Limited opportunities and poor management hinder growth - Level Two Technician Avatara Employee Review

1.0
5 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Once your in, its hard to get fired. They will hire just about anyone for Level 1, their favorites usually are former starbucks employees.

Cons

The level ones are handicapped by management with 15 minute call times, they have no access to do just about anything. Things break constantly do to the development team messing with the app without testing. You will learn real quick on support that the management of support is just awful, I would say more but profanity isn't allowed, the manager will fly off the handle whenever you say anything to him he doesn't like. Promotions are few and not worth really going for since your going to get paid the same either way. When you do get promoted you will have to beg for a pay raise to even get a chance at it. There are 4-5 level twos and 12 level 1s, which means you have to wait until someone to quit to get promoted, since the other departments are full or won't take level 1s. You will learn real quick that the job is lie through your teeth to the customer and be as feed them some fluff about why their computer is slow. If your an older customer, your basically out of luck since they won't update your equipment until you threaten to leave. If your going to sign on with them, make sure you get everything you want, they don't care once the contract is fulfilled on their end upon being onboarded.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
21 Apr 2025
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Pros

It's easy to get a job there No dress code No drug test Diverse staff, lot of POC and LGBTQ people working there

Cons

Extremely difficult to get promoted - and if you do get promoted, you will not get your raise for a minimum of 6 months. The only way to get a raise in support is to get promoted. The C suite will make changes and not test them properly before deploying nor bother to inform anyone that they made the change, making both employees and clients suffer needlessly. The company is small, but they treat the C suite as you would expect in a large company (they will not speak to you directly, will not try to learn anything about their lower level employees such as their names, regardless of how good of an enployee you are) Any issues you have will not be taken seriously, whether it's pay, training difficulties, interpersonal conflicts, urgent tickets, etc. They do not pay overtime. And you WILL work overtime. Clients will be (reasonably) upset with you at all times and you are expected to be their emotional punching bag because management WILL NOT step in to assist you in any capacity. They pay excessively under market value for level 1 (and 2) help desk. I made 40,000/yr at Avatara, then when I moved to an equivalent role somewhere else, I got a 40% raise. They lie to clients. They are NOT 24/7 support, but tell clients they are. When a large issue occurs, you are expected to obfuscate and pretend you don't know what is happening instead of proactively informing users of problems to avoid frustration. The documentation for common issues is minimal and outdated, at best. The CEO very often drops his loud, rowdy dog off for his employees to handle while he makes himself completely unavailable. Any out-of-scope work you do will not be seen or appreciated by upper management. Instead, it will only become expected of you to take the extra responsibility for no additional pay. (for example, taking level 2 tickets as a level 1 technician or doing the monthly server maintenance)

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