Sutherland reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,282 total reviews)
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Dilip R. Vellodi

70% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Sutherland has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,282 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sutherland employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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11K reviews
3.0
Jun 16, 2015

Unprofessional and Beyond Disorganized

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The one thing I did enjoy was my co-workers and some of the customers that called in.

Cons

Our schedules and desks changed every 2 weeks or so...I lost count on how many different desks I had...the turnover was outrageously high.

2.0
May 7, 2015
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Pros

Work from home that it no other Pro's at all but since there's a 20 word minimum for this section I have to type something so read the cons.

Cons

Their "Tech Support" position for Cox Communications is in reality a commission sales position where your pay rate is determined by how many calls you convert into a sale. The only metric they care about is your conversion metric, take to many calls and not convert enough and you get "the talk" about how is all about creating that sale for improved customer experience.

1.0
Mar 17, 2015
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Pros

Got hired at job fair. Paid 5 week training and 2 week "nesting" period Relatively accessible by public transportation Decent commission rates. Calls largely come in the morning hours, so after 2-3 p.m. (eastern time) as long as your not in the green queue (will discuss later) you're largely in the clear for the most part.

Cons

1.In the AT&T MSS (Mobile service/sales) program, the pay was a 10 dollar an hour base with commission possibility 2.Your chances of lasting a reasonable time depends on which team leader you get assigned to once training and nesting is over (some are more lenient with new people and some expect you get tons of sales immediately) 3.WARNING- Long read Commission is largely determined by 2 main factors: 1. Selling u-verse tv and broadband internet (You do not get paid for dsl and home phone lines). 2. Satisfaction Surveys from customers. The flaw with this system for sales part is that you have to be in the "green queue" (you get in the the queue by getting sales) from areas have any shot at calls from u-verse areas for sales that count (tv/broadband) if you are not in the "green queue" you essentially have less than a 2% chance at sales. Now for the survey part, short and simple is customer satisfaction but the pitfall is you will get tons of customers demanding adjustments on their cell phone bills for self-inflicted extra charges. If your customer calls to get to adjustment for a bogus reason and they don't get what they want, guess what bad survey. So commission for surveys are largely out of your hands. 4. Team managers- some will have patience will people fresh out of training/nesting but some will demand perfection right out the gate while not wanting to develop there own people which is their job, I happened to end up with the latter who happened to just become a manager and seeking to prove his worth. 5. Easy to get fired. Followed company ethics, near perfect attendance (it was -6 outside don't judge me lol) surveys numbers were rapidly improving and got terminated for lack of sales despite only receiving 6 calls from u-verse areas the entire time I was there.

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