Cologix Reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)
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Laura Ortman

65% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Cologix has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cologix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
11 Aug 2016

Clique-logix, Inc

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is nice, however I would take that with a grain of salt as I was able to keep my previous salary before Cologix bought the company. Outside of that, I can't think of any positive thing to say about this company.

Cons

Where to begin? So the upper management of Cologix is basically a group of friends who started a business. If anything does not fall in line with their view of how things should be run it is ignored. They'll smile to your face and promise that they'll fix it, but nothing gets done. Nothing. They don't understand how awful some of their business practices are. For example, not all of their data centers are staffed 24x7. They have some Fortune 500 companies as tenants in their data centers, and the way critical issues are handled is awful. If a customer needs an emergency remote hands support they may have to wait upwards of 45 minutes to an hour for a tech. This is unacceptable. They also expect a small team (read: about 2 people on shift is the average) to monitor 20+ data centers, manage a call queue, and do remote hands work, and then have the audacity to say that they're not hiring people to help alleviate the work load, and then criticize the employees when issues aren't handled in a timely manner. There is no accountability in their ticketing system. When a customer calls in expect to have no answers from them. They open tickets in the ticketing system for the sole purpose of closing them at a later date. There are no tech notes, no troubleshooting information, nothing. Each ticket is basically "Customer has issue" then "Hello, I'm informing you that the issue is fixed and closing the case." Everything is handled via email, with no permanent record of what goes on. Cologix alienates customers by awful billing practices. They do not accept credit cards (unless you keep it on file and set up autopay). When you get past due they WILL unplug/disconnect you with barely any notice. This typically happens on a Friday, so when the customers call in about it the billing department is not there (during the weekend) and nothing will be done. They will not even allow for exceptions, such as "it's the weekend we'll pay on Monday, can we just be turned back on?" (Granted, a lot of people would abuse that, but it's still a bad way to deal with customers). Yes, there needs to be a policy about how past-due payments are handled, but if you CFO says "they will not be turned on unless they have cash in hand" it puts a bad taste in your clients' mouths. Take care of them and they will take care of you. If your company is being bought by Cologix I highly suggest fleeing as fast as you can. Management will make empty promises and just force you to do everything their way. I completely understand that when buyouts/mergers happen nothing is going to stay the same; however if you're hemorrhaging staff at an alarming rate because you're too goddamn stubborn to compromise or listen to your employees there is a problem.

1.0
22 Dec 2022

poor work life balance

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Pros

it's a job, and my paycheck never bounced.

Cons

The problem with Cologix is that Cologix doesn't really exist to operate data centers, it's purpose is to buy and build data centers as an investment vehicle for the hedge fund that owns Cologix. Things like properly operating the data centers, taking care of the customers in the data centers, or not driving employees insane with overwork aren't a priority, because there is seemingly infinite demand for the interconnection-focused data center space, and a corresponding demand from the investors to grow the company. The end result is a company that is very good at acquiring data centers and never telling the sales department "no", but very bad to work for (unless you're in the sales department). The toll working at Cologix took on my mental health was grim. looking back, I consider myself lucky for getting out when I did, because things were worse than I realized while I was there. Cologix has "unlimited" PTO, which really means you have no PTO because you're always too busy to take it. And the CEO used to pat himself on the back for giving us all "mental health days" during the pandemic, but nobody I knew ever took them because we were all too busy. To be fair, I think management actually thought they were doing a good job looking out for their employees' mental health, so it's not like they didn't care, they were just out of touch.

1.0
16 Aug 2016

Worst company I have ever worked for

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Pros

There are some really smart engineers that can teach you a lot.

Cons

None of those great engineers are empowered to make decisions. All decisions are managed by 5 people. These 5 people are single minded, negative, self-centred, and ruthless. There are little to no ethics at this company. The blame will fall somewhere..described as a head will roll. This is what happens when a human error takes place, even if not caused by that human. There is no support or HR. If you have a real problem there is no path to resolution. The resolution is in the hands of a legal council draped as HR. The only thing she is concerned with is liability. This company has one of the worst cultures ever witnessed. There is no motivation, no positive feedback, no clear direction, and no value given to its employees or customers. The customers are their least important assets. Its sad too because most of the companies that were purchased by cologix had amazing cultures and customer service departments. It is painfully apparent that the only thing that matters is selling the company.

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