Stay away from the call center if possible! - Technical Support Lead Armstrong Group Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Supervisors are generally willing to offer help when possible, and try to respond to the needs of all the employees. Competitive wages+benefits, as well as free internet Most coworkers are down to earth and friendly people, although there are a few exceptions.

Cons

Like most call center jobs at bigger companies, you are treated as a number and your stats come first. Workload is very heavy and techs are worked to the bone to meet SLA. Recognition for hard work is sparse and when it is noticed, you are treated with a 'good one' coin, rather than a bonus or raise. Opportunities to advance to areas outside of the call center, such as IT or Network Operations, is almost nonexistent. The company will tend to hire from outside than promote from within. Favoritism is abundant and the typical drama that goes on in the day to day could be likened to being back in high school. There is a very high turnover rate in this particular area of the company, and despite this management is extremely reluctant to hire more people on. On most occasions it took 6 months to a year to replace the 5 or more people who quit during that time. As a result the 'call queue' is nearly always constant because there are not enough techs to answer the phone. Morale in the call center is very low.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Pros

Great people, autonomy to work on projects

Cons

PTO time is too limited I think

3.0
May 1, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The benefits were very good as well as the free services. Company culture was one of the best I’ve ever experienced and many of my former coworkers I now consider to be good friends.

Cons

They underpay you as a way to give you a larger raise every year, when in reality you’re just being given a big raise while being below the average for your payband. And along with that, once you hit your median payband you no longer are given merit based raises, just a flat 3% so there is no incentive to actually go out of your way to do extra work in hopes of getting a big raise, or accounting for inflation. Not to mention during Covid when inflation was the highest I got an amazing whole 2% raise, what a way to recognize your employees for taking on extra work in the height of the pandemic. There was never a moment while I was working here besides year one that I felt I was being compensated appropriately, I left this job for an almost 30% raise at a company 1/5 the size, they have the ability to pay their employees appropriately but they just choose not to.

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