Great benefits and perks, poor management. - Member Service Representative SoFi Employee Review

2.0
Mar 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lunch stipend, quarterly bonus, free healthcare for most employees, working from home due to COVID-19. Great diversity and inclusion.

Cons

***10 WEEK pass or fail training*** MSR's are basically glorified call center agents. You answer to Workforce Management (WFM), not your manager. Your manager has no ability to go around what WFM says or does. Your schedule changes several times a day since WFM loves to push breaks around and/or add in random meetings last second. SoFi gives you plenty of PTO and sick time that you have to beg to be able to use, and if you have a last second emergency, best of luck to you, because they will not approve your PTO without a 3 day notice. Managers love to joke about the crash and burn lifestyle of working as an MSR for SoFi, but it isn't funny. The call volume DOES NOT allow for you to enjoy working from home because you are talking on the phone some 6/8 hours of the day. Your calls are constantly monitored and you are reprimanded on pretty much a weekly basis if you give the incorrect verbiage or information during a call. The money is fine, but it is NOT worth what you go through. Stay away.

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SoFi Response
5y
We appreciate you taking the time to share your SoFi experience with us; we're disappointed to hear your time on the Member Service Representative team hasn't met your expectations thus far. This role is an absolutely critical part of our mission to help our members achieve financial independence. Our goal is to create the best customer service in the industry, which means we are committed to ensuring our team members are available at all times of the day to address our members' needs. That said, we truly believe that our people are our biggest differentiator, and if we take care of them they will take care of our members. Our Workforce Management team regularly looks at data to anticipate when members will contact us, and we staff our team according to the demand. Our WFM and leadership team are in nearly constant contact to make sure we have the right team in place to meet the high volume of calls we receive. We are committed to equipping managers with the tools and resources they need to create an inclusive, supportive work environment where their team can do the best work of their lives. We would like the opportunity to directly address some of your concerns, so we encourage you to reach out to your PBP, a trusted executive, or email us at glassdoor@sofi.org to continue the conversation. We really appreciate the feedback.

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Pros

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Cons

You are literately a modern day slave with low pay and a tone of work. After a few months you have to get upskilled (more work) without any additional compensation. You are constantly evaluated: First call resolution is huge, the goal is for the member not to have to call back in at least a week. The company wants the call to last less than 5 minutes (or you get dinged). The company wants the members to respond to the surveys and if they don't it counts against you. if you go on chats, you will have to serve maneuver between two different once at the same time. You ONLY get a 30 minute lunch break and two 15 minute breaks. It is difficult to go to the restroom because while on the phones there is NO actual bathroom disposition and so you will get dinged and if it takes you longer than 5 minutes you get a message from intrudium informing you that you are out of adherence. The technology is the worse I have ever had to work with. It uses a program called Zscaler that is constantly disconnecting and when it does, it interrupts all of the other programs that are required to work with, in which case you have to inform WFM that you are having tech issues either by telephone or by sending a Workflow and hope it gets approved. While in training you are informed that you will only get paid up to 1 hr while having a tech issue. Workflows are huge and used for everything, including if you are suppose to clock out for the day but you are still on a call and it makes you go over 5 minutes (or you get dinged). Putting in for PTO or Sick Time is also not easy either, it's all about the companies needs so, hopefully you will get approved or maybe not. H.R. is only there a bit while you are hired and of course if you are let go but other than that, not sure what they do because there is no real connection.

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SoFi Response
1w
Hi there, thank you for leaving a review. We're sorry your experience didn't match your expectations and encourage you to reach out to glassdoor@sofi.org to discuss your review in more detail.
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