Smarthome Reviews

3.6

57% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)

Rob Lilleness

75% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Smarthome has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Smarthome employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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22 reviews
2.0
8 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get hired to CSR position and the men and women who work in that department (only the other CSRs) are awesome. Not every day was a bad day when working with them. Great office culture despite all upper management would try to do.

Cons

Where do I begin? I suppose as a CSR rep, it became very disheartening to see just how little this company cared about its customer satisfaction. Sure they have a decent BBB rating but it is only there because of how much effort they put into damage control as opposed to prevention. There is also very little respect shown to that department. Products that you are asked to troubleshoot are often poorly made with very little support provided, yet upper management refuses to acknowledge this. Direct supervisors (with some exception) are chosen based on how well they can boot lick with upper management rather than skill, ability or qualification. It's almost as if the decision is made based on the fact that they have been there for some time and answered a customer call once a few years ago. Their idea to reduce an atrociously high call volume and wait time is not improving products, hiring more techs or providing better training, but monitoring the CSR department with cameras, scheduling breaks, monitoring email activity and not listening to input or suggestion from the department.

3.0
31 July 2014

Boring work environment.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employees get employee discount at the store.

Cons

Poor code base causes more fix than innovation. Company loves to our source projects to china.

2.0
30 June 2014

Terrible work ethic

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It is easy to get hired and initially it seems like an easy going environment. It is air-conditioned and the products are great to try.

Cons

Upper management does not communicate well with anyone below them. Has fantasies about how everything should work and prolongs conflicts instead of solving them.

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