Decent Coworkers, shaky management, massively understaffed - Technical Support Representative StarRez Employee Review

2.0
Oct 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

100% Remote work, great coworkers, 4% 401k matching, Health, Vision, & Dental insurance, 6 days sick leave annual, decent PTO Accrual, higher than average pay for position

Cons

Shifting targets, a workload that fluctuates from manageable to treading water while leadership sells even more aggressive SLAs, significant turnover, constant broken promises from management. We've been understaffed since I was brought on and it's only gotten worse, theoretically there are three levels of Support agents but there are only 2 tier 3 agents, no tier 2 agents, and everyone else is a tier 1. Asking a manager for feedback almost always gets a generic "You're good" but team members who received positive feedback during official review cycles are dropped for "poor performance". There's been an increase in pushing agents to pull double duty in improving the knowledge base with no increase in compensation, title changes, or pathways to joining the team responsible for maintaining those articles. Management assigns tickets with little regard for workload, and leaves notes that are useless at best, misleading at worst. Diversity and Inclusion is a complete joke, company can't even take the most basic feedback that the winter holiday party shouldn't be constantly referred to as a Christmas party.

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5.0
Mar 19, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

High touch point with senior and exec level leadership. Lots of pro devo available. Perfect place to start your sales career if you have not had any background previously. Highly beneficial to have any higher ed experiences in student affairs, specifically housing/res life. Very strategic and individualized supervision and management. Fully remote positions are the norm, however some teams do require an in-office presence at least one a week. Fast-growing with two huge PE companies investing in them. Great place to work, highly recommend

Cons

Majority of exec leaders and PE board members do not have direct experience with higher ed and our customer base, so sometimes it is hard to navigate development and opportunities without them fully realizing the life cycle of our customer base in the industry

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