A Difficult Place to Thrive - Tier III Support Specialist Lightspeed Employee Review

2.0
27 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Flexible paid time off - Health insurance - $400 credit a year for wellness - Modern Health app - LinkedIn Learning - They provide a Mac laptop to work from

Cons

- Leadership will receive our feedback and do nothing about it - Since the three rounds of redundancies, a lot of the workload has come to our team, the workload has tripled over a year - Compensation is horrendously low for this role considering the amount of workload and how stretched you are on different projects - The management and Leadership teams do not have training on how to handle different types of people, their stress is often taken out on their team verbally - Favouritism - Constant changes to the job role (for a very long time we did not have a job spec, it has not been updated to show all the additional jobs we do) - No clear progression after this role (because we are too broad and lack depth in our experience, it's quite difficult to move into a different type of role within Lightspeed. There is no further type of support that we could move into) - There is a serious lack of job opportunities for Support, the Tier II team has been waiting for a year and maybe more with no sight of a promotion. Some have left the business because of this. - Underqualified people are hired for the support roles, which results in more workload for the other support teams

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Lightspeed Response
1y
Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a review. It’s great to hear your feedback regarding our benefits, the people and the managers you’ve had. We are sorry to hear about your experience around leadership. We always encourage reviewers to reach out on our confidential email, people@lightspeedhq.com, however here you’ve given detailed feedback already. Please know that management reads each review and considers the advice given. Thanks again for your review and it goes without saying we wish you all the best with your next career step.

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Lightspeed Response
5mo
Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a review. It’s good to hear that you valued the unlimited PTO however, we’re concerned by the other feedback you’ve shared. We take this feedback seriously and use it to inform ongoing improvements. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
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