No communication, no culture - Financial Analyst Alorica Employee Review

2.0
Apr 13, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pros are highly variable depending on where you work, who you report to and what your job title is. Benefits aren't great, but could be worse. The managers I've worked with have taken work/life balance seriously, and there's a lot of flexibility in terms of getting your work done on your schedule.

Cons

There are a lot of things I could go into detail on here. The IT department is an absolute disorganized mess, and nothing works the way it's supposed to. Because of near-constant layoffs, hold times for the help desk (which you need often) are running in the 1.5-2 hour range. For corporate functions, there is no onboarding or training, no standardized procedures, and no real sense of who's in charge. The person who runs my team has never introduced himself to us or addressed us, in the almost 2.5 years he's been at the head. There is no semblance of corporate culture, because the company is sprawled out globally and constantly shutting down sites, offshoring staff and moving to work at home models. There are no raises, no bonuses, and no career growth support whatsoever. The biggest thing, though, is that we have an invisible CEO. Andy Lee does not talk to the company. He doesn't run town halls, or have updates about what's going on in the company, or address his employees in any way. Alorica has been falling apart for years. Revenue is dropping, thousands of employees are getting laid off, and no one knows what's happening. This is when the CEO of a company is supposed to step up and keep the employees confident, but we get nothing but radio silence. The rest of the C-suite follows his lead, also not speaking to anyone. In turn, every level of the organization gets the message that communication is not important, and the result is a company where nobody talks to anyone, nobody knows what's happening, and we're all just expecting to either get laid off or for the company to shut down completely. How are we supposed to stay motivated in an environment like that? It's a failure of leadership that comes straight from the top.

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
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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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