Didn - Call Center Lead 8x8 Employee Review

1.0
Jun 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

None. Great game being pitched according to 8 X 8, yet they have no market share outside of simple VoIP. Vonage and OOMA will crush them along with freebies like Facetime and Skype.

Cons

Live in a microcosm where the company has already succeeded when it hasn't. Company sells commodity product. Trying to move into Call Center. A culture that can't see talent after 50 hours of interviews, celebration EVERYWHERE about how LONG someone has been on board, not what they actually have done. Steer clear, this like so many others in industry, are melting down. This company reminds me of the mosquito swimming on his back with an erection screaming "Raise the drawbrdge! Raise the drawbirdge!" They are only now acquiring the products to make a call center work. It'll be a year to 18 months before it does, and then I'll go work for whoever made it work, it absolutely most certainly isn't any SE manager, his boss, the product managers. Ask them how VoIP works, they'll know along with ten million other people. Ask them if they can build a 5,000 agent call center in two locations and your going to end up with doodie all over your hands.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

*Good health insurance *Company "mental health" days off *Work/life balance *LinkedIn learning

Cons

*You will have to chase several people through several teams before you actually obtain the assistance you are looking for, however once you get to the right team/person, be prepared to be talked to like you're an annoyance rather than a colleague. A lot of "pass the buck" type of mentality, and "that's not our responsibility" attitude, then discover the people/person you're looking for doesn't work there anymore. *They reduce staff under the guise of "redundancies of the role", when they're really moving the exact role to Philippines or other countries as they can obtain more employees for that same paycheck. *Will hire new staff, have you train them, then reduce the positions within that team after you've trained them. *Upper management will promote not based on merit but nepotism, and it's not a secret but up in your face, and will tell you "its not personal". *They will shove the "we care about our people" culture down your throat, when in fact they DO NOT care about their people, especially the knowledgeable ones, they will eliminate those as soon as possible to get fresh blood in, with no knowledge or expertise, and often in other countries so they can pay them less than here. Truth. *Management is top heavy, always has been, no change in sight for this down the road.

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