iBUYPOWER reviews about "benefit"

Weak organizational structure: Managers/supervisors across departments are not on the same page when it comes to meeting company goals and various departments will establish SOPs in ways that do not mesh well with others, leading to bottlenecks in the workflow. The hierarchy of management is saturated to a select few running multiple departments and adverse situations will easily get over their heads. The information systems used here are also outdated and have barriers to vital data that certain departments need; this results in heavy reliance on asking for info from other departments such as customer service asking for an ETA to purchasing, some of these follow ups can take days to respond. Blatant favoritism: Personal favorites by many higher ups tend to get away with a slap to the wrist even with egregious decisions while others making minor mistakes would be put on the limelight (i.e. one employee who habitually calls in sick will get the okay even on an abrupt notice while another will be demanded a doctor’s note to authorize use of sick leave); same manager who continuously swept a former supervisor’s appalling behavior towards customers under the rug up until a YouTube content creator exposed it online. Questionable KPIs: Most of the evaluations of work here are based on raw numbers and meeting quota. Managers and supervisors don’t factor the complexities of certain assignments such as building products with delicate and expensive parts, which leads to departments such as production going for the easier tasks first at the of tedious ones not being handled in a punctual manner. Workers not being met with those quotas despite given complicated assignments would still be subject to disciplinary action. Poor handling of COVID: The company initially had the right idea of implementing work from home protocols during the height of the pandemic but kept efforts adjacent to the bare minimum. The work from home procedures were temporary until early 2021 and even the setups were still questionable to following CDC guidelines (i.e. work from home was only rotational for employees with call center and data entry tasks with no proper social distancing, and no preventative measures to stop or mitigate the spread of it during winter season until it was significant enough to potentially shut the building down) Unethical business practices: Sweatshop labor tactics are a common practice here; the web department is complicit with greenlighting management’s negligent practices that severely affect other departments (i.e. ignoring alarming requests from accounting to fix their website that was systematically duplicating credit card transactions during the holiday rush, creating an excruciating amount of work for customer service and accounting while flooding bad PR for marketing and social media teams) During the 2020 holiday season, they’ve also falsely advertised guaranteed deliveries of all Black Friday / Cyber Monday orders before Christmas on their website without any input from other departments if it was feasible; most of those orders did not fulfill that promise, and led to production rushing their work to mitigate damages that were already done; shipping working with severe bottlenecks while expected to meet unrealistic quotas; customer service, sales, marketing, and tech support getting constantly bombarded with angry customers; RMA and tech support ill-equipped to keep pace with the staggering amount of parts and repairs needed to go out; and accounting having to process a bottomless amount of paperwork to clean up web’s mess. OSHA violations also happen on occasion: An employee who had a wrist injury with a cast still had to drive to work and perform ergonomic tasks such as typing; the water systems had a roach problem that wasn’t addressed until a couple of weeks later while the water was still running despite alarming concerns to HR. It’s clear the modus operandi of this company is to sell as much products as it can, consumer feedback or employee morale be damned; only reason this company is able to stay afloat in its current state is because of the global chip shortage. Dysfunctional management: Management expects workers to go above and beyond for pay well below industry standard and have the audacity to complain about their employees being unproductive while failing to provide reasonable solutions to address those issues. They are notorious for creating a hostile work environment such as throwing personal tantrums (i.e. kicking an employee’s chair and yelling at that person around other employees over mistakes that could be corrected with civility); another instance is threatening to cut employees' bonus over “whining” that were simply concerns on follow ups for information unavailable to their reps to help around the company; there were also allegations of racism that played into the rampant favoritism, rather than trying to make amends with employees, management aggressively dismissed the allegations, swept it under the rug, and the culprit played victim over them. Fundamentally, management just lacks the emotional intelligence to deal with disgruntled / uncomfortable employees and it strongly reflects on their turnover rate of a revolving door even before COVID.

Very low salary. So many managers who shouldn’t be managers. Favoritism in each department, No accountability. Each department would rather blame each other than collaborate to fix problems. Terribly executed communications. No SOP. No documentation of any kind for tackling projects, whether it’s print, web, marketing graphics. There is nothing documented. No ones heard of scrums, or stand-up meetings? Status of projects are unknown until they’re due. And the status is usually that it didn’t get done. Throw away any ambition, or new ideas. This place is truly corporate.

Where to begin? As other reviews have stated the biggest problem is upper management or their lack of management to be more exact. The whole company lacks direction. Departments are given tasks that take time to get done right but they want everything to be done fast. They don't care how bad PC's are built, they care about how many PC's are sold which is probably why QC simply chooses to ignore problems and the solution is "ship it, we need our numbers, tech support will take care of it". iBUYPOWER has no vision. They claim to be "gaming define" and blast about all the hard work that goes into these builds. They're wrong. Tech Support took care of the mistakes ignored. As techs we wanted to make sure the customer had something that was working but again upper management only cared about how many systems were repair, even if it meant doing a mediocre repair yet they also expected excellent customer service when customers called in. Supervisors in other departments don't care about anything else other than getting paid, they hardly contribute to anything. iBUYPOWER could be so much more. People see them as a good gaming company when they hosts event but the sad reality is they don't care about their customers, they don't care about their employees and they have absolutely no leadership. The few people who try their best to make the company great get thrown under the bus constantly, get heat from upper management and in the end are set up to eventually fail.

There is a lack of proper CRM system training. The employee benefits are below industry standards (e.g., paid time off is granted only after one year of service). The office environment feels impersonal and unsupportive.

Pay is low for most people, forget room for advancement, 10 min walk from JacMar to onsite job rain or shine, dirty restrooms with toilet paper everywhere on the ground, old building, a lot of backed up work, having to help other peoples position due to mess, takes 1 year before you maybe get parking and 1 year before 401k, hard to get raises, company sales decreasing annually.

10 minute walk for all new guys for 1 year plus, all mens restrooms are dirty with toilet paper everywhere, low bonus, dirty warehouse.

Low pay, benefits are not as great

There was absolutely no growth. I would not take any jobs here unless this is your first official job after graduation college and UNLESS you are 100% okay with being paid $15-16 an hour for a good year or so, with minimal opportunities for raises. This was very much a “passion” job rather than a job you take to make money. If you’re looking to make money and make a living, don’t come here.

Poor parking (offsite parking), they play favorites if you speak Mandarin, poor management. Management acts like they care, but they don't take any actions. High volume of workload and plenty of overtime will be required. You'll also be scolded for doing overtime because they'll think you're not working fast enough.