Trying harder will get you more work and no extra pay - Customer Support Jobber Employee Review

1.0
Mar 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture and wonderful people to work with

Cons

If you want to never have the time to focus on yourself and your goals in a place you'l go nowhere fast, Support is the place for you! We are constantly hounded to meet SLAs, and then teased with the idea of the Performance Grid, and Jobber's career jungle gym. The 'performance grid' is a convoluted mess of nonsense that will not help you move forward, up, or anywhere except OUT of Jobber. Our specific department has sunset not one, not two, but THREE managers in the last 1.5 years or so and one after one has been completely incompetent and full of corporate euphemisms. So many of the people hired into management here are the ones who know how to say the right things. Unless they were directly promoted from within Jobber, they are ultimately useless. There's absolutely no certainty about wage increases, and the ones they promise you when you are getting hired can be cancelled with a sweeping HR decision at an instant's notice despite your performance being quality and steady. Members of your direct team are placed into positions of minute power over you in a 'float' role, and 98% of them will micromanage the everloving daylights out of you if you leave so much as 4 minutes between your very complex calls. The client base are alright but some of them have a grossly misplaced sense of entitlement and importance and those ones can be abusive and downright horrid to deal with. This is not helped at all by the fact that the support department are chronically understaffed to begin with.

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1.0
Nov 26, 2024
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Pros

Not a single positive during my time at Jobber

Cons

- Leadership has ZERO strategy to compete against the other players in the market. - Way too many convoluted processes that slow everyone down - They will recruit you from another company and then let you go with absolutely no notice or reason

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3.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It's really a great business with a great product and product reputation. Work life balance is good. Honestly, I don't even mind the RTO mandates as long as it stays hybrid - the Toronto office is great. Some of the home-made tools being developed to speed up development with AI are actually pretty neat.

Cons

The culture in Engineering is turning really sour. I get the impression they're slowly trying to eliminate the People Manager role, which is "fine" until you realize that they have no interest in helping you grow and advance your career here. It's really sad to see, especially for those of us earlier in our careers who do want to move up and stick around long enough to see ourselves AND the business grow. They're trying to eliminate 1-1s under the guise of productivity and shipping out faster and getting managers more involved in dev work. And it does not look like the managers have much of a say. For the most part, you're seen as a replaceable code/feature monkey. Turnover is increasing, especially with those tenured, senior folks, and I don't think they care. Another issue I've ran into is the varying skill level of engineers. There are great engineers here. But, there are some engineers here who just entirely vibe code. And that behaviour is highly encouraged and seen as "impactful" in some teams. Well don't come crying when incidents have increased over the last 6 months then? To be fair, it is entirely team-dependent and some teams have a higher calibre, some lower.

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