GoDaddy Employee Reviews about "leadership"
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Return to all Reviews- 5.0May 3, 2016Profession Hosting SupportCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsGilbert, AZ
Pros
People are great! Stress is low, fun is high. You help customers and make them happy. Make decent to good to great money!!!
Cons
It is growing so fast you need to get in now if you want to advance easier. Leadership is not bad but depending you get can depend on how the team is run.
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GoDaddy Response8yWow!! What a review! Its great to hear that you are having fun with us! Over the last couple years we have made some pretty major changes based on agent feedback around career pathing, compensation, and training. All to make it a great employee experience in hosting support. We have more changes planned and are always looking to get better, Thank you for being on this journey with us!
- 1.0May 21, 2014ManagerFormer Employee, more than 3 years
Pros
Cool Logo and Danica Sue Patrick
Cons
Identity crisis. They don't know what they want to be when they grow up. Serious lack leadership ( there was one guy who 'got it' and he's gone) Waaaaaaay to many chiefs, not enough Indians. The CEO is good, but some of the folks he's brought in are doing significant damage. He's basically trusting the wrong folks...
5 - 2.0Dec 25, 2018Customer Service ManagerFormer Employee, more than 1 yearIsmaning
Pros
great company culture and atmosphere
Cons
unfortunately the biggest miscommunication lies between US and EMEA - EMEA does NOT execute as US leadership would like to see it implemented. That way EMEA just overrides all the changes and adjustments - including firing staff that are important for the culture and engagement at GoDaddy. The most disappointing experience that HR is not truly hiring with a long-term vision and firing people who are still on probabtion. Also customer service leadership does not do their job and take over tasks and dutites from other employees - while this not only makes them look bad but also take their earned credit away.
GoDaddy Response5yThanks for sharing such candid feedback with us. We will bring your comments to the attention of our HR and Acquisition teams. Best of luck with your latest endeavor.
- 4.0Sep 4, 2016Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Benefits, flexible time off, high level of commitment to improving our training, knowledge and career development at the top, but our supervisors and managers don't follow that strategy or commitment.
Cons
Huge disconnect from the CEO's strategy and what we see driven from the leadership team. Our strategy appears to be clear, but we end up bouncing around like a buoy in rough sees... we focus on the shiny object of the month, or sometimes day.
1GoDaddy Response8yThank you for sharing your personal insights. We value and appreciate your time to provide us with opportunities to improve. Good news on the training front. We have been rolling our new Team meeting style training's every 2 weeks focused on the products and behavioral skills needed to be the best at your job. We have also introduced an online academy for GoDaddy allowing anyone to take training while at work or at home. With an industry that moves and changes as quickly as the internet ongoing training is a big focus to keep us all up to speed. Sincerely, Brad Ehly Customer Care Director
- 2.0Aug 30, 2013Software DeveloperFormer Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Lots of money and perks to go around , Mr. Parsons does like to give things away.
Cons
There are definitely insiders and outsiders. Not sure that the money and perks make up for the total lack of morals of the company leadership. it is too bad they are dragging down people like Danica in the process.
2 - 4.0Oct 31, 2022Anonymous EmployeeFormer Employee, more than 1 yearScottsdale, AZ
Pros
good people work - life balance is possible good benefits
Cons
HR needs to be more progressive but leadership is stuck in the past Comp is average
1GoDaddy Response2yThanks for the feedback and sharing your experience at GoDaddy. We always empower our teammates, current and former, to live passionately and provide honest feedback that will help us grow as a company. Wishing you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
- 5.0Aug 18, 2021People OperationsCurrent Employee, more than 5 years
Pros
GoDaddy does its absolute best to ensure an inclusive and diverse work environment that promotes creative thinking and collaboration. I thoroughly enjoy the fun office activities and ERGs and initiatives put forward by the leadership team.
Cons
Salary is sometimes not as competitive as other companies in the tech industry. I haven't had a lot of luck with that in people operations and there hasn't been much room for discussion.
- 1.0Apr 29, 2023Technical Account ManagerFormer Employee, more than 8 yearsLos Angeles, CA
Pros
they paid me for a while
Cons
Do you like high school drama at every step of what should be routine decisions and actions? Do you like having multiple managers overseeing your day to day like a ridiculous Office Space parody? Do you like leadership that publicly says one thing and then does the exact opposite less than a week later? Do you like below market pay and benefits? Do you like extreme tech debt and terrible internal tools? Do you like teams so compartmentalized that it takes hours to find the right person to talk to and when you do they refuse to do anything?
6GoDaddy Response7moWe’re sorry to hear that your experience did not go as expected. We are committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and strive to take care of our employees, first and foremost. We have a number of feedback methods, and encourage anyone that would like to learn more to reach out to their leader or HR representative. If anyone is experiencing a situation not aligned with GoDaddy’s values, we absolutely want to hear about it so we can address it. We take these concerns very seriously. For employees that feel like this hasn’t happened, please reach out to our 24x7x365 Ethics Helpline www.godaddy.com/ethicshelpline, which can be used anonymously. We are committed to promptly and thoroughly investigating all complaints and taking appropriate action in response. Wishing you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
- 4.0Jan 18, 2019Software EngineerFormer Employee, more than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
1. Location was right on Union square. 2. Solid people 3. Great engineering 4. Catered lunches 5. Managers were great, fun and very relatable and only concerned with your success. 6. Colleagues were more like friends
Cons
1. Product vision could have been better 2. The 'senior leadership' (the executive team) at times were harsh. 3. Any person (whether you're a director or VP) if you challenged the decision of the 'senior leadership' team, you were laid off.
2 - 3.0Jan 16, 2017Hosting SupportFormer EmployeeGilbert, AZ
Pros
Great teammates and most leadership is supportive and will help you get promoted if that's what you want. If you are just looking for the steady paycheck; there is a lot of money to be made if you know how to sell.
Cons
You will be doing the same thing day in and day out. The call types change but not that much. There are times when leadership is not available and call quality suffers because of it.
GoDaddy Response7yThank you for taking the time to provide us your feedback. We understand that working in a phones environment can be repetitive and that is one of the reasons that we focus so much on our culture and making everyone's time here as fun as possible. We have also worked hard to increase promotion paths with multiple groups in the Hosting Department so that agents have the ability to move to other teams and try new calls to add a change to their day. In regards to the concerns in leadership, we have expanded our leadership team and coverage to ensure that we have enough resources for our agents.
