Great Trainers marred by Horrible ICOMS from the early 90s - Account Services/Customer Service Representative Cox Communications Employee Review

2.0
Jun 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The friendly and thorough trainer did their best to explain things and answer questions.

Cons

Unfortunately, the training doesn't explain ICOMS (the primary app you use on the floor) very well and that's not due to a lack of trying on the trainers part. The Icoms application is a no exaggeration NIGHTMARE. It's all codes and abbreviations and a very very poorly designed interface. it makes everything a LONG process and is plagued with errors and crashes. The application doesn't even natively run in windows it's running in a virtual box of sorts. doesn't have scroll bars have to click on arrows through large lists while only displaying 4-5 items at a time. when putting in the date for orders you have to always fix the date or it errors you have to input dates like this 52521 instead of the natural way of 5/25/21. EVERYTHING IS CODES and inconsistent ABBREVIATIONS . and I mean EVERYTHING is like this. I am very tech-savvy and owned my own computer business for a while, So if I say it's horribly designed and only makes the job a nightmare I'm, not exaggerating. They are supposedly working on a new application but it's 30 years too late. Sadly even the trainer had issues with the program we were being trained to use and that's, not a good sign.

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Cox Communications Response
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Hi, thank you for sharing a review! We're glad to know that you enjoy the flexibility, work-life balance and employee benefits that a career at Cox offers, and that you would recommend Cox as an employer. Cox's footprint and cross-industry impact do frequently necessitate agility with change, but we strive to offer a workplace experience that has the stability of a large company with the friendly community and innovation culture of a startup. And while our impact continues to grow, our values and mission remain the same: across our family of businesses, we're building a better future. We hope you feel that to be the case.
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Learned alot with 20+ years with the company, fun place to work, meet great people, Awesome pay.

Cons

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