A very painful place to work. - Customer Service Representative Build.com Employee Review

2.0
27 May 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The pay rate is ok They have free coffee in the break rooms. The other sales reps are in the same boat of debacle as you so you make good friends

Cons

They change your schedule whenever they like They don't have the inventory they claim on their site so you are dealing with a lot of angry customers The Freight companies they use delivery a lot of the items broken The Shipping companies they use forget to put handles in with the faucets so they deliver a lot of missing items with missing parts and you are the rep that takes the brunt of the customer's frustration. A lot of their items are backordered on the site making for long shipping delays. They change the goal structure from 50,000 per month to 60,000 month and will fire you if you don't hit it It is harder to hit the sales goal in post sales because in post sales calls you are dealing with very complex customer service issues that take a lot of time so it is hard to sell something when people aren't buying, but want you take care of their problems instead. You have to answer around 10 Sales requests via email a day as well as take a lot a calls a day and also try to follow up on your sales leads. You have to work through lunch at times, or during your break to keep up. When you do make sales they take a lot of them away or split them because another rep can say they were working with that person by showing you an emailed shopping cart. You also lose sales to people who own pros, or they don't transfer the sales call to you even though the clients asks for you specifically. They claim they will promote you to pre sales if your numbers are good, but really they are just dangling the carrot to hold out hope that one day you might get a better position if you bust. They listen in on your sales calls, telling you how to do your job, pressing you to sell more constantly.

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5.0
18 Nov 2024
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Pros

The most transparent and supportive company I've ever worked for. Generous with bonuses and raises. Management will support your growth within the company and paint you a path to get where you want to go

Cons

There isn't a single con that I experienced except for how I was let go. Recent raises, praises, never took a day off and even corporate recognition only a few weeks before my firing.

3.0
6 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My manager is excellent. She promote work life balance and the inclusiveness of the team. She understands that life happens and something’s are beyond our control. She encourages honest opinions and frustrations to be shared so she can do what she can to help with that. The pay is decent but does not equal the amount of work on a daily between excessive emails and 40 plus calls a day. Working remote is a plus as a single mother with very little help it allows me to get my kids on and off the bus and take them to appointments as needed. There is a lot of internal support in the form of share point.

Cons

Now to the bad. There seems to be very little upward mobility for long time employees. There are a lot of recent changes occurring with the merging of Ferguson and not all of it is good. The showroom employees are not on the same page as we are on how certain returns work and that causes a lot of confusion and discord with the customers which those of us on the phones have to deal with. There is plenty of lateral movement but that would require having to go to a whole new manager and start over learning their way of doing things. The same expectations are not across the board in all departments as far as responding in a timely manor to direct messages or even responding at all. CE is the low man on the totem pole and made to feel that way with the daily operations and not given the same respect as others in the company. The shift bid process is arcane and should be based off of seniority not KPI. All of the calls do not require “qualifying”. We have to deal with a lot of rude entitled customers when telling them no to something just to pass them over to OOTP and they get their way anyway 9 out of 10 times. And most importantly they changed over the phone system and Genesys is awful. Multiple dropped calls daily and zero visibility for our daily adherence to make sure we are on track to stay within our 85% required schedule. I am very good at my job I used to enjoy being able to fix the complex issues I come in contact with daily and now it follows me to bed worrying what’s coming next.

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