The bottom line - Agent Alorica Employee Review

2.0
Aug 12, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you need a job that doesn't require you standing or lifting boxes and you can read a script then this place is more than willing to bring you aboard.

Cons

Most of the projects are customer service based which means you'll spend sometimes 75% on the phone with someone irate, confused and verbally combative. If you've worked at a call center before this is nothing new or shocking. There are some projects with pretty chill and understanding demeanors but it's a mixed bag and with one of the projects I was working on I was able to move up to a team lead only for the project to be cancelled due to company's own fault. Back in November of 2017 the servers went down and our project could not take calls for four days over a weekend. Now this was a sales project with commission incentives so not only were agents loosing out on money but so was the client we were selling for. Surprisingly we didn't lose the client but not surprisingly the client wasn't pushing more business our way with new products to sell. So after the holidays around April since we weren't producing as much as we needed to sustain our project it was deemed that we work at home for less pay and buy our own equipment or move over to another project. And with no open positions for team leads I was pushed back down to agent. I was with the company for almost 4 years and in three projects that were closed. I would not recommend a long term career at Alorica.

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lunch lasts for 1 hour. Some managers are nice. Compensation is not bad for a call center job.

Cons

Contradictory set of info provided during training compared to later on, and sometimes you get penalized for providing honest information that you aren't prohibited from giving out. There's about seven million rules that you are expected to follow, and many of them are dumb. Some managers are annoying/jerks. Management gets really frustrated that customers leave from conversations dissatisfied even though we are literally calling them as Collections Agents for a credit card company to tell them they are thousands of dollars in debt. If you get 2 Compliance fails they fire you (and Compliance fails aren't just for regulatory things the company can get sued for). Expected to follow regulations that do not even apply to our particular company. (Newsflash! HIPAA does not apply to credit card companies!). Now if you get 4 dissatisfaction surveys from customers they fire you. (Getting fired at this job is extremely easy! I nearly got fired when I was reluctant to take a transfer call I was NOT authorized to take and upper management said I wasn't being a "good teammate" because of my reluctance to take the call.) Dissatisfaction surverys are also ridiculously hard to dispute. Customers are extremely horrible, foul-mouthed, stupid, vindictive and nasty. You get like 2 hours of PTO per month, which is about 2 days out of the entire year. No holiday pay - they will just send you home with no pay on Christmas. People steal your lunch if you put it in the company fridge. There's an oppressive atmosphere of complete misery that hangs over the whole building. If the company decides to move on to a different call center, they call a townhall meeting the day that it happens without any advance notice to let all the call center agents that they are being furloughed or let go. Also, they have confirmed finding a bed bug problem in the building. Run, run away!

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