It's like having a horrible call center inside a great company - Customer Support Navan Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

TripActions in general, is a great place to work for: cool offices, nice food, travel stipend and other good perks. If you are NOT a Support agent, you have great chances to develop yourself and climb within the organization.

Cons

Support is basically like having one of the worst call-center companies within TripActions. You still have the same perks as everyone else, but you deal with SLA-obssessed managers and overworked colleagues. If you only take one chat at a time, you are an underperformer. Tier 1s and Tier 2s are equally overworked, staff have to deal with the false promises made by management (chats answered within 60 seconds), which are impossible to fulfill with stressed out, overworked staff, high absenteeism, stress, burnout, etc are common. Most of your days you have to deal with 2 or more customers simultaneously, total madness. Have you ever watched that Walking Dead episode when Negan kills Abraham, praising him for "taking it like a champ"? That is what you get from managers when you're able to handle multiple customers simultaneously... "X is taking it like a champ!" Support staff will never have the chance to grow internally, all career opportunities are Tier 2 and Tier3 (queues agent), lead and manager. Nothing else.

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Navan Response
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Hi there. We want to thank you for providing your feedback. While we wish your experience was a more positive one, we appreciate you sharing with us, and helping us to improve how we operate. Fostering career development and providing growth opportunity is important to us. As we are a growing company, there are many opportunities for our employees that contribute to the success of our business. Your quarterly check-in with your manager is a great time to explore and discuss where your skills and your passions intersect. We are actively hiring for Support Agents an effort to provide an even better experience for both our customers and our employees. If you have additional feedback or thoughts on how we can continue to improve, please reach out to the People team. Thank you!

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