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BigCommerce

Now known as Commerce

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BigCommerce reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(479 total reviews)
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Travis Hess

46% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

BigCommerce has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 479 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BigCommerce 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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479 reviews
5.0
Jan 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best work culture I have ever experienced. Great teams and the cross department communication is also good. Salary great, benefits good need some "up"-dating. Working hours also normal, no crazy overtime.

Cons

US company - $ and share price is everything. Top management struggles a bit with EMEA. As so many US companies hit Europe - first the UK and after that the continent and are surprised that the model does no longer work 1:1 :)

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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback! We appreciate your input. If you have any further feedback to share, please email us at ta@bigcommerce.com.
1.0
Jul 29, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good place to start working as a first job. - They do provide you with all the equipment and train you in MOST of the things. - Teammates are awesome, and they love to joke around, they have a group for basically anything (from music production, anime to gaming or food) - Pay is OK, at least for a Mexican standard. The benefits are okay too. - 7 days of sick time, unlimited PTO (which they masked as "them being nice to you" by the way!) - If a customer starts behaving like a child and yells or insults you, you are 100% allowed to end the call or chat.

Cons

- They keep adding new features to the platform, and MOST OF THE TIME you end up finding about them due to customers asking questions. Meaning that you have no idea what they are talking about. In short: they push updates without notification to support staff. - You get trained on how3 to troubleshoot SOME things, but they leave MANY and I mean MANY features out of the training sessions, you end up finding about those features by yourself with a customer on the line. - The workload is REALLY heavy. When you are not handling phones or in a chat (which, by the way, can be 2 chats at the same time) you are answering emails. - They are heavily understaffed for T1 support. With 7 phone agents at the time and a queue of over 10 customers. Yes, this includes peak seasons. WFM has a terrible hand with schedules. - They hire 3 new agents and fire 5. - Asking for advice from management most of the time ends up confused and managers sending you an internal KB link or regurgitating the same information you already know. - THERE IS A LOT OF FAVORITISM. If you have good ties with management, you'll get promoted in no time. - They are unaware of many laws in Mexico, as they are pretty new. Don't expect your paycheck to arrive on time and don't expect any real answer, as they love to lie about that! - A customer has an issue where they can't log in and a tier 2 or manager is unable to get them to log in? Well, you are on your own! If any attempt fails, there are no further instructions on what to do. Yes, that leaves room for a lot of frustration from both the customer and you. - Ninjas have no word on anything. Feedback is not taken from support staff. They give preference to project managers, even when support receives many complaints from customers.

1.0
Jan 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun team. Partner Ecosystem and events. WFH.

Cons

Low pay compared to other tech companies. Favouritism from leadership team. Micromanagers and low EQ from management. For the majority there is no room for growth. Layoffs plus other things make me believe the company is worse off than they are portraying.

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