Vivint reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(3,359 total reviews)
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Larry Coben

77% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Vivint has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,359 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vivint employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Nov 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Meal tickets to places around town Free soda machine at work VTO PTO

Cons

I am probably going to sound like an entitled person, but the whole company seems very robotic and they make you feel completely replaceable. If you dont conform exactly to their structure you are fired. They hire anyone with a pulse and dont care if you can actually help take care of the customer. Every minute of your day is logged. You have to be logged in and ready to take calls as soon as your shift starts. Call length is recorded if you take too long to actually help out customers then you will get written up. Every form of help you can provide is tracked and actual customer service is not valued. There is no waiving of cancellation fees unless you are bankrupt. Cancel fees can be as high as $5,000 for a customer. If money is why they are cancelling there is a culture of you selling them more equipment and pushing a "better deal" that just signs the customer up for a longer contract. You only get 15 minutes off the phone for personal time. If you are one minute late you start accumulating points. I had a friend work there and he broke his foot and was a minute late multiple times due to his broken foot and managment was not understanding. I had work approved to be off weeks in advance for one day and the manager didnt put it in the software so it showed I had to work that day. It marked me as a no call no show for a day that my manager and I knew that we had requested off and I had found someone to cover it. I still got written up.

3.0
Sep 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Competitive pay - Work in modern tech stack using Go / gRPC / microservices / kubernetes - Flexible work schedule - Good balance between work / life - They do a good job at providing events outside of work

Cons

- Your longevity in the company is based by luck, not your experience, or how long you have been with the company, how much you know about their platform. - Many projects are formed and later shut down resulting in those teams being let go and then a few months later they are opening up new reqs rather than moving those engineers to new teams - this is why it is not long term, if you not part of the core products - cameras, panel, core application, dev-ops. You may not have a job down the road. I think I have seen 5 projects close at this point. - Company is too hyper-focused on diversity related issues and representing the minority rather than finding qualified individuals. We have some people in positions that are completely unqualified as a result of this. - I would say that Vivint is overall "liberal" in their views and and the unspoken rule is if you don't share those same opinions, you should keep them to yourself. - There are some in management positions who have so much time on their hand that in order to appear busy / relevant make up issues such as banning words like master/slave/whitelist/blacklist for fear of offending someone so then immediately all code has to be replaced with new words to deal with a few people who apparently have nothing better to do but nick pick. - Vivint says there is a "career ladder" and will show you it on a document. I have seen this document for 18 months now and it has still yet to be implemented.

1.0
Jan 3, 2019

Sweatshop

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

flexibility to work from home

Cons

Poor management, terrible training, garbage product. Customers hate the product, and hate those they call in to. Less pay for work from home employees.

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