Go Daddy Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

Pros

Intelligent people with a passion for technology and everything domain and hosting related. Growth of the company is leading towards bigger and better things in the future.

Cons

Management is good but seems to be struggling with the growth of the company and the amount of projects they currently have in progress.

Pros

health care, paid time off, $2 lunches, holiday party

Cons

depending on what group you work in, a person can really get screwed based on how much of an idiot your supervisor is. small teams means your usually on call all time time as a primary or a backup.

Advice to Senior Management

you try so hard to make sure your voted one of the best companies to work for, however you keep cutting all the things that got you there.

Pros

The best part about this company is the almost every little step you take to do your job better is rewarded. The Sales and management team have put an extraordinary amount of time into devising a system that rewards you for positive action. At my last job I found (also a call center) i found that my taskings were increased on a monthly/bimonthly basis, and that my pay was actually being decreased!!!

 Any job is hard if you do it to the employer requested standard, and all companies will steadily raise the bar to increase your performance. However, not all companies compensate you when they raise that bar. The money makes it worth while.

Cons

The only negative aspect is the strict company policies. These are fairly unbending unless you have a valid reason (including evidence) of extenuating circumstances. However, the fact that i get compensated fairly probably has alot to do with the fact that this company will remove undesirable employees like a malignant tumor if it finds you to be lacking in a substantial work or personal ethic. At the end of the day, do your job and you'll do just fine.

Advice to Senior Management

create a system to award inbound employees for sales to executive account customers. Our only motivation to actively consult with these customers is because we want to keep our job. The current policy for addressing these customers works, but it could be so much better.

Pros

They are very flexible on the corporate side with work hours and sick time that you need to take. Benefits are good. Get a lot of vacation time which is great

Cons

Career advancement is difficult if your career path is going towards a position that you have no experience in. Most positions now require 5+ years of experience where in the past they would hire an employee with the skills to do the work and mold them. Now they have a jr development program with a few intern like positions for career advancement but there are only a few for all of the employees to fight over.

Advice to Senior Management

Make career advancement less difficult. Have more jr positions where previous experience doesn't need to be 5+ years.

Pros

Pay is decent, benefits are good. Most of the new technologies are used.

Cons

Executives and most middle management - they are nepotistic and incompetent. Absurd deadlines. Bad ideas get approved, good ideas get ignored.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire yourselves.

Pros

Good company, obviously big so pays you on time. Team-based work so there is healthy sales competition. They teach you a lot of stuff. Has high potential for sales but quotas are kinda unfair, given that about half of what you sell is kind of unnecessary. (10 year domain registrations...etc.)

Cons

Pretty unfair promotion tactics. You pretty much either have to be a very pretty female (rare in tech industries) or work there for a ridiculously long time just to get to the middle-management arena. Your bonus gets taken away from you if you don't meet quota. Unrealistic sales expectations.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont' treat your reps like goons; we are smarter than you realize and possibly smarter than you. Treat us fairly and respectfully and we will work hard for you.

Pros

Medical benefits were very good

Cons

Employee's as a whole are very dissatisfied with their working conditions and management. Morale is low.

Advice to Senior Management

In the phoenix area most people who have been in the tech industry for more than a couple of years have either worked for godaddy, or have coworkers who have worked there, and know to stay away.

Pros

Tons of vacation time, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays, lenient attendance policy, subsidized meals, approachable management, advancement opportunities everywhere (they love to promote from within).

Cons

Serving Go Daddy's customers can be brutally tedious and repetitive. Something like Google's 20% program or spending a portion of your time training with other departments would help break up the monotony.

Advice to Senior Management

Something like Google's 20% program or spending a portion of your time training with other departments would help break up the monotony. Send your AHS supervisors through a course on how manage people without unnecessarily micromanaging/being a complete condescending prick and thus creating a miserable work environment.

Pros

the company has a good reputation in the outside world, but as I found out, it is due to agressive PR and marketing tactics

Cons

it seems to be a very "clicky" place to work. if employes are observed being friendly with the "outcasts", management attitudes changed permanently and the employee is treated as an "outcast" from that day forward. this was not an isolated incident, it happened across the board.

Advice to Senior Management

more objectivity is needed, it's not who you know or who you brown nose, it's the skills that matter. improve management training, most managers do not know how to manage the people side of things. improve hiring practices! the recruiting "department" is a joke - more focus is given to filling the shifts rather than the quality of new hires. the all-knowing test that is given to all prospective employees is basically an IQ test, NOT a predictor of employment success or of a good fit within the organization.

Pros

Great benefits: health insurance, time off, company party, subsidized lunches/meals.

Cons

Unrefined paths for employee growth, development and career-pathing. Over-emphasis on rewarding and recognizing sales over other performance metrics.

Advice to Senior Management

The firedrill and get-it-done atmosphere and mentality will only take you so far. Creating AND communicating a clear, cohesive vision that ties all segments of the company together is needed.