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Hotwire Communications

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A brutal place to work. - Customer Service Representative Hotwire Communications Employee Review

1.0
Dec 20, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Laid back for the most part. - Friday and weekends is dress down day. - Decent pay for amount of work you put in compared to other call centers. - Employees were fun to work with while I was there. Everyone has the same mindset about the company. - When there is a rare slow day when calls are minimal, you don't really have any other duties.

Cons

- Lack of resources - Lack of 2nd level technical support. - Lack of management support. - Close to zero opportunity to be promoted or move up in the company (though they say otherwise in the interviews.) - Company policy is: No raises. - Company is not organized at all - constantly changing how things are done. - Departments do not work well together. Billing and Network departments treat Customer Service like they are a waste of time. - Dispatch department is a joke. Never heard of so many missed appointments or complaints about technicians in my life. Techs never show up and dispatch agents cover for them. - Took away our water cooler because they refused to pay for water. We complained enough so that they put a filter on the sink in the office.. The WORST thing is - Customer Complaints If you want to work here, be ready to get constantly abused by customers over the faults of other departments with almost no support from your supervisors - whether you are in Customer Support or Technical Support. I'm sure it's like this in every Customer Service position, but these customers are mostly high-end and already think they are better than you before calling in to complain.

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2.0
Feb 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lot's of training and my manager at the time really cared about what we were doing and how we could best assist our customers

Cons

Teams were very segregated, even within your own team it would feel like pulling teeth if you asked in chat for help with something. I would sometime go against what a "supervisor" said we should do as it just did not sit right with me. Example : Senior citizen customer who had limited mobility was moving out of service area (her kids were moving her closer to take care of her) but she could not physically walk around the house to collect/disconnect hardware that belonged to Hotwire. My manager was on time away, and another manager wanted me to tell her if she doesnt she would face up to $300-500 in Unreturned Equipment Fees and that there was nothing else we could do. I was not happy with that at all, I was able to reach out to the on site manager for that community and they were more than happy to stop by that customers house and help collect things. The poor lady was in tears for how we were able to help.

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