Chaos Abounds - Technical Support Specialist Lightspeed Employee Review

2.0
Jul 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Many of my coworkers are great people, who are great to work with - You might find a comfortable niche here if you can embrace chaos and working in an low information environment

Cons

-Lack of direction and communication from C-levels, often the day-to-day feels leaderless where decision making and delegation is lacking. -Not enough support from middle management, this may be due to too few managers for teams, as past managers/leads who left have not has their roles filled and instead teams combined under existing managers -Poor development, issues affecting existing clients remain unaddressed with a focus on new acquisitions instead -The Lightspeed ecosystem has become very complicated, support agents are expected to have an extensive familiarity with a large array of functions, systems, integrations, and platforms, these expectations often border on unreasonable -Turnover has been an issue among key teams -Very little opportunity for career growth - this may be a decent first job but move on quickly if you are looking to move in your career -Poor training, after a short training period, the attitude is "sink or swim" but few will notice if you are sinking -Everyone appears to be overworked and the company line in recent years has been "do more with less" -Over time, the perks for employees have diminished while the workload and stressload has dramatically increased

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

-Unlimited PTO - Use this, the company allows it. This is the main reason I stayed at this company for so long. If they did not offer it, I would have been gone within minutes.

Cons

-Low pay- the company makes up for not paying you by offering unlimited PTO - They keep switching from Atena to Cigna, Kind of annoying when you already have an established PCP - Constant layoffs, its a running joke in this company that when you become a Team Lead you are about to get laid off. - Pay increase- Also it looks like when you start making too much money, prepare to get laid off. Accepting pay increases comes with less job security - This job you need a lot of adaptability- you never know if you might come in and you have an increased amount of duties because they laid someone off - this increase of duties does NOT come with an increased salary/hourly wage either. You are just expected to take on other peoples job duties for nothing in return. -Literally everyone is figuring out things on the spot, there are no tools provided to you to guide you through things. You just gotta figure it out as you go. - The company asks for more than they give. - The company has way too many meetings. You will end up sitting in meeting listening to other departments speak about things that have NOTHING to do with you. Time is not spent well here, time is wasted. - The CEO is very boastful and braggy, like telling us things about his personal life that doesnt pertain to anything related to work in any way, shape or form disguised as " fun facts" when its just a chance to brag.

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Lightspeed Response
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Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a review. It’s good to hear that you valued the unlimited PTO however, we’re concerned by the other feedback you’ve shared. We take this feedback seriously and use it to inform ongoing improvements. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
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