Concentrix reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(44,717 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Concentrix has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 44,717 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Concentrix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 6, 2016

Not worth it

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I know this will sound extreme but the only real pros to this place is that you get paid and in someways they are relaxed in their attendance.

Cons

The minute you start training you get to see the first problem here. The trainers are fools who do not know what is actually happening out on the floor. They are more interested in wasting your time going on and on about how they have done every job there, playing favorites, leaving the room constantly, not answering direct question, and having you spend hours a day on typing tests rather than go in depth on the material. Additionally Concentrix seems to have no interest whatsoever in maintaining the A/C in the building. The whole time I worked there it never funtioned well. There was a week where it was over 90 degrees in there. Even after it was supposedly fixed it would still be 80 or above regularly. You make it through the 3 weeks of complete misery and graduate the training. You are told when you go out on the floor that you will have no less than 3 people in the immediate area ready to help with your questions. The first day 3 turned in to one. By the end of the week there were literally hours with no floor support, which lead to having customers waiting ridiculous amounts of time. Then there is the matter of natural human functions. You could in theory go when you needed to but if you were not on your break it counted as unscheduled breaks and could affect your pay, your ability to move up, and if it was more than 10 - 15 minutes a week you got chewed out for it. Now let's move on to the matter of the insane song and dance they wish for you to have with the customer. They had numerous half-scripted key points that had to be in every call, whether it was relevant or not, and if you didn't do these things and it was on a reviewed call you were dinged for it. I know it sounds like no big deal but when you start out these reviews are supposed to be daily and if you don't score high enough of an average over time it affects your ability to move up or get a raise. It is a double edged sword though because you want these reviews so you can move up. There is a minimum number of reviews before they will let you mover forward. In my case after two weeks I only had 2 reviews and everyone else had 8 - 10. I had to keep on them about it. Then all I got in return was "I am sorry you fell through the cracks because we forget to assign you to someone". Then we I did start getting my reviews they kept trying to falsely mark points off. I had to constantly correct them. Remember that favoritism that was in training that also rings true on the floor. If you are part of the "in" with your floor management you move forward much more quickly, you are given more slack on policy, and are generally treated in a more favorable manner. Now on to the matter of the aftercall work. You had make darn sure that you spent as much time as you can having the customer on hold to do as much of the aftercall work as you can. After 3 weeks they want you below 5 minutes, which sounds reasonable but you may have to send as many as 3 emails in that time ,with each one having to have loads of information typed in in a specific way, and if you are on aftercall longer than 5 minutes you hear it echo out over the floor on the radios. Then it is at the point the people that are supposed to be there to help you and have been nowhere to be seen are all over you telling you to hurry up. Another thing with aftercall is that sometimes, especially early on, you need assistance from someone to do everything properly and there were times I had to be on aftercall over 45 minutes waiting for someone to come and help. Did I mention that this metric also affects your ability to move up? In closing Concentrix clearly takes advantage of people who feel they cannot do better. They spend an awful lot of time convincing you that you are bettering yourself and just so that they can keep people who will tolerate these conditions.

1.0
Aug 9, 2016

If you don't expect much...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

For the contract I am currently working under the pay is not horrible (with one caveat - see cons). They also just recently opened up a new building at the site which looks a lot nicer than the older buildings we were working in (...but yeah, uh, see cons again). As a 'business services' company, Concentrix is not unlike a barnacle - but one that can move from whale to whale, thus ensuring it's survival long after the whale dies or shrugs it off. So, if you're not picky about what product you're supporting or how much you're paid...

Cons

This company provides contract-based customer service, but unlike some competitors each contract is basically considered it's own 'call center'. Because the company fosters that mindset, employees working under different contracts rarely interact with each other and essentially have to follow a different set of rules than their coworkers - even when it comes to things like dress code, which are normally standardized. Although the pay is not bad, payroll errors are very commonplace. I've been working here almost a year, and it's not an exaggeration to say that almost every payday someone's check is wrong (usually it's multiple people) - wrong pay rate, taxes withheld don't match W-4, wrong amount of hours worked, paychecks issued as paper checks when they should be direct deposit, paper checks supposedly sent to a site out of state, you name it. I'm not talking about small or insignificant errors, like missing .25 hours here or there, but huge glaring errors like only getting paid for 6 hours when it should have been 80, or finally getting a paper check Monday when your direct deposit should have posted the Friday before. On top of that, incremental raises which were promised based on tenure don't get applied until months after they should have been. As mentioned, they just opened up a new building at our location. It looks nice, but they basically took a building which was built in the 50's and gave it a fresh coat of paint and new furniture. It seems to suffer from major plumbing problems, and only a couple months after opening (and with only a fraction of it's projected capacity) there are clogged toilets daily, toilets that flush for 3-5 minutes when you push the lever, and 'out of order' signs posted on bathroom doors. Things like toilet paper and paper towel dispensers are luxury that also *frequently* are broken and don't work.

3.0
Jun 11, 2016
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Pros

I've worked in previous call centres, door to door work, retail and the catering industry and I've hated all my other previous jobs more than this one and it can be an enjoyable place to work for the most part. It's not the worst company I've ever worked for and you could definitely work for a worse call centre, I think people forget that this IS a call centre, they are all very fast paced environments and all call centres expect you to work hard and hit high targets, if you can't do that, don't apply to work in one because you will obviously hate it after a month or so. - Friendly coworkers (for the most part) - Opportunity to work hours that suit your needs - Slightly above minimum wage - In the city centre of Belfast unlike alot of other call centres, easy to locate offices and cheaper than having to travel far to get to work if you do live in Belfast - Opportunity for promotion if you're willing to prove yourself - No payroll issues - Choice of weekly or monthly pay

Cons

- Lack of communication about changes - HR are practically non existent, hard to get a hold of in emergencies and can take weeks/months to get back to you - VERY target focused, expect an interview on why you're not meeting it, even if its not something you can control (long call notes, system issues etc) - Some favouritism exists with some managers - Very hard to be taken seriously when it comes to complaints or suggestions - No bonus scheme and next to no benefits on some contracts - Upper management don't seem to really care about their employees - Staff rooms and toilets are disgusting (but this is due to some staff not cleaning up after themselves and being disgusting, not managements fault, there are regular cleaners in place, staff need to learn to clean up after themselves and be more hygienic and in some extreme cases stop acting like farm animals) - Air con/heating issues, sweat box in the summer, freezing in the winter - Holidays are never available, favouritism applies when requesting dates off, not first come first served as it should be

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