Doesn't Value Customer Facing Roles - Product Support Specialist Avalara Employee Review

2.0
27 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Managers/Middle Management care a lot but have little power to improve work conditions.

Cons

Never in my life in a customer facing role have I seen a department disregarded and unappreciated in a company. Every department but the Support team got a holiday bonus. The management came together to personally bring their employees something to give a little holiday cheer with their own money. The excessive requests for overtime because the turn over rate causes burn out like no other. There are no incentives to work harder. People who do not perform to expectations are still kept even though their peers work harder but make the same wages. Continued promises of things getting better, but they aren't. There's nothing boosting morale. Everyone knows how stressful and difficult it is and they're all struggling together. I can't believe a company that boasts taking care of their employees is okay with this. Customer facing employees are what represent the company and you choose to treat them poorly. Imagine having every other department staffed so they can participate in company activities while we have to make accommodations just to attend quarterly meetings for one department. There's little growth because you can't do any learning because you're too busy working all the time to do anything else. I was treated better at Amazon.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good org Solid product Good middle mgmt.

Cons

Like every SaaS org direction as a whole is a bit turbulent Needs to figure out how to properly lean into Enterprise

1.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Passionate employees who "remember the good times before Vista" and want to get back to it (they all think this upcoming IPO will fix things, but I have strong doubts and I expect a large layoff to artificially inflate the company's value under the guise of "AI efficiency"). - A strong interest in AI technologies (even if leadership has no idea or expertise on how to effectively implement it, and don't provide employees enough time to implement AI techniques effectively). - Nice facilities - Market product leader

Cons

- Constant, daily new priorities requiring constant reactivity and preventing meaningful work from being done. This tramples the boots on the ground employees - Toxic work culture due to a private equity fixation on bottom-line optimization. Resist, and you'll be fired. Observed many new leaders last less than 6-months, - Constant layoffs and offshoring/outsourcing to Pune, India. No understanding of these strategies, leaving no geographical balance based on needs or strategy - As a result of gutting the People Operations teams, there are no formal job profiles and performance reviews are based on popularity and subjectivity - Overworked and burned out employees across the company - Pushy, angry, and rude cross-team relationships. Many sales and operations leaders model this after executive leadership and think this is the only way to get things done.

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