They never promote quality - Web Advisor Mentor Bluehost Employee Review

1.0
Oct 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

They have awesome insurance benefits, providing you sign up for a health exam first., they also have video games, pool, and air hockey in our building.

Cons

They never promote based on seniority or skill. They promote mostly women, and ignore those who have been there for ages and have the qualities of a manager. I have been here quite some time, and every time I apply for coach, I am denied. I am more than qualified, and have put in the time. I have asked to be promoted to senior mentor, and Coach, and have been rejected. They aren't interested in quality talent any longer. Customers no longer matter, they are nothing but dollar signs. The CEO has a build to a billion program this year, and it's all about the revenue, rather than the customer experience. They are actually using the Challenger model where they can wring the most money out of a customer as they can. Our hosting is also terribly infected with Malware. I can't believe how many Site Doctors and Sitelock we are selling, it's almost as if they admins are deliberately infecting the servers to pump up revenue. Bluehost is also outsourcing all of it's projects. Recently, they forced chatters onto the phones, and shipped jobs overseas to India, even though the India quality is much lower than stateside support. Starting on 10/12/2015, all chat support will be Indian, and they've kicked Americans to the curb. So much for keeping it local. We also had a huge security leak wherein many customer accounts were compromised, and internal data was posted online. Yes, I'm looking for a new job.

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