Because Reviews

4.0

71% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)

Alexi Suvacioglu

86% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Because has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Because employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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40 reviews
1.0
17 Jun 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay is decent for a single person with no children.

Cons

The positive reviews here were left by people who work at HQ in Redwood City. If you get hired to work in Las Vegas you will not have the same experience. First and foremost the description of the job omits the fact that is a customer service AND retention position. If a customer says they want to cancel there is a specific script that has to be followed. It's not difficult but if Because was upfront about the nature of the job I would not have applied. We have hourly stats posted in a group chat and if they're not good the owner will have a manager micromanage you for the rest of the day. The second thing I took issue with is Because Market's response to Covid-19. There was no response. Our members are mostly elders and Because did not change the return policy at all, which entails the member taking their packages to FedEx to be returned within thirty days. Being that Covid is particularly lethal to older people I found this insensitive at the very least because it was not safe for them to go outside. Next the call system we used is absolutely terrible. It is impossible to take retention calls since the members could not hear us. We were still expected to follow the script even if the only response we got from the members was "I can't hear you." I got cursed out by customers almost everyday. Lastly, I would not recommend this position to anyone because of the mess the outsourced partners got them into. We are expected to rebuild trust with customers who have been mislead by incompetent agents Because hired in the past to cut corners. It's not something beyond my skill set but all of these issues compounded with a pandemic ultimately made this position too much for too little pay.

1.0
3 Dec 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome office dogs that I will miss. Generally friendly and involved (if completely stymied) team members Kitchen Reasonably accessible for commuting. In-N-Out in walking distance.

Cons

This is not a customer service or customer support department. It is purely a retention department. During the interview process, you will be told that you have the latitude to make changes to improve the customer service process. This is untrue. The expectation is that you will magically fix the rampant systemic problems by doing the exact same thing that has failed repeatedly for the company. You will be expected to pull churn reports hourly, which involves gathering information from multiple systems that will show you conflicting data, while listening to all calls from whichever agent is currently annoying the owner (who will remind you repeatedly that he is the owner of the company), then listening to all calls again with the agent, the owner, and the rest of the in-house CS team while the owner berates the agent in question. Two hours later, be prepared to repeat the exact same process, and not accomplish any actual work. In their defense, the company admits they have made mistakes in the past, but shows no inclination to learn from them, and would prefer to double down on them while expecting a different outcome. The outsourced agents themselves have lived in fear of churn numbers for so long that they barrel over customers with upsell attempts, and avoid telling customers that they are still members of a subscription service in order to list a call as a "save". Agents are considered entirely disposable - there is no path for growth, you start as a contractor and will always be a contractor. They have the same value to the company as a desk or a monitor. You are an asset that depreciates from day one. There is no onboarding or training. You'll be handed a laptop from the pile, given an email account and access to the internal tools, then are expected to go figure it out. I left a position at another company for this one, as I initially thought that this would be an extremely interesting challenge. I ignored the red flags during my final interview with the owner (my total combined time with him through the interview process was less than 15 minutes, which should have been another red flag), such as his repeated insistence that "he owned the company, he had the last word on everything, and he expected immediate response when he asked for something". You should avoid making the same mistake I did.

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