Clearlink reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(945 total reviews)

Mark Larkin

62% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Clearlink has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 945 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Clearlink employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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945 reviews
2.0
Mar 5, 2017

Needs a face lift

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Made great friends, high energy, good potential, focused, decent commission, good tra

Cons

Micro managed, weak lower management, very "clicky", rumors of unacceptable behavior that were eventually confirmed, management encouraged you to mislead and trick customers to buy

3.0
Nov 28, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The culture at this company is it's biggest pro and con. It's a fun, relaxed environment that is mostly young 20-somethings. If you're looking for a more professional feel, then you'll find yourself quickly exhausted here. If you're 19-24 and prefer a casual job that won't expect too much maturity out of you, than this is a great place, and will probably be one of the best paying jobs for that criteria. For many, this will be their first real full-time sales job. When you're fresh out of school, the prospect of making $400-600 in hourly, plus another $200-700 in commission that's paid out weekly is fantastic. For the top performers, this is an incredibly job Free gourmet coffee machines, soda fountains, and frequent catering, along with on campus access to a (slightly overpriced) market, as well as regular food trucks. There are certain floors that are geared towards career sales. Whether this be business accounts, insurance, or home security, there are definitely places to move into that make really good money, and appeal to seasoned salespeople.

Cons

The culture. If you're attempting to grow up, and take your job seriously, then you'll feel incredibly out of place here. Unfortunately, once you strip the fun culture away, it reveals a company with many, many internal flaws that is only holding on because their income structure is incredibly lucrative. This become even more clear when Sykes took over, because the vision of the two companies doesn't line up very well. The commission structure is awkward. Your commission percentage is based on the performance of everyone else on the floor. If you have a particularly high performance week, then you're pushing other people into earning a smaller percentage. The hours are horrid. Many new hires find themselves on evenings (usually 11:30 - 8pm or 12:30 - 9pm) which on its own is acceptable, but it's made worse by the fact that they hold your weekends hostage. Getting a true 2 day weekend is a privilege reserved for long term employees. Your days off are usually 1 weekend day, and 1 week day, and they'll never give you Friday/Saturday or Sunday/Monday as those 2 days off. Most likely you'll see yours as Friday/Sunday, Thursday/Sunday, Saturday/Monday or Wednesday/Saturday and you've probably got a year before you're allowed to have the 2 days in a row off that you've taken for granted at every other company. As I mentioned in the "Pros" section, the compensation is fantastic for top performers. Unfortunately, on the flip side, I've watched many average/aspiring sales reps become unmotivated and quit because of poor compensation, and then not getting any attention from coaches. If you're not generating enough revenue, then they have little interest in helping you improve. They'd rather just pressure you into quitting so that they don't have to worry about you any more. Moving up in the company is a bit convoluted and secretive. If you get on upper management's good side, and golf with the right people, you'll pretty easily find yourself in a cushy salary job. They claim to reward performance, but in my time at the company, it always felt like a Boy's Club with a strong "bros before numbers" attitude. I feel like this is exacerbated by a poorly defined chain of command, so you never really know how to move up until you already have. Interviews from internal applications feel very patronizing, because many people interviewing you don't even hide the fact that it's just a formality and they've already made their choice to promote a friend before even posting the listing.

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1.0
Feb 2, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The organization seems to pay decent. I can't think of many others. If you like golf, high fructose corn syrup, and Vegas parties - you'll probably fit in.

Cons

For as far software development concerns, this place is a joke. Their architecture is goliath in size, archaic in stack, and beyond disorganized. The repos are huge and practices are poor. They provide a lot of excuses on why this came to be, with little effort towards refactoring. If you speak up on this subject, odds are they will let you go. Most developers at the organization have never worked elsewhere, and are junior to say the least. Software development managers are plain lazy human beings, and some have zero programming experience. On the front end, there is no code review, no way to check others work, and you almost always have to work directly on the live site with no source control. The efforts made to try and streamline any technical process are ugly bandaids that make the technological debt bleed incrementally faster. It should've thrown a huge red flag when they made a significant offer with no technical questions in the interview. Be wary.

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