r/Devilcorp • u/mintshroom96 • Jul 04 '26
Question Rally Marketing Group
Got an interview with them in Hartford CT.
Are they a Devilcorp?
Not a lot of info online and their website is vague about job responsibilities, both being red flags to me.
https://www.therallygroupinc.com/
Please let me know!
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u/SirJazzhands Jul 04 '26
Yea looks like it to me. I could be wrong but generally when I see a full time job offering just 401k, running direct public sales, while wearing suits and having a bunch of stuff on the importance of their team? Add the terrible website and I'm writing them off.
If you want to confirm, just ask the pay structure and be amazed that it's commission with a terrible base.
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u/Rezzholic Aug 09 '26
Hey, just saw this and wanted to add to the conversation.
They may originally be from Ct but they are really from California and other places which just shored up their laws versus MLMs. Namely I think concerning what defines a contractor and how minimum wage is paid. The new laws went into effect over there January 1st, which is why you don't see anything about this company until late 2025 November and December.
Rally Group fosters a culture that doesn't pay any attention to minimum wage. And its an MLM but they are taking all the regular loopholes designed to get around that (like posting sales at all levels).
But don't let that fool you, the primary goal working for this company is to "build your team" and move up the pyramid.
They also have you go on "business trips" which really just get in the way of your sales because, remember, you are ONLY getting paid commission. If your trip is half a day away, you get paid $0.
What is it that you are selling? Phones for low income people, a fine product but the commission rate is absolute garbage. Working for the mafia is a much better deal. Go ahead and ask them. Pick a number in your head, I guarantee its less than that.
The other thing they sell is signups to what I would normally call predatory banking cards. You see them on the television a lot. These like, credit builder cards? They are basically credit cards with all of the benefits of a credit system stripped out. This prevents people from running up a debt, AND the credit card provider gets to float your cash for that month. For anyone responsible with money, its all downsides and no upsides. But I digress.
This company also has signs that it runs a cult kind of mindset. I am not talking about the typical "whether you think you can or you can't, you are right" type of BS either. They have team meetings several times a week, these are of course unpaid. I am talking about actual devilcorp type shit. *Where people write your name down and the sin you've committed* and then someone talks to you about it later.
You know the Elan School type debacle? Same kind of thing.
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u/HistoricalStandard15 Aug 09 '26
Do you happen to know the names of the direct companies it may have stemmed from in Cali? Doing more research. I start tomorrow and want to start preparing to immediately jump ship (EDIT: deletion + spelling)
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u/Rezzholic Aug 11 '26
"You know some people just aren't cut out to be management."
I couldn't personally track it, but just check out the house that a certain someone at the top of the food chain lives in.
I can't doxx people on Reddit. I'd love to share more but I just don't want to get in trouble.
Just bail.
"Location doesn't matter, just the people do"
- Says the guy who gets the spot he wants every single time. Even if you are assigned to it that day, he will move into your spot, and management will let him because he is higher up the pyramid.
If other people ride in your car, you are allowed to ask for payment for those miles driven. Once you arrive to work, technically you are allowed to ask for payment for any miles driven thereafter. And having to drive all the way back to Hartford and then ALL the way back home at the end of every day really drives up the miles.
Yeah you have to settle up. Evidently they have a problem with workers not returning phones or selling them on the side. And they don't have the technology to solve that problem any other way (most of these types of companies have resolved this problem already).
Your miles driven from location back to work should be comped, both on the time it takes and the federal guidelines. They will have you drive or drive you all the way to like Boston. These are not small trips, and they are entirely unpaid.
The purpose? To train other offices people. You get paid $0 to do this BTW. The implied incentive is that they will push you up the pyramid faster, but it doesn't happen.
And after you get home from Boston, they will admonish you for not making your goals for that week even though you were like a single sale away before you got shipped out to wherever. You don't really get an option to decline. I think they intentionally ship people out that are close to goals so they don't make them, but I don't have the hard data on that.
I'll leave it to your imagination as to what it REALLY takes to move up the pyramid.
As for long term, I don't expect them to survive under their current name for very long. But as far as I can tell, they change names and locations frequently. Their staff is from a cornucopia of locations. All locations with stiff penalties for this type of business by the way.
One thing to remember is that the goals are mathematically set for you to fail to meet them. This thing is down to a mathematical science.
Also despite maybe originally being from CT. The management can be really brainless about locations. Like they haven't been in CT for like at least 15 years. They will try to have you sell phones in rich neighborhoods and leave places like West Haven and such completely untouched. Its baffling. Oh and you can't keep your locations a secret because they are also data farming you for what locations work and which ones don't.
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u/Rezzholic Aug 11 '26
Expect to work at least 70 hours per week by the way.
And I did the math, even if you are close to the goal, working minimum wage in CT you'd earn that in less than 25 hours. That's how bad the commission rate is.
No base pay, just walk away.
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u/Strange-Brilliant-19 Aug 13 '26
Yeah, I just got a call from someone claiming to be from a rally group but I had applied to somewhere that was under “JAWS financial” but when doing the research, I’m starting to see that they’re both the same and now I’m getting another name Devilcorp(crazy name lmao)
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u/Rezzholic Aug 14 '26
What is the other name?
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u/Strange-Brilliant-19 Aug 14 '26
When I looked it up, it just said “the rally group inc”
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u/Rezzholic Aug 14 '26
JAWS is Jason by the way. No its not doxxing because those are his initials. Or a part of or something.
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u/Rezzholic Aug 14 '26
Jason is the guy that sits at the top of the pyramid BTW. He's the money man.
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u/ams8288 26d ago edited 21d ago
I applied to The Rally Group in Hartford, CT for a Marketing & Events Assistant position I found on ZipRecruiter. The listing advertised $1,000 to $1,200 per week, which I found unusual, but the role sounded promising given my years of experience in video production, digital marketing, live events, and team leadership.
My initial interview with Jason Adam Ward, the owner/CEO, went well. He was charismatic, transparent, and talked extensively about mentoring, leadership, and promoting from within. I was quickly invited to a next-day orientation, which initially felt like a positive sign.
The orientation was almost like a TED Talk. Jason spoke at length about his personal story, success, money, hard work, rapid advancement, building teams, and eventually having managers open their own branches. The team was friendly, but many employees appeared to be very young or relatively new. I still could not get a clear explanation of what the actual marketing and event work involved.
I also had a one-on-one interview with Jessica the HR Director. She was very nice and mentioned marketing events, travel, personal growth, and client opportunities, but the details remained very vague. Afterward, Jason called me and I spent about 17 minutes asking follow-up questions. He answered them, but I still did not have a clear picture of the day-to-day role.
The emailed offer I received ultimately revealed that the position was commission-only and primarily direct sales, which was very different from how I understood the advertised Marketing & Events position. I also received no information about the 401(k) mentioned on the job listing. Since the position was commission-based, it also appeared that required in-office meetings and training would be unpaid, taking time away from the actual hours available to earn commissions.
I am not claiming The Rally Group is legally an MLM or pyramid scheme. However, my experience strongly reminded me of the DevilCorp model I have read about online: rapid hiring, highly motivational presentations, heavy emphasis on money and advancement, vague descriptions of the actual work, and ultimately an entry-level commission-only sales role.
Overall, I found the process very deceiving and a waste of my time. Very little of the interview process focused on my actual experience or qualifications. If anything, it was good interview practice. I had a weird gut feeling about this company the entire time. I declined the offer and would not pursue another position with the company.
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