GoDaddy Inbound Sales and Support reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(102 total reviews)
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Aman Bhutani

66% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Inbound Sales and Support employees have rated GoDaddy with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 102 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Inbound Sales and Support professionals have a good working experience there. GoDaddy is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Inbound Sales and Support professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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102 reviews
1.0
Jul 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Benefits, decent starting pay, plenty of things to take your mind off work (paddle ball tables, go karts, bikes, work out room). Great cafeteria.

Cons

Training is inefficient. Was told in interview there would be 4 weeks of training (two weeks in classroom and two weeks on phones). Training is called "the ranch" consisted of quick training. Total of 5 days instructional (including two half days hooked up to another rep to listen in on phone calls). After you pass "the test" on day 6 you are thrown on the phones. In 6 months I have seen a lot of people come and go, including supervisors/leads. One sales team can go thru several supervisors/leads in a year. Each supervisor has a different style or set of expectations. I've seen supervisors that will penalize you for asking a question regarding tech support that can be found in the "vault". For every product there is an article that you have to read in order to troubleshoot a product. With any call center, customers can be very difficult. Can not disconnect on someone who is being inappropriate or who is cussing you out. Same people who are angry at GoDaddy for their products not working are scoring you on your customer service. They can take out their anger and frustration that their business is down due to some sort of malfunction even though you provided impeccable customer service. Sales matrix is difficult to achieve when call volume is low. Trading schedules is difficult to impossible. Calls are manipulated. If your sales are low, you are filtered tech support calls. If your sales are high you are filtered sales calls. End of month or bonus period a great sales person will get tech calls. Makes it difficult to get the higher bonus tiers or you will watch your bonus level go down because you didn't answer enough calls (can miss a bonus by just one phone call). Reps will try to dump a tech call as fast as possible to get into a sales call. One can find themselves working overtime to try to meet sales goals when call volume is low. Easy to burn out, I've seen co-workers nearly in tears from customers screaming at them. I had one co-worker that had his life threatened by a caller. High stress during outages.

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GoDaddy Response
11y
Thank you for your feedback on the new hire on-boarding process at GoDaddy. We are continuously working to improve our new hire experience. Regarding our timeframe for training, currently our standard training consists of 7 classroom days and 13 on-the-job training days (4 weeks total). The 13 days of OJT is a mixture of classroom training and time on the phones taking live calls while receiving direct support from Trainers. This format provides sufficient time for our new hires to have a strong foundation before joining their individual teams. In the near future we will be implementing more application based rehearsal in classroom training as well as increased frequency of knowledge checks and we believe these enhancements will continue to improve our new hire on-boarding program. Additionally, we continue to focus on how to best help our, leaders to provide effective coaching and development in an effort to equip our employees with the skills they need to be successful. We understand that this job isn’t easy, and we are very proud of our employees. There are times when customers are going to be frustrated, and if a customer becomes abusive as you pointed out, we ask our agents to pass that type of call on to a member of leadership. We do not want any of our agents to feel abused, and work hard to provide our agents with career opportunities to ensure they don’t get “burnt out”. Our focus is provide the customer with a world class customer experience, this includes consulting with our customers and helping them grow their business. We do not separate sales and support because we value our customer’s time and we care about their dreams coming true. When a customer calls us, they are routed to an agent based on the customer’s needs, they are never routed based on performance. Training is the same for every agent, and we continue to provide on the job training throughout an agent’s career. We do this to ensure that agents are qualified to take care of our customers, and that they feel comfortable with products as the market continues to evolve. We do not manipulate calls and do not intend to, create an unfair advantage for our employees or our customers. We apologize that you did not have the ideal experience during your time with the company. This feedback is valued and we will use this to make our company better as we strive to continually, make our customers and employees feel valued, they come first, plain and simple. We pride ourselves in creating work environments that allow for multiple avenues for employees to alleviate stress and have fun. This is also seen in our expansive remodel projects that are rolling out. Sincerely, Kara Nuss & James Ewing
2.0
Apr 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Positive environment among most regular associates, and some supervisory staff -Fun team-related decorations and competitions (although it often seemed forced and overdone) -Some flexibility with when you can take breaks or lunch depending on supervisor -Subsidized, healthy on-site lunches. $2 for a decent sized meal, $5 for double meal. -Pretty solid benefits package for an hourly job, despite being incorrectly or inadequately described during the hiring process and training.

Cons

-No opportunity to change shifts even w/satisfactory performance unless Supervisor and Manager approve -Horrible shift choices for new employees, often getting stuck with shifts that contribute to a lack of success -Recruiting strategy is to only tell half truths about job requirements, expectations, and ability to move up in the company -Very cult-like mentality, especially among Supervisors and Managers. -Management will seek retribution through various indirect methods toward employees that criticize or discuss areas of improvement for the company in any way -If you don't get along with your manager right away, you should quit immediately and try again in 90 days because once one manager doesn't like you (whether they have a good reason or not), half the supervisory staff doesn't like you. -During reviews, management will "subtly" suggest you quit while providing bogus advice on improving sales numbers even if only for one month -They tell you it is not really about sales numbers, but it is ALL about sales numbers -Used to provide bonus incentive for excellent customer satisfaction survey scores, but got rid of it. They then lowered the minimum standard for that score to something I felt a monkey with a banana phone could achieve and implemented a minimum call per day standard (because greater number of calls per day = more sales). This forces employees to choose between meeting minimum call per day requirements (which they must reach in order to get a sales bonus) and actually satisfying the needs of the customer. Unfortunate that the employer would put their associates in a position that incentivizes them to drag the company's reputation through the mud. -The only customers who appreciate your help are the same people that yell at you while you explain what Internet Explorer and Google Chrome are to them. -I was asked if I'd like to interview for a position in another department after a manger from that department sat in on some of my calls. I said yes. The following day I was told I would have the opportunity to interview and was given three times to choose from during the following week. The next day that manager decided to message me letting me know that even if I passed the interview I would not be considered for the job because my performance metrics were not sufficient, but that I could still interview if I'd like. This happened despite the fact that they openly stated they would be ignoring performance metrics for transfer applicants for anyone in their first 90 days, which I was. -About half the employees I spoke to believed that there was call queue manipulation, which is speculative, but doesn't seem unlikely -Human Resources duties are handled by a 3rd party offsite company with no direct line leaving employees very vulnerable to the whims of management and their interpretation and application of policies which change almost weekly

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GoDaddy Response
11y
Here at Godaddy we are always looking to improve the customer and the employee experience. In our Customer Sales and Service Representative role we are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, so we have many different shifts available. We assign open shifts to those interested based on performance history. Most of our customers are new to the Online Business world and we need talented patient consultants who can sympathize with the customers frustrations and help them get their business online. This requires our employees to reach out to other departments and leaders to find an answer when they do not have one. This collaboration is what helps to develop our skills and leads to innovation in our products and processes. We encourage feedback in many forms internally to not only improve how we work, but to coach and develop those who are struggling. We offer a 4 week training program to set our new hires up for success, not only teaching them about our products benefits and features but to learn how to utilize the many resources to assist in the customer experience. We do not out source our HR department and have HR resources available in each center to assist the employee's with any situation. Thank you for your feedback.
1.0
Jan 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay was good, benefits great,, some other minor perks like discounted food.

Cons

No support from Human Resources or managers whatsoever. While working there, my younger brother passed away requiring me to take time off. After leaving 15 messages, one person in HR called me back 13 days after the fact to explain benefits to me, which is not what I was calling about. They outsource leave and paperwork to Matrix (3rd party) and after jumping through hoops and completing my paperwork THREE times, they claimed they never got it. Godaddy supervisors are of no help either. Not one single supervisor (8 different sups in a year) knew who I reported to as I was listed on a bilingual team whose supervisor was second shift. The biggest issue was that being 3rd shift, no HR reps were available to us. I waited around most morning after my shift to speak with them but they rarely are in their office. Being part of certain cliques will get you advancement regardless of qualifications.

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GoDaddy Response
11y
I am so very sorry to hear about the loss of your brother and about your poor experience with the GoDaddy Human Resources team. As a leader in People Operations, I take this feedback very seriously, and we will work hard as a team to assess where the gap may have occurred. A 13 day returned response is unacceptable. Additionally, we continue to partner closely with all of our vendors to make sure that our processes are streamlined and easy for all team members to follow. It is very unfortunate that you had to complete paperwork three different times. The People Operations team is here to partner with GoDaddy team members at all levels and across all shifts, both locally as well as internationally. If a site People Operations representative is not typically onsite at certain hours, we are willing to flex schedules to meet with team members, and are available at all hours in case of an emergency. We will increase the communication of such so that the teams are aware, as it appears that this was not properly communicated to you, and I apologize that you had to wait around after your shift. Thank you again for your feedback.
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