OpenTable reviews about "manager"

Constantly changing teams across the board and forcefully make you move to positions you don't want to be in. Salary decreases after tenured years of working there. Pretend like they care about employees and really don't. Managers are worried about their upward mobility. There are so many more companies out there with work life balance and remote options. OpenTable thinks that is enough, but unfortunately it is not. Look elsewhere.

Honestly. There are no cons to this job so far.

Working remotely can be hard sometimes but OpenTable has an amazing office in south Denver- I sometimes wish more people would go in a couple times per week.

There is definitely a cost to being a relatively old company — lots of structures, silos, approval processes that have me thinking "there has to be a better way" on a weekly basis. At the same time, I have seen signs of awareness of the silos problem, and some willingness to address it. I am still new here, so the jury is still out, but I have hope.

Tldr; This role devalues independence, can be dehumanizing and consistently lacks positive reinforcement. Not valued as an employee. This is widespread in every facet. The pay is low, the acknowledgements are lacking, the pressure is immense. Expectations are to handle roughly 45 - 85 cases a day, if not more (and they push for more, always more). The tools they use to judge your work - like the Pillars of Excellence (aka QAs) and the average handle times - often make for asinine interactions and lose out on authenticity. When real authenticity is applied and the customer is retained by the interaction, the QA will still judge it as subpar or not judge it at all because of the length of the interaction (they judge the shortest calls for the most check boxes). This method dwindles the confidence of its employees while also make their working lives more difficult. When I voiced that some of their expectations are dehumanizing, it was met with the idea that I lacked accountability. This is not true. They laid out expectations (increasingly dehumanizing ones) and I applied every request. The issue was that I would use the restroom outside of the alotted 15 minute breaks (which are very strict, are specifically placed and cannot be broken up even for using the restroom). I strove to meet their requests and my own human needs in a number of ways and approaches. 3 ways, to be specific. Each way was not correct because the true expectation was for me to put my basic human needs aside and put forward the corporate ideal. Additionally, it was expected that I relay every time that I went to the restroom exactly what I was doing. When I voiced that this was dehumanizing, I was told I lacked accountability. (At this time I also held some of the highest KPIs on the floor and was a part of the top performing team)

Although I feel cared for as an individual, I do not find my professional growth to be a priority to the company or team.

- Incredibly low salary considering the amount of work done in the role. - No support when you had a complexed issue and those with the task to help treaded you like an idiot - When asking for additional training, always told to find time and do it myself when they never gave us time - Lunch was half an hour and one 15 min break which if you went slightly over they gave you hell for even if you were unwell. - Managers had their favourites and made that very obvious - No opportunity for growth at all, only if you were a favourite - Harshly critiqued on calls if it took longer than 6 minutes without any context on how to improve or consideration of the fact it was more than one issue. - Higher management give CSRs a hard time and expect a lot with NO reward for their efforts - People let go with no warning or reason. - Good people leaving because of how incompetent management were and never took on idea for change - Mangers Would tell others business that was given in privacy which I reported to HR and nothing was done.

Very focused on promoting friends and not much room for growth. Rewarding personally and you can make friend here. A lot of unnecessary procedure and not putting tech first despite selling a tech product. Not a company that rewards loyalty whatsoever. A lot of focus on alcohol.

- If you are not bilingual, you will get paid $17 an hour and $19 if you are bilingual. - Daily schedules could be really unfair sometimes. Schedules are supposed to be split up between phones, chats and emails but you may get the whole day or majority of your day on phones while other people have a lot of chat and email time. I would really love to know how they determine the daily schedule changes. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was favoritism and they pick and choose who does what. - Training could be a bit better, it was short and felt like it was too quick. With all of the info you have to learn working on the restaurant side, you will not be really comfortable with the product until months later.