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Rackspace Technology reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(3,776 total reviews)

Amar Maletira

48% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Rackspace Technology has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,776 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rackspace Technology employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jan 11, 2013

Talent and Hard Work is Rewarded

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I'm a technical employee. If you work in a customer-facing position, you can learn in months what would likely take years at a normal employer. Most of my colleagues over the years at the Rack have been very friendly, and openly shared knowledge with me. I see other reviewers complaining about pay, but I know that my pay is absolutely fair. If you are good at what you do, work hard, and know how to sell yourself, you will be generally be rewarded for it. My income is not that far from being double what it was back when I started at the company, 5 years ago. The company also promotes and hires quite a bit from within. I've been promoted twice to various technical roles based on my interest and the company having faith in me. Most of the time I feel a bit spoiled... but in a good way... and that gives me incentive to make sure I do my part. If you're thinking of working at the company, make sure you get decent starting pay. If you are insistent, and in demand, you will have some leeway here. Try to get a good feel for the team and your manager. I know that's a tough order when you don't even work there, but be creative.

Cons

There is a lot of dead-weight around, which is compensated by the true talent at the company. Some of the managers at the company should not be managers. But to be fair, I've really only had 1 bad one out of the 4 I've had so far. I've heard some bad stories though. I think the fanatical culture stuff that is imbued upon new employees is a little over the top.

4.0
Jan 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good Training -Good place to start -Rapid growth -Lots of room for progression as a Tech -Secure job, no redundancies

Cons

-Management dont listen to line-workers -Constantly coerced into overtime due to company growing fast and difficulty hiring. -Slightly lower salary than competitors. -Bad shift rotas -Sales oversell solutions, way more than customers need, they are too incentivised by commision

3.0
Jan 3, 2013

Starts out fun, then reality sinks in

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Outtings which are pretty decent but it really depends on your team lead who may or may not put any effort/thought at all into it. - Free soda/fruit - Some amazing coworkers who are very knowledgable - Flexible hours - If you can survive you'll gain a ton of valuable technical skills

Cons

Lets start from the beginning. Rackspace will try to brainwash you through "Rookie-O". You'll see many who will genuinely drink the kool aid and think the company is heaven sent. It's hard to describe rookie o other than a week-long celebration of the company/weird team building/core value/strength and weakness finding seminars. They will particularly preach the strength and weakeness part. Some of your fellow new hires will expect almost psychic readings from the founders about how their particular strengths will apply to them in the future. The funny thing is I've never seen anyone use or mention it after Rookie-O. Next, you're out of rookie-o. I hope you like working at a call center if you're on the support (IT) side of the game. That's pretty much what you're in for. Prepare yourself to be logged into your phones even though many of your co-workers won't be. You're going to be answering phone calls all day. When you're not on the phone (this never happens unless you log yourself out) you will be greeted by a neverending ticket queue. Training will be non-existant unless you work in sales which seems to have endless options. New products will constantly be introduced but don't expect to get training on that either. If you wonder why you aren't trained on anything you'll be told to just be 'fanatical' and it's 'trial by fire' or that's just the way it's always been..aka they don't care enough to set you up for success. Staffing will be constantly too low which will burn many out. Management will claim the yhave a hard time finding candidates. Maybe that's true, but I've also heard frequent talk about underpaid salaries so.

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