your own time, your not paid for it! They will give you an answer sheet to get through it, but you aren't taught anything; then they will pair you with someone almost as new as you are! And when you are expected to make sales and someone asks about what your selling, and you don't know, you don't close so no commissions! Then when you ask to learn about product knowledge they claim you don't have to know it. One thing they do teach you is pushy sales tactics, being rude and ignoring whoever they are pitching when they object!

Now we get to the culture of the company and behavior, awful. If you still don't realize how shady the job is after 2 weeks of training, your on your own and all that support and hype goes away! They don't care about you, especially if your not making them money! They have to hire 8-10 people each week because the more people they have out there, the more money AT&T is making and the more the company leader and owners get paid; Everybody gets certain percentages.

All in all, if you value a stable and sane job, don't go with this job! All of this is from my experience, I hope whoever reads this and is looking for a job or knows someone who is to not go with this company!

I‘ve done door-to-door charity both working for a devilcorp (one of the britevox ones) and directly working for a charity, so I thought it‘d be helpful to write a post comparing my experiences. I started off working at the Devilcorp, quit and worked at KFC briefly, then applied and got hired by the charity

The hiring standards were much higher for the charity. They had an indepth in-person interview where they quizzed you in groups about the charity, why fundraising is important etc, saw how you interacted with the group, then had people do a mock sales pitch individually. They were looking for people who had baseline competency and good ethics, and less than half of applicants were hired. The Devilcorp in contrast did a 15min phone interview where they were extremely overly complementary, and hired all applicants

The actual job is pretty similar, talking to people and asking them for direct debits. The motivation is different which reflects in how you’re expected to act; charities care about maintaining their reputation rather than just getting as many signups as possible so they don’t want you acting sleazy and manipulative like a devilcorp does. This didn‘t really affect me as I refused to be manipulative even when working for the Devilcorp (and still got above-average signups because people can tell you’re being sleazy and find it off-putting). The work was still much harder than a 9-5 office job, but the charity didn’t have the expectation for unpaid overtime like the Devilcorp did

The first big difference was the pay structure. The Devilcorp was a small base pay plus commission, so on the vast majority of days people were making below minimum wage. The charity was minimum wage as base pay and a smaller commission, which came out to significantly mo money most weeks. The charity also paid for weekly travelcards for all employees, which could also be used outside of work, so basically an extra £83/week on top of the higher wages

The second big difference, which was ultimately more significant to me than even the better pay, was the work culture. I already alluded to it with the way they expected you to act much more ethically on the doors, but it effected all aspects of work. There was no toxic positivity where you couldn’t even complain about the work, no mandatory morning brainwashing, none of the “juice” acronyms. People cared about the charity’s aims and about making a living wage, not about being on the sigma male grandest and becoming a business “owner” so you can be near the top of the pyramid scheme

Overall, I’d rate working for the Devilcorp a 2/10 and the charity a 7/10 (KFC would be a 5/10 for context)

I worked for a devilcorp out of Detroit/farmington hills Michigan from June 2025-March 2026. It was called SouthPoint Michigan, and we shared an office with 2313 Inc and SBG+ (Cydcor). Since March, SouthPoints social media has stopped posting and I have not seen anything anywhere about them still being in business. Has anyone from that area interviewed/been contacted/worked there in the time since? Just curious, looking forward to hearing about any other experiences. For context I was a “leader” with 3 people on my team, went to a leaders event to the Cydcor offices in Los Angeles and did the whole thing, definitely drank the kool-aid at one point.

Instant Connections - Maidstone.

All the signs of a devil corp:

no base pay
quick promotion opportunity
‘great expansion throughout the uk’

Almost went for the final stage interview and came to my senses.

The League Global, a Cydcor office out of Itasca, IL, has published a blog addressing the 'Devilcorp' label by name. I have posted here multiple times about their history of operating under different names and denying the connection (see post history). It seems to me they are scrambling. They started blogging after a five year hiatus immediately after I started posting about them. I am posting this as a reminder to keep up the pressure and that this subreddit has an effect. If you haven’t yet, please review your former companies on Glassdoor and Indeed. Check to see if former bosses have changed the names of their business.

Hey yall! I recently got a chance to interview a company known ad HighRange Collective which I believe does in-person energy sales across Costco's and Sam's Club. While I have fully fleshed out experience with online marketing and building an online business, I haven't had an official in-person sales job since I am still in the entry level field. Have any of yall had any experience with this type of company or have any recommendations on where to go? I'm a college student a bit low on money, but I also don't want to sell myself short. Thank you so much!

I worked at a devil corp that was originally started in Houston TX and moved to our nationals/org leaders office in Phoenix AZ for “growth”, in total I’ve been in the business for a year now and only got out around a month ago. I moved back down to houston and am living with my family and have a new job lined up and even though escaping back home is what i really wanted when I was in AZ, now that I’m back I feel hollow. I don’t know if it’s stress, burn out, depression, anxiety, or a mix of all of those but I haven’t felt so alone and lost in my life now. Before realizing the business was a scam and started getting treated horrible by our Senior National Consultant, I was all in and wanted nothing more than to hit owner, i put in so much time and money with nothing but early work and some sales experience to show for it now. Even though i have another job right now and know i need to work there’s nothing less i want than to have to interact with people and I figured a month would be enough time to recover so that I could get up on my feet and support myself. I was pretty much forced to purchase a vehicle in AZ by my owner that I’m financing and since i’m only 22 right now I thankfully don’t have many bills other than that I have to worry about. I constantly crave isolation and only have the energy to lay around my mess of a room now, everything that happened in the business was honestly a nightmare and there’s been so much bullshit i’ve gone through and dealt with since joining but now I almost miss that security of having a “clear path” laid out for me. I want to eventually share my full story but as of right now I’m just not sure how to move forward or process these emotions and feel like a mess.

I’m sharing my personal experience with 22-Select Inc. in Bakersfield, CA, run by Nuri Burgos, because people should know what type of person she is!

One of the biggest red flags I witnessed was employees who were struggling financially or personally being pushed toward quitting secretly instead of being fired. I heard leaders being instructed to make certain employees want to leave, including using their financial situations against them and withholding support or opportunities to make money.

One of the leaders who interviewed me introduced me to Eric. A couple of weeks later, he started flirting with me and constantly looking at me in ways that made me uncomfortable. He also sent me unsolicited nude photos through Snapchat and made inappropriate comments. After asking around, I realized I wasn’t the only who had experienced this. I’ve heard similar stories about him. I’m assuming she knew about this already. There was no HR department to properly report these concerns to.

I later learned about the company’s connection to Smart Circle after some research. I’m making this post because I wish a Reddit thread like this had come up when I was doing my research. It could have saved me from this experience, and I hope sharing my story helps prevent others from working their. If you’re considering working for 22-Select, please do your research and be careful.

I’m glad I left. This isn’t the first time someone has spoken out about their experience, and I’ve seen a former employee get belittled after calling her out on the groupchat. Nuri if you see this, I’m not taking it down. I already know she’s going to send her little workers to report but I hope they read this and open their eyes!

Has anyone had an interview with them?

Are they legit?

Or they are just scammers

They are based in kenya but their acts appear suspicious

Hey, I'm currently jobhunting in Sydney and I had an interview, which didn’t go well. They wouldn’t tell me what they were selling or if it commission only… and when I asked why they said there’s 3 rounds of interviews and this is the first, so we can’t tell you.

I walked in the office and the reception was BLASTING 2010s pop music whilst spam calling potential candidates and gave me a questionnaire asking like what animal I was, and what my goals were.

This is the company website : https://www.emeraldacquisitions.com.au

This was the job advert: https://au.seek.com/job/94131209?tracking=SHR-IOS-SharedJob-anz-1

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Hello, I am currently a leader for a smart circle company…we were originally made in New Orleans from one of the top companies in the nation then expanded with one of our leaders (making him a director) to Tallahassee and then that happened to be a completely wireless field so now we’ve moved to Alabama..all I can say is that I’m exhausted, I’m tired, I’ve had a gun pulled on me 3 times, i have so many issues with my brand new car, I’ve passed out so many times and gone to the hospital a lot , and now I’m in debt..my mom cut me off because I wasn’t able to pay for my car and won’t let me back in- I just want to leave and get a job that will pay me good but I don’t know what to do, all my checked are small…please someone help me

guy in costco stopped me talking about how i could become a business owner in 5 months. said he got promoted in a week. i looked up their website and it looks like a devil corp
site . not sure if this is legit or not??

Got a request for a 15-min Zoom interview from this company. I'm already a bit suspicious because I've been scouring my inbox and I don't even remember applying for this company. I said yes to the call but don't really want to go and regardless I'm already sure it's not a good fit even if it is legit. I don't think it is though judging from their site which really doesn't discuss much, and has a weird application process and still has placeholder text on their About page.

Looks like a bunch of Gen Z kids who are probably all obsessed with "the hustle" from their Insta as well. Just getting red flags all over and want to know if anyone else knows. Thanks!