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LiveAuctioneers reviews

4.2

78% would recommend to a friend

(24 total reviews)
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Phil Michaelson

85% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

LiveAuctioneers has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 24 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The LiveAuctioneers employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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24 reviews
2.0
Aug 22, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

I worked here for 3 months. I really liked what the company stands for. Working in a company with good values is a great place to be. The people on other teams other than mine (in Support) were really helpful and genuine. LiveAuctioneers has a great Product and Engineering team that would be awesome to be a part of.

Cons

The company culture was not upheld throughout the company. This was apparent to me by the Head of Support, who used tactics such as gaslighting and micromanaging to create a toxic work environment on the Support team. This toxicity led to the team being cliquey and gossipy. The Support Team was managed primarily by fear, not trust, even though the company's #1 value is Start with Trust. During my training experience there was poor communication from my manager. My job was threatened even though my performance was ahead of what I was being asked to accomplish. When I tried to give feedback about a better onboarding experience, my feedback was not received well and was told "this is the way we have always done things; my onboarding experience was worse back in the day." After continuous failed follow-through and him having openly questioned my ability to perform my job as early as day 2 despite having had strong interviews, I was left feeling distrustful of my manager's word. I was further penalized for agreed-upon time off (including a sick day from getting the vaccine) and was told I was "behind the curve" even though I was successfully accomplishing everything. Further gaslighting methods were on vague/unconstructive feedback on my work performance, making me question my abilities despite having strong personal KPIs. I would like to note that all of these frustrations and issues were brought to HR in the very early stages, and these concerns were not properly addressed or handled. I had a 1:1 with my manager and received positive feedback on my performance. I had also shared that I was exploring other job opportunities within the company for future development and growth. A few days following this meeting, my manager and HR terminated my employment without any indication or notice. When I asked for a reason for my termination they refused and were unable to provide me with one.

2.0
Aug 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I learned a lot and liked the people I worked with

Cons

The tech team was extremely overworked, pulling 14 hour days 6-7 days a week to try to keep up with the demands of marketing, and with a workflow where development and production code were kept in separate repositories instead of just different branches, which made deployment a nightmare- a dev cycle would finish and deployment would take another week to get everything working in the production repository. Not to mention the engineering team shared an open-plan office with the sales & support departments, so there was constant background noise of people on phone calls all day.

5.0
Mar 25, 2015

Very Friendly Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The employees are all very friendly, the environment is casual which makes you comfortable, and they provide you with everything you can possibly need.

Cons

Recently the ownership changed and things became different. The company did need some big changes, but it became a bit difficult to keep up. Not really a bad thing though.

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