GoDaddy Inbound Tech Support and Sales reviews

2.2

29% would recommend to a friend

(5 total reviews)
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Aman Bhutani

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29% positive business outlook

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5 reviews
1.0
Nov 23, 2016
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Pros

Decent benefits, subsidized meals, work out facilities

Cons

Constant turn over, high pressure sales tatics, don't care about customers, poor coordination between departments on product release and policy changes. Difficult to resolve customer issues due to lack of support from management. Ever changing sales metrics.

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GoDaddy Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. Please allow me to address a few of your concerns. - As far as those of us who respond to these emails being out of touch. Most of us have worked our way up from the agent level in the Customer Care Center and are really in touch to what it is like to work in sales. We understand the importance of a great sales organization comes from truly providing a great customer service. - Regarding High Pressure Sales Tactics - GoDaddy is and always has been a customer-first company. We serve and treat it as a honor to come in and do something bigger than ourselves each day. The ultimate goal is to ensure that at the end of each interaction we help our small business customers move forward. It’s our job to ensure that our customers have the right products and solutions for their unique needs, we celebrate upgrades and downgrades. We also believe strongly in our mission and vision and will do everything to we make sure we give customers the opportunity to buy versus selling them. It’s the consulting approach and it differentiates us from the market. In the end we don’t pitch customers a product, because we believe asking good questions to our customers presents them with an opportunity to make informed decisions about how best to give our customer more time doing what they love doing, pitching customers is a statement and as a consumer myself I would not want a statement “aka” pitch presented to me. Great questions that provide insight and an opportunity to learn for both ourselves and our customers, regardless of any transaction, create trust and that builds lasting relationships with our customers. That’s the goal and we treat it as an honor to serve our customers in this fashion. -
5.0
Feb 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Working at Godaddy has brought me more satisfaction as all I do all day long is help small business owners to be more successful.

Cons

Don't get to work out my own house. I would really like to work out of my own home to keep me from the commute.

1.0
Jul 8, 2015
Recommend
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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
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