Not worth the pay - Tech Support WP Engine Employee Review

2.0
Jun 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Its a paycheck . .

Cons

Unable to take PTO in a timely fashion - be prepared to need at least 4 months lead time and thats if your lucky Insuffficient Staffing Insufficient 'slots' per day for PTO considering the number of people working Claims to care about mental health - doesn't cover therapists on health plan Pay is LOW for the expected work - a t1 is doing what an intermediate person would be doing

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WP Engine Response
2y
Hello and thank you for taking the time out of your day to leave feedback on your experience at WP Engine. We're very concerned to hear your experience has been less than satisfactory, especially in regards to work/life balance and compensation. We do try our best to make as many spots available for PTO as possible while also maintaining appropriate levels of staffing. We have adjusted our hiring over the previous months to ensure our shifts are appropriately staffed while still allowing employees time off. In regards to therapy, it is covered under our health insurance offering. The co-cost is dependent on plan but as long as you see an in-network therapist there is coverage available. We also encourage all employees to take a look at our robust Employee Assistance Program, which provides a wealth of resources and support. If you'd like to learn more about our EAP please feel free to reach out to your EE Business Partner or someone on our Total Rewards Team. WP Engine's compensation philosophy is to pay competitive to market based on cost of talent vs cost of living. We utilize salary surveys to review our salary ranges on an annual basis and then conduct an annual salary planning review for merit-based increases. If you're comfortable doing so, we'd encourage you to reach out to your EE Business Partner or anybody on our Employee Experience Team, as we would like to learn more and do our best to address these concerns. We appreciate you taking the time to share and hope that we can discuss this further as this is not the experience we want anybody at WP Engine to have.

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Pros

Lots of support from management. I always felt like I was heard. Plenty of support from my teammates. The CEO is an amazing person.

Cons

Customers only reach out because there are issues with their sites; causing them to be upset most of the time. Tough job if you are not used to remote work.

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WP Engine Response
5mo
We appreciate you taking the time to share such a thoughtful review. While we're glad you had an overall positive experience in regards to feeling supported by your manager, teammates, and feel Heather, our CEO is an amazing person. We agree! We are sorry to hear you didn't feel like there were opportunities for promotions. We know you no longer work here at WP Engine, but if you have any other thoughts you'd like to share so that we can learn more about what could've gone better, you're welcome to reach out to anybody on our Employee Experience Team to do so. Thank you again and we wish you the best in future endeavors.
1.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

Remote. Great people. Decent benefits. Nice work/life balance.

Cons

Subpar pay. Lack of career growth and stability. Upper management and leadership are heavily disconnected from the core product. They want to "AI" their core platform just because everybody else is doing it but they have no clear direction / solution that makes sense. They sign contracts for services that they don't vet fully and cause headaches for tech support. They mask "reorgs" with surprise layoffs.

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WP Engine Response
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We appreciate your candid feedback, and the time you took to leave a review. We're glad to hear you had a positive experience with colleagues, our remote-first culture, work-life balance, and benefits. Those are all important parts of the employee experience, and we're pleased they stood out. We're also appreciate your view on where you feel we fell short. Feedback about compensation, career growth, leadership connection, and organizational change are meaningful, even when they're difficult to hear. While we can't comment on specific business decisions, we appreciate your perspective. Thank you again for telling us about your experience at WP Engine.
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