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Life Extension reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(213 total reviews)

Paul Gilner

43% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Life Extension has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 213 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Life Extension employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.6 stars).

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213 reviews
1.0
Aug 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

For a incoming call center the pay is decent at $14/hr. Free medical benefits for yourself (however it is not possible to add family coverage and still take home a decent check).

Cons

Office bullying behavior; women there are very competitive and get very jealous of any newcomers whom they feel are a threat (even if one were to keep to themselves). Many individuals smile in your face but talk about you behind your back with other colleagues. If you stand up for yourself then you will be the target for disciplinary actions. The only way to work there is to either ignore the high school behavior or leave. The customer service area is ran by favoritism. Also, there were numerous times where supervisors would be disrespectful towards you for no reason whatsoever. The atmosphere at Life Extension feels stifling, as if you are under surveillance at a prison (being that I've never been to one, I can only assume that it comes quite close). HR is not there to help you and you will be made to feel as if you are the instigator. Keep in mind that there are individuals who constantly abuse ACW and will walk around and speak to their co-workers, while you are stuck taking more than your fair share of calls. Attention has been brought to this scenario on multiple occasions but no serious action is taken towards fixing this issue. My advice would be to STAY FAR AWAY from this company. There is NO WORK/LIFE balance and customer service agents are made to feel like they are garbage. This is ridiculous to me because we are the first contact with the customers. Also QA is mostly subjective. It's a luck of the draw as far as which QA rep listens to your calls.

2.0
Jul 17, 2015

It was a good company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Monthly/yearly bonuses. Company paid insurance for the individual. No one can afford family coverage.

Cons

The customers are bullies, management is reactive instead of proactive even when you bring things to their attention. The worst thing I saw over the 5 years there is the lack of accountability. It used to be a great company but between the company growing faster than they can keep up with, the inner bickering with management and essentially being over worked all the time it turned bad, fast. How can you only give good schedules to the poor people that work 45 days straight? Recently, even holidays are no longer a given for those with senority. The environment is toxic because most are unhappy, but its what holds everyone together, the contempt we all have for how much we are failed.

2.0
Jul 13, 2015

Health Advisor

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As you can tell from previous reviews this Company can be a challenging one. There are two things I really enjoyed about this job: the direct people I work with and the amount of information you will learn just due to nature of giving information all day over the phone. I can only speak for the Las Vegas location. Even though you're packed like sardines, the people you work with are smart, kind and most importantly maintain a sense of humor (the supervisors too) even when the days can get brutal. You will basically be on the phone playing musical chairs with health concerns and topics. Sometimes you'll get senile/angry customers, other times you'll get genuine people who just need help and information. Regardless, if you don't know much on said topic customer calls in about, you will know it by the end of the call as you frantically Google what you can with the hold times you're given. Some view this as a challenge, others...well you get the picture.

Cons

First and foremost: the pay. Customer service starts off at $14. A 'standard' H.A. will a bachelors will get $18. For a health/medical degree, this is certainly the lower end of the spectrum. Instead of raising the hr rate, they put non guaranteed bonuses on display to distract you. QA ensures that you'll be bent over for customers. Aggressive, non-relevant callers, and the unforgiving "chronic callers" exploit this as they learn HA's literally have no defense to this. This company displays EXTREME lethargy in banning callers that 99% of business would not do business with even if they were spending money. If you don't have a strong will and discipline, do not take this job for this exact reason. Where some reviews have cited flexibility with vacation and schedule in the past, this is all gone. This company is struggling to maintain a solid core of health advisors especially as the business is growing. The result is increased call volume, but with no back up support. Vacations, time-off, ect are extremely hard to arrange because work force really can't afford to have one less person off the phone. The dilemma of not having enough employees, especially HA's, on staff to meet business demand is that dire.

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