Alorica reviews

3.0

45% would recommend to a friend

(11,519 total reviews)
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Mike Clifton and Max Schwendner

58% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Alorica has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 11,519 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Alorica employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Recursos humanos industry (3.8 stars).

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2.0
Apr 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

After training you get $10 an hour and $15 an hour for every hour of overtime. If you stay a year it gives you the customer service experience you need to advance to really good paying and actual professional jobs.

Cons

You have to fight for shifts. You can need a shift with weekends off but you may get a shift where you work from 330pm to midnight with only Mondays and Tuesdays off. It's the most crowded place I've every worked. They have about 300 computers and with lots of people staying for overtime, there can be over fifty people standing and waiting for a computer. You have to get there atleast half hour or more early to hope up get into a computer and clock in on time. Customers complain about the background noise. Half the time you can barely hear them. Management is very lazy, rude, and they don't really care if you're running late or have an emergency, it's not their problem. They're always in meetings and it's near to impossible to get an available supervisor to answer a question, take an escalation, or to take a payment. There are times when you need a supervisor to complete certain tasks. Management on the actual floor after training is very unprofessional. Whether it's cursing, making inappropriate jokes, or just refusing to help while they sit I their cell phones and take ten smoke breaks in a day. Some people can handle that. Me being prior military, I was disgusted with the type of people they would hire to lead and set an example for others. You're elbow to elbow with the people sitting around you. If you just want experience to get to a better job then go for it. But it's not a dream job. There's a lot of pressure on passing customer surveys even if they get mad because they can hear representatives being inappropriate in the back ground. There's pressure on how long your calls are even though you may have to wait half an hour until you get a supervisors help. There's pressure on using all the right steps on the computer systems for each call yet the computers malfunction our just stop working half the time.

1.0
Feb 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money - not a lot (I made $10/hour) but it's nice to have steady income.

Cons

If you want to actually feel like you've accomplished something at work, this is not the job for you. You'll be honored with being told to deny service to customers, citing subparagraph A sec B sub C from the terms and conditions of their warranty - on a CONSTANT basis, the majority of my work was warranties and service denials. Really depressing. I got to hear sob stories about how whatever caused the service denials happened, and as much as I empathized I had no latitude to help. On the other hand I got screamed down by a bunch of customers too for the same reason. It was designed to be practically impossible for someone to get to speak to a manager. Many times I got calls back from customers who were hung up on. Managers are useless too - they won't help you with overrides (and SOmany things require a manager override), and if they will there's no way in hell they'll do it for you right then and there...they'll make you set it up and give them the case number, and if the manager doesn't lose it they may eventually take a look right before they go home - good luck getting them to read any detailed notes. So many screwups by managers.. Everything is run by stats, if you stay on the phone longer than 10 minutes, it counts against you - and you can get written up for it too. Break times are monitored ***gasp you took 15.5 minutes!!!***, and to do anything with Human Resources you are required to clock out...no getting paid. :) Lunches aren't paid either. For bereavement leave (immediate family). you only get 2 days off of work. The health care plan sucks, they don't even contribute to it...they just get you a discount somewhere with really crappy plans. If you can imagine the most stereotypical cubical environment, you'd be pretty dang close to what you see everyday at the Alorica call center. Cheesy 90s motivational posters included, with a bunch of tacky slogans tacked to every cubicle. Kinda just jotted out cons as they came to mind - I tried to blur it all out once I left Alorica. :P

1.0
Mar 25, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

On the good side my check has never been wrong - mainly because I am salaried and don't hit a clock. I get a discount on some client programs.

Cons

As a line manager in this company it is an exercise in frustration. Executive management is COMPLETELY out of touch with what is going on in the centers and frankly don't care. Everyone on the front line are just numbers that they see on the bottom line. In-center management is not good either, no one gets any real training so if you are a decent agent and your boss likes you, you can get moved up but good luck being successful with no training on how to be a manager. If you are hourly they will get your pay check wrong regularly. The systems are so bad that it can take up to 10 minutes just to log in.

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