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- "The managers have also out sourced a lot of their work to tendered advocates so they don't provide any support for calls or take escalations." (in 23 reviews)
- "Upper management seems lovely and savvy but are tone deaf to the struggles (or just don’t care) and continue to make the role harder." (in 8 reviews)
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Reviews about "growing pains"
Return to all Reviews- 3.0Feb 19, 2018Customer SupportFormer Employee, more than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
- Friendly, intelligent, and diligent colleagues - Free food
Cons
- No growth in support. There's very little opportunity to advance into a career outside of the support environment. typically, support is a stepping stone towards other career paths, but there's little to no room for mobility aside from being a support manager or resolution specialist (tackling escalated cases). - Difficult to support other products of Square when they don't have a customer facing team/direct transfer for incoming calls. I.e. Employee Management, Capital, Cash. Supporters are expected to have knowledge of multiple product areas so it does get difficult when there's new features/bugs in the platform/product requests/etc. since there's no clear escalation path in place - The nature of support is 24/7. You are meant to serve the customers and with that in mind, expect to work holidays. When other employees get a week in between Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, you're more than likely working. Though you get to work from home, it's unfortunate having to be locked up in a room taking calls while the rest of your family enjoys the holiday. - Growing pains = culture is difficult to maintain with rapid growth - Little diversity in the certain product areas and it does get cliquey.
5 - 4.0Aug 8, 2016Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
My coworkers are great. I really enjoy working with my team and we get along very well. Both my manager & his manager were previous engineering leads that worked up to senior positions, which I really like.
Cons
Documentation is not the best and there's a lot of 'tribal knowledge'. Some growing pains due to recent expansions, ie. a lot of tools that worked while we were smaller aren't working so well now (work in progress to build new ones though).