Dehumansing / Bad metric usage - L2 Support Engineer Crossover for Work Employee Review

1.0
30 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-They pay on time, like a clock. -The salary is clear;y advertised, no non-sense negotiation.

Cons

-Management treats people like machines, they removed our slack access to avoid us socialising... Without realizing that the slack forum was were we found the answers to many of the issues, as the support documentation sucks. -Management does not apply what it preaches... To enter we were asked to do some cognitive skills, 50 questions in 15 minutes. I am one of the top scores during my tenure (48 of 50), and nearly none of our management team would be able to pass such test with such scores (Mr. Witt formerly of Amazon would be a perfect example). -No true scoring process: I was rejected for an L2 position when I applied directly, I got hired as an L1, 2 months later I applied for the same L2 position internally, and passed with flying colours... What changed? Nothing, the system reused my previous scores and results and I passed, but now I would be doing L2 labour with L1 payment, for a quarter as a "test", no retroactive payment for those 3 months. This utter nonsense made me and many others that rose through the ranks leave the company ASAP. -Inconsistent metrics. The company applies new measurements often, which is be valid to improve, but they application is retroactive... I knew some team members fired for "non implemented metrics", essentially let go for a metric they could have not been aware. -Inconsistent hiring peaks. When I was L1, we got many many L1 arriving each week, far beyond the needed amount personnel... They main problem is that you are measured on productivity, 40 tickets per week as L1, if you have 30 people per shift fighting for the tickets no one will reach their goal.

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Crossover for Work Response
4y
It sounds like you may be speaking of one of the clients we hire on behalf of, rather than Crossover directly. Please know this is not the usual experience while working with us at Crossover. If you're comfortable, please send more information to humanresources@crossover.com so we can look more closely into this.

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Where do I start? I tried to be objective with my 2-star rating; Crossover isn't unethical or stealing from their employees or anything like that. However, for a seasoned professional, be warned... I joined in one of the Very High Dollar executive-level positions being driven by their desire to acquire 50+ companies in the near term. I'm in the US. As such (and I knew this going in), the tax consequences for being a contractor are non-trivial. There's also the consideration that you must fund any perks yourself - healthcare, retirement, etc. While the salary is generous enough to do that, it's not as shiny as it seems on the surface. Your mileage may vary depending upon your home country. What I really disliked: Constant tracking/ justification of work stream. Seriously. As others have pointed out, it's difficult to actually *get* credit for a full work week without working extra. Especially in some of the higher-level, more 'creative' positions such as architect, product management, etc. there's minimal or no opportunity to review or think over things. For me, I work in bursts followed by small distractions in which I'm running the problems in the background of my thoughts. A variety of coworkers and management in my history have almost universally commented about the volume of good work I produce. Even my peers at Crossover had no problem with the quantity or quality of my production. However, their tracking software and systems simply don't credit anything other than linear, constant "work". This was bad for me, resulting in me working extra, reworking things as I attempting to change my processes, "faking" it, or simply working longer to attempt to make my hours. I also felt bad for some of the more junior or "factory" positions. It really is tracked by the minute, with lots of incentive to find "problems" with productivity. This is really a thinly-veiled method of wringing blood out of a turnip, by finding flaws or gaps and essentially docking pay. Yeah, the salaries are good but the amount of ancillary work that goes into making "real" hours is awful, and I felt like a chump contributing to it. I had to quit for my sanity.

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Crossover for Work Response
7y
We appreciate your review. Our wages are paid in USD, so it's not going to be as competitive in high tech markets like San Francisco or Boston in the United States where software development is ultra-competitive. However, wages for the same jobs are very competitive in other US cities and outside the US. Sometimes these wages can be 5-6x the local average. Our business model is unique and isn't for everyone. We aren't trying to be like everyone else. The future of work is being redefined. We pride ourselves in being a pioneer in this new paradigm. If you want to know more about this work model, you can read about it here: https://medium.com/@crossoverforwork/the-factory-model-enabling-massive-scale-across-business-functions-98b18ad574f8
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