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IRIS Software Group

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IRIS Software Group Client Support Engineer reviews

3.8

87% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)
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Jason Dies

100% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Client Support Engineer employees have rated IRIS Software Group with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Client Support Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IRIS Software Group is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Client Support Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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31 reviews
2.0
Dec 8, 2020
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Pros

-The work is relatively unchallenging, which works if you want your role to be mundane -Work is strictly between 9am and 5pm weekdays, which is convenient if you don't want to take your work home

Cons

-The biggest con is the customer base & Iris's lack of internal support to deal with them. A majority of customers are often grumpy, aggressive & manipulative, and usually take more help than should be regularly offered. This could be managed if more people were hired and wait times were reduced, but IRIS would rather keep a skeleton staff and make queues long & tedious. Additionally, IRIS should make the customer base more aware that aggressive behaviours won't be tolerated, and that their engineers are normal people just trying to do their best, but again, IRIS would rather please the customer base than show decency to their staff -Very little malleability with booking holidays, 3 months of the year are restricted from booking, and even then you can be denied specific dates -Transferring a customer to a different department is a nightmare. The internal numbers are usually old & unused, which means a customer could end up going in circles, or you have no way to find out who's jurisdiction they should be under. The fact that licenses are split between London & Manchester, and London has no internal staff line for IRIS staff exclusively to use, means that issues with registration can take hours, even weeks, to fix -Facilities are very underfunded outside of London, and the buildings especially in the north west are usually old, in need of repair & filthy. Very little consideration is given to the technical support facilities in this regard, and my department would even joke that a new disgusting smell could be detected every day from the air conditioner -Progression is offered, but not made easily available or advertised often enough. If you want to progress, you have to really chase up any leads you can, and even then you may not get a response

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IRIS Software Group Response
5y
Thanks so much for leaving a review, although we’re surprised and disappointed by your comments. We have recently undergone a transformation project across our Customer Support teams and as part of this project, we’ve implemented a new telephony system across the entire organisation which allows us to better manage our call flows and improves the transfer process for calls internally. A review to further streamline telephone numbers will continue into the new year to improve the call transfer process even more. We record all calls for quality monitoring and would encourage you to immediately report any aggressive calls to your line manager so we can investigate and put things right. It is vital that our customers and colleagues treat each other with respect and any feedback received from either party is handled accordingly. We always monitor wait times, call handling performance and ticket closure times on a daily basis to identify any hot spots to ensure these can be addressed. It’s important that we have the right people in the right place at the right time to deliver an effective and efficient service to our customers and this can sometimes mean we limit the amount of holiday that can be taken at certain times of the year to deal with and customer peaks. All employees are given advance notice of this so they can plan their breaks accordingly – and with a generous 26 days holiday per year plus 3 Giving Back Days, there are plenty of opportunities to take holiday outside of our peak times. We recognise that this year has put exceptional strain on many, and we offer an extensive range of wellbeing support to all our employees – including funding training for dedicated Mental Health First Aiders across the organisation, a weekly worker support group, a free Employee Assistance Program and company-funded private healthcare with generous mental health provisions such as CBT and counselling, as well as a range of online mental health toolkits, resilience training and support from HR. Likewise, before lockdown, we were investing in a programme of office improvements across the UK, and we anticipate this will continue once we are back in the office. If you have any further feedback, please contact me directly, or email EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk. We wish you all the very best in your new role. Kind Regards, Alison Edgley - Customer Service Director
4.0
Nov 30, 2020
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Pros

Good company to work for. People I worked with were all very nice. Free tea/coffee, fruit and a Friday beer.

Cons

Training was pretty non existent. Which in turn made it more difficult to hit target.

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IRIS Software Group Response
5y
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review. We’re delighted that you enjoyed your time here at IRIS and the fantastic people we have here. Once we’re back in the office, we can’t wait for the free hot drinks, fruit and Friday beers to start again! In the past 6 months, there have been many changes within Sales to give our fantastic salespeople the best opportunities for success. The transformation enabled us to share expertise and provide greater opportunities for employees across the IRIS family, increases the potential for cross selling to support our growth, and helps us provide the best possible service to our customers. We also increased the training and development resources on offer for all of Sales to support them in meeting targets. Sales enablement training sessions are now available in a variety formats, focusing on our products and solutions with the addition of a dedicated platform for sharing content, guides and demos. It is important that we empower our salespeople so we've also created a specialised team of product and presales experts to support them. We’ve also launched a new Sales club (Elite Club) which offers an end of year trip for our highest performing salespeople and a number of encouraging awards along the way. We really appreciate your feedback and would welcome any further ideas you’d like to share – if so, please email EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk or reach out to the HR team. Kind regards, the HR team
1.0
Oct 7, 2020
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Pros

You make good friends with the people

Cons

Where to start? The company had a restructure and made a lot of staff redundant, then decided to merge all of sales into one. What is happening now is that the restructure was done so poorly that even more staff (long term, years long serving staff members too) have left. Now there is a drought of knowledge about the products and current staff have hardly anyone to turn to for help. Customers are getting increasingly irate with all departments because no one knows how processes work any more so everything is done extremely slowly, if at all! They have also been pushing for going back to the office despite the threat to public health and the concerns of many staff who think this is a terrible time to be going back with cases rising so badly in the north west. Its like there is no care for our own health, or the health of our families right now (especially when we can do our jobs from home). It doesn’t feel like you’re cared for, as if you try to voice a concern you are shot down by being told you’re being too negative. We need to voice our concerns to you so we can work through them! Fewer people are earning commission now more than ever due to raised targets, poor account data and a new commission scheme which means you are paid bonus each quarter instead of each month. This isn’t the same job most of us walked into where we earned a decent amount of money.

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IRIS Software Group Response
5y
Thanks so much for leaving a review, although we’re surprised and disappointed by your comments. There have been many changes within Sales to give everyone the best opportunities for success and we have done our upmost to share the benefits and been transparent about the impact of the changes on a regular basis. The wider transformation is exciting as it enables us to share expertise and provide greater opportunities for employees across the IRIS family, it increases the potential for cross selling to support our growth, and it helps us provide the best possible service to our customers. We have also increased the training and development resources on offer for all our salespeople to support them in meeting targets. Sales enablement training sessions are now also available in a variety formats, focusing on our products and solutions with the addition of a dedicated platform for sharing content, guides and demos. It is important that we empower our salespeople so we've also created a specialised team of product and presales experts to support them. Unquestionably, we must have the right tools to recognise those who deliver high and exceptional performance, and we have launched a new Sales club (Elite Club) which offers an end of year trip for our highest performing salespeople and a number of encouraging awards along the way. We hope these initiatives go some way to reassure you that we care about our salespeople and their success. We care about your opinions and we’re sorry to hear this hasn’t been your experience recently. We have recently launched Peakon, a tool that allows you to give feedback to your manager and the senior team anonymously and in real time. We are working closely on this to ensure that all suggestions, concerns and ideas raised are listened to and encourage managers to work with you to act upon them. If you have any feedback in the meantime, please don't hesitate to contact your manager, HR representative, or Stephanie Kelly, our Chief People Officer, in complete confidence so that we can help you. Kind regards, the HR team
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