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COO is absolutely useless - Customer Service Manager Peakon Employee Review

1.0
6 July 2019
Recommend
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Pros

It’s easy to make friends here.

Cons

The COO is a serial liar who has lost the respect of most employees. He can’t scale a team and just sacks people pretty regularly showing he has no idea to hire in the first place!! At face value he is all smiles but has an extremely dark and callous side to him - I would watch out if interviewing for HR or Ops or CS position. The CRO is equally useless - the introduction of WIT as a value has divided everyone in the company and for a progressive by thought business having a 90s slogan seems bizarre at best. The company has failed to build good career opportunities. I have witnessed bullying from CRO to employee in front of other staff members (that person then left the business). The salaries here are not on benchmark you could get much more elsewhere and thankfully I will soon :) HR is unbelievably boring as a space to operate in. You don’t feel valued and you are scared in to putting good company ratings as you question your own anonymity on internal surveys.

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Peakon Response
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Hi, it’s regrettable to read such personal feedback about two members of our team. I should state that I disagree entirely with your summary here, however, what is most upsetting is that you have not chosen to raise these views with me or other members of the organisation. Many members of our team, from all across the business, have come to me to discuss other leaders and I often take direct action as a result. Even when I don’t agree with their views I always applaud them for doing so. To address some of your points. Our COO has built a customer success team from scratch that delivers an incredible service to our clients, and has genuinely world-class NPS and renewal rates as a result. He deserves massive credit for this, and his team, who I speak with regularly, absolutely echo this. Equally, I have the utmost confidence in our CRO, and the way he leads his team. Of all the leaders that I’ve worked with in my career, has an outstanding level of professionalism, dedication to quality, and willingness to embrace others opinions. Of course, we don’t get everything right, but the way we succeed is supporting each other and having frank discussions – which we’re always willing to do. Making personal slights and insults towards members of our team, is the absolute opposite of the behaviour that we tolerate at Peakon, and I’m disappointed that anyone in the company would act in this way. Phil

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1.0
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Pros

Maybe if you work in Copenhagen, you will have more benefits than here. It is true that there have been a lot of attrition this year. The company seems to be facing an identity crisis but the market fit is still there and competition in Europe (not US) is not fierce yet. If you are in the inner circle, you'll have 20-25hrs work week.

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There is an artificial stressor on being passionated / all for the company / selflessness-y. The comp here in US is poor and the stock program just pathetic.. That reflects in the high turn over and incapacity to bring real talents in. That might fly by in Denmark where life seems to be easier to get by, but not in NYC where we have to actually pay high rent and health care, unfortunately. Management pool is overall disappointing. As pointed by other reviews, managers and senior staff from Europe are very out of reality when it comes to cultural diversity, bring the best of each individual, autonomy and fostering creativity. There is one way, the Peakon way and you are expected to fit in that mould. There is something to be said about cultural and diversity awareness. The first impression is "great, this is an international company, there is not really a language barrier!". This impression will soon fade when you realize most of people in Copenhagen never had to deal with real life challenges - making it hard to have a career planning around salary / performance when all they care about is "passion for the product".

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