Rightworks Reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(169 total reviews)

Ian Williams

33% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Rightworks has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 169 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rightworks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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169 reviews
1.0
15 May 2024

A Failing Company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote work and some great coworkers.

Cons

A month ago, I was optimistic about Rightworks, praising the company's expansive new facilities and the significant opportunities highlighted during our lavish sales kickoff. However, my situation has drastically changed. Despite exceeding my sales targets early, I found myself abruptly unemployed, with no prior indication from management. The company recently showcased its deep pockets by flying in 200 employees for a grand event featuring celebrities and expensive entertainment. Yet, when it came to supporting staff who were suddenly let go, the resources mysteriously dried up. The same day I was terminated, I learned about my fate not through direct communication but by the absence of reassurance others received. Despite the praises from executives, including being labeled an “A-player,” I was offered a minimal severance that barely considered my needs or those of my family. The dismissal process lacked empathy and support, with benefits cut off instantly and no aid offered to transition, despite the company's ample resources displayed just weeks prior. This stark contrast in treatment has left me and several peers questioning the company’s priorities and ethics. As I scramble to adjust my personal life, including explaining to my young daughter why I won’t be traveling to a previously planned company event, I feel compelled to share this experience. For those considering a position at Rightworks, be aware that the outward corporate glamour might not reflect the reality of its treatment of valued employees.

1.0
20 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The training is great, you can go in knowing next to nothing about tech stuff and you will be able to learn. - Once you are working everyone on your level is supportive and helpful.

Cons

- This is where I get into the recent changes management have made. There is a new system in place that will auto-assign tickets to technicians even when they are in the queue. This leads you to always having at least 15 tickets you need to work and I have seen that number climb to nearly 40. All while you are constantly taking phone calls and not given a moment to breathe. They just made this change one day that easily triples to quadruples the amount of work you do on a daily basis with no change in pay. You are constantly drowning in work and it is nearly impossible to get your head above water. On top of this, there is now a system in place that tells you exactly how to spend every single minute of your day while management watches to see who is and who is not adhering to their schedule. If you spend too much time working on your auto-assigned tickets and not talking to one of the angry customers who are fed up with the slow-at-best cloud service, you will get a message from someone above you asking what you are doing and telling you that you need to be in the queue. They made this change just before tax season when the queues are the most busy and I have not heard a single person say they are able to maintain this absurd new workload. Many technicians have left and many more have put in their two weeks notice. To pay your technicians a paltry salary with awful PTO and then turn around and put the brunt of the work on them is insulting and despicable. This job has quickly gone from an enjoyable learning experience where you can work at your own pace to a micromanaged debilitating nightmare that I dread having to log into every day. - On top of this you are always at the risk of being scheduled to be "on-call" for a week. This means for a week you will work your regular shift and then also have to be ready to take a call on your personal device at any moment from 9 P.M. to 7 A.M. and then work your regular shift again. This leads to a constant anxiety of not knowing if you are going to be able to sleep at night or if you are going to get a call at two in the morning from some entitled CEO who wants to know how to download the Outlook mobile app. - There are frequent system and application incidents because the cloud-service offered by Right Networks seems to be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, leading to customers frequently being frustrated as they can not complete the simplest tasks. - I have seen a lot of other reviews mention this but I feel it bears repeating, this company is mostly white men. Of course there are employees who do not fall into that category but there is a staggering lack of diversity. - To summarize, you will do an excruciating amount of work dealing with annoyed customers and get paid no where near enough. The company knows that the job marketplace is difficult right now and they are exploiting their workers because they know the workers will have a hard time finding a job elsewhere right now. They are squeezing the maximum amount of work out of their employees while maintaining the minimum amount of pay. Some lovely people work here but the upper management is nothing more than a pack of money-hungry wolves looking to exploit their workers into making them more money. A month or two ago I would have happily recommended this place to others but now I can not in good conscience recommend anyone works here. BONUS: A manager in a meeting recently blatantly stated that profits were more important than the employees and their wellbeing. They recognize what they are doing by making the work excruciating but do not care because they are able to squeeze the life out of their techs while paying them barely enough.

1.0
10 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work Some awesome employees unlimited PTO

Cons

the majority of the leadership team was hired because they were friends with the CEO. Most of them do not have the experience to be in their positions. There is no oversight of leaders - they can do the bare minimum or make massive mistakes and don't answer for it. This results in not having any upward trajectory because their jobs are so cushy they will never leave. The company is incredibly siloed. Although it claims to be a product-led organization, it is actually 10000000% a sales-led organization. They make incredibly dumb financial decisions and then fix it by doing layoffs. The head of HR is one of the most inappropriate people I have ever met, and if she weren't in HR, she would be immediately fired. I have seen execs work 3-4 day work weeks all summer, and no one says anything. I have seen execs derail projects just because they want something without concern for the actual customer. My favorite part is that bonuses are not based on performance so why even try to be awesome?

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