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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
3.0
Mar 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great tech - Differentiated strategy - Great press

Cons

- Poor management (unable to lead people) - Burnout culture - Pay is not competitive - Lack of diversity

4.0
Mar 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

BigCommerce pays its customer service employees well, offers good benefits and treats them with respect. It is honestly an excellent company to work for. Coworkers seem nice and are very supportive of new employees who need help while working from home.

Cons

Despite the job posting's requirements, this job does not require any technical knowledge, much less knowledge of coding, data structures, or web applications. Job postings are misleading since this is purely a customer service role that is mostly explaining to merchants how to change settings, handling angry customer complaints, and changes to subscription plans. Increase communicate between engineering and customer success. Allow customer support reps to submit feature requests to engineering as the feature request section of the BC community is very disorganized and customers often cannot articulate technical information as well as the reps. Most callers are calling about issues with third party integrations and have to be turned away. BC needs to require third party integrations to include working documentation in their apps on the big commerce store as many apps lack updated links to documentation. Customers often have to sit on the phone for long periods of time waiting for support reps to find answers to issues. Allow reps to do farther research and problem solving off the calls and to make out-bound calls/emails to merchants once a solution has been found. The recent changes to the web queue have helped with is however as reps can now be productive between calls. Opportunities for advancement do not lead to more technical roles nor to entry to the engineering department. Tier 2 support does the same stuff as tier 1, they are only there to assist new tier 1 reps learn and correct tier 1's oversights and mistakes. The responsibilities of product support engineers can be expanded and more should be hired.

5.0
Mar 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really great mix of corporate but also small enough to feel personalized and like there's plenty of room for growth

Cons

The company has grown so fast that you can see some cracks in the system but leadership is aware and working to fix it

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