Customer support department - brink of collapse - Customer Support Trace One Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

ideal job as a first time office job with the intentions of moving on within a year. opportunities to move departments to gain new skills. opportunities to go abroad to visit customers.

Cons

The customer support team are Ill-equipped to deal with customers issues due to poor or total lack of training. management and directors have no idea how to help the customer support team to achieve the targets that they themselves set. The department is unable to cover support hours agreed in customer contracts due to being understaffed. The management/Directors attitude towards this is "hopefully they'll just stop" ringing' The company will say or do anything in order to get a customer contract signed without consulting any other departments of the business to ensure what they have promised is actually deliverable. Pay gaps between employees are huge even when they are doing the same job. The customer support department for UK is literately being held together by 2 people currently.

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Pros

Pay structure was acceptable for me

Cons

Human resources could be fickle at times

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Trace One Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback! We’re glad to hear that you found the pay structure acceptable. Regarding your comment on HR, we strive to provide consistent and supportive experiences for all employees. If you encountered challenges, we’d appreciate the opportunity to learn more and improve. Please feel free to share any specific concerns with us directly. Your insights help us grow and enhance our processes.
2.0
May 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work/life balance, some friendly colleagues, decent amount of autonomy depending on which team you're on, little to no accountability

Cons

Incompetent leadership actively making decisions that hurt the business, an extremely outdated product and high customer churn. PE owned with little profit left to extract coupled with unrealistic goals based on minimal budget. Serious lack of HR support (especially in US) for everything from benefits to tax requirements, no real career path or advancement opportunities (even promotions come with less than 5% or no raise), obsession with hierarchy, painfully slow and inefficient internal processes, lots of dead weight because it's very difficult to fire people in Europe. This company is a joke. RUN don't walk away from them.

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