Cox Communications reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(4,282 total reviews)
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74% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Cox Communications has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,282 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cox Communications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Jan 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Best benefits hands down of any company out there. You will not find a better company for freebies, cheap insurance, free cable, and so much more. They even have an in house "save your butt fund" where they will cut you a check to help in the face of an emergency. The employees are like family. so much time off, fairs, travel, free swag, point system catalogue with everything from hair brushes to trips to Ireland. Just an amazing company to work for.

Cons

Company is losing a lot of money from internet only sales, and customers are not always treated best when they order "just internet". its discouraged and not as incentivized. Also, it's a cable company/internet, and customers are annoying to the point that if you work there long enough, no matter how good the benefits and pay is and they are unmatched, you will start to hate your job, and people. Cox customer base, especially in Louisiana are the most difficult, most annoying people to service. maybe I'm petty, but after a while, you just get so sick of the job. Very high turn over, but lots of room for advancement.

1.0
Dec 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really the only good things about this job is one you get free internet for 100 megabytes per second. 2 they got good medical and dental benefits. 3 some of the supervisors depending on where you get are actually pretty good.

Cons

I have a lot of cons for this job the main one is a training is a joke. The way they train you is they tell you a little bit about a system to which when you finally get on the sales floor not only as a system out of date but most of what they teach you you will never use. 2 when they hired me as technical support I thought I will be helping customers with technical issues but the main focus seems to be on sales way too often. I'm like this if I'm supposed to be technical support why is my focus way too much on sales which with you being technical support you can still get fired for not meeting sales goals even though you are technical support. Another big problem with the issue is the fact that they do not care about their customers They want you to use what's called Solution Center which when we were forced to use it doesn't even work. Basically they're using live sales floor Associates as guinea pig for Solution Center because some idiot high up came up with the idea because most of the people they hire don't know anything about technical. And on top of that was so funny is that extending them testing it fully and completely before rolling it out there using us to test it to itch when it actually is a good feature on Solution Center they end up getting rid of it. Also as well another big problem with this company is that they don't care about hiring people who know technical stuff they want you to just use to loosen Center and that's it. I actually got in trouble for actually helping a customer solve an issue because I'm a background when it comes to this type of stuff and they. They also told me don't be too technical because then they're going to expect all of our employees to be the same way. I might this if we're technical support should customers expect that out of us? There are a lot of Maurice's I can go on to the reason why this company is not worth working for but the push straight when you are hired you are lied to when you finally get on the floor then they try to make you sign a document saying that you agreed to be hired on these conditions with you never was nor did you never agreed to it's not technical support, it is customer support that's all it is is not technical is customer support that's all it is that's all they care about!

2.0
Sep 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

decent pay for a call center

Cons

disparaging differences how different departments are treated due to revenue saving vs tech support. each department do their part for the customer and the company and should be treated equally as such. customers are borderline verbally abusive and it's globally acceptable regardless of who answers the phone and when explaining to management why the phone call went poorly the agent is told to put away the excuses and be accountable. that environment is a ruination of good people and top notch employees.

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