Pitney Bowes reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,826 total reviews)
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Kurt Wolf

63% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Pitney Bowes has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,826 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pitney Bowes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
May 18, 2017

Client Account Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, good vacation and holidays off, match 401k, good schedule (M-F with start times ranging from 5:30am to 7am), daily and weekly spiffs, mostly fun people to work with. I have a great team lead which makes it enjoyable.

Cons

Favoritism, worst I've ever seen, not so much by team leads but by the sales directors. Their friends and their favorites are set up to kill their goals while the rest of the employees scrape the bottom of the barrels to hit an astronomical goal every month. Horrible threatening emails to hit goal every day, very unmotivating. If you aren't a favorite, you are required to call clients with a ton of time left on their accounts and renew, it's embarrasing. Managers only care about numbers for the shareholders, only metric that counts anymore is how long we are on a call and how many calls we make. If there is a spiff and we don't hit our call metrics, we don't get paid. Get used to telling clients you're happy to hold. Outdated technology priced way too high with zero incentive to stay with Pitney Bowes. Newer shipping technology but much too pricey for mid to low market clients, there is no ROI. Changed the sales platform last year, really messed up everything in the customer service dept. Clients bills got messed up horribly and they took away all resources to help. Hold times for clients was and still is well over 30 min for billing which we as account managers get yelled at for. No source to get any help or change anything for a client. Most calls go iver seas and its horrible. Pitney is trying to direct clients to use their online accounts but website doesn't work all the time. If a client calls in with and issue, we create a case and are told to tell clients it can take up to 45 days. Vacation time is good but only if you can get it approved, last week of every month is blacked out and the entire month of Dec, usually only tues-weds avail. If you have a last min appt, not much flexibility, you have to use UA which cuts into time if you are actually sick.

1.0
May 13, 2017

Production Supervisor

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There was a time where all you had to do to advance in the company was show up to work, and do your job because they were so used to employees who could care less. Pitney Bowes is a big company so you could transfer to other areas if you moved, or if a better position opened in a different area you could apply and transfer if you got the job.

Cons

There is way too many people involved with decision making . Supervisors are nothing but leads having to answer to assistant ops managers, then ops manager . Every shift has an assistant ops manager or two calling the shots. They have no faith in properly training their staff they have in Milwaukee, instead they call out to other facilities in the same region bring in employees with no experience and because the regional director likes them they end up managing the shift here in Milwaukee. No regard for their employees lives at all, when they wait until one hour before end of shift on Saturday to tell you that your working Sunday mandatory not caring if you have plans with your family or not. There is no HR in the building so basically once an employee gets hired through the company its almost impossible to fire them that is unless they are a supervisor.

2.0
May 9, 2017

Better off looking elsewhere

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive 401(k) -- for salaried employees only; matching is much weaker for hourly employees

Cons

Executive staff are completely out of touch with employees. Pay is embarrassingly low.

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