Don't bother - Customer Service Representative Octopus Energy Employee Review

2.0
Apr 25, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food, and coffees, well stocked kitchen. Not overly stat driven as opposed to other call centres. Not laid out (floor plan) like a traditional call centre. Treat you like a baby in the training process/ almost patronising, and dumb everything down. The place is quite literally run by children (average age range early to mid 20's in the office). Big on the rainbow brigade agenda, so at least there's plenty of colour and rainbows. It does become incredibly annoying after a while, especially when that agenda is forced down your throat. Clowns with purple and neon hair, ridiculous facial piercings jutting out of random places and bright yellow fingernails, walking about the office first thing Monday morning, is an affront to the senses. Oh, and pets are permitted in the office as well.

Cons

Awful salary for the amount of work, expectations and standards required. Everything seems rosey but honestly don't waste your time there. There is very limited career progression. Even once you're trained up in the various specialisms, after a solid 5 year career you'll only be on around 26/27k annually. Absolute pittance.

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Octopus Energy Response
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Hello, Thanks for taking the time to leave your feedback. I’m happy to hear you appreciated our office and our approach to above and beyond customer service being the most important thing for us but also sorry to hear that you weren’t happy in regards to pay and progression. We value our teams greatly and we regularly evaluate our salaries for this reason, which recently led to us raising our starting salary in Leicester. Over the last few years, we have put in a lot of changes to further support the development journey of our Energy Specialists which provides more transparency and guidance when it comes to pay. If this hasn’t been your experience, it would be helpful to understand why not. I can see that you're a former employee but I'd love to chat with you in more detail about your experience with us so that we can learn from this in future. Please do reach out to me on email at fay.olner@octoenergy.com if you'd be willing to have a chat. All the best, Fay Olner, Site Operations Manager

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