OpenTable Customer Support Representative reviews

4.3

97% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)
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Debby Soo

99% approve of CEO

97% positive business outlook

Customer Support Representative employees have rated OpenTable with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 18 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Customer Support Representative professionals have an excellent working experience there. OpenTable is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Customer Support Representative professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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18 reviews
5.0
Aug 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

* Amazing work environment * OpenTable takes care of their employees * Excellent payment * Is the best job I've ever had * There's the option to work from Home * They always give me useful feedback * There's LGBTQ+ inclusion

Cons

I haven't seen or felt cons working here

3.0
Jul 28, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- You have a set schedule but keep in mind it changes every 6 months. - Managers can be really nice, not sure if you can really trust them though. - There is room to move into other positions although not sure how much of a pay increase you would get in the positions that is right above support. - Overall, not a bad company to work for if you do not mind the low pay of course. - No one expects you to work more than you are scheduled. They take work/life balance pretty serious. - Sometimes you get the opportunity to get same day PTO if you win. - Majority of the times, it is not that busy so if there are enough agents on the floor then you will get breaks between phone calls but if there are not enough agents then you may get calls back to back.

Cons

- If you are not bilingual, you will get paid $17 an hour and $19 if you are bilingual. - Daily schedules could be really unfair sometimes. Schedules are supposed to be split up between phones, chats and emails but you may get the whole day or majority of your day on phones while other people have a lot of chat and email time. I would really love to know how they determine the daily schedule changes. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was favoritism and they pick and choose who does what. - Training could be a bit better, it was short and felt like it was too quick. With all of the info you have to learn working on the restaurant side, you will not be really comfortable with the product until months later.

1.0
Jul 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great for building basic office skills. You also get the chance to create a launching pad for your career. But you do need to be focused on what your own Professional goals are! Have them written down, and know where you want to go. Managers will help you achieve them while also making sure you are pushed to succeed in their goals for the CSR role. Admittedly, while you are able to grow, it is highly unlikely that they will acknowledge your achievements in your Quarterly Review or if you ask for a raise or promotion. If you are looking to work here: It really is great if you can figure out what you want and need from it. A lot of management is micro and controlling and overly aware of your actions even when you feel you are succeeding (especially when succeeding). This is where the opportunity is for you to let them help you grow. When this “opportunity” arises, be sure to know what ways you’d like to succeed. They will provide you with tools to do so and some fantastic insights into the corporate world. To be wise: Do what feels right to you and learn from what they can show you. But don’t spend too much time trying to achieve goals that feel disingenuous to any part of your true self.

Cons

Tldr; This role devalues independence, can be dehumanizing and consistently lacks positive reinforcement. Not valued as an employee. This is widespread in every facet. The pay is low, the acknowledgements are lacking, the pressure is immense. Expectations are to handle roughly 45 - 85 cases a day, if not more (and they push for more, always more). The tools they use to judge your work - like the Pillars of Excellence (aka QAs) and the average handle times - often make for asinine interactions and lose out on authenticity. When real authenticity is applied and the customer is retained by the interaction, the QA will still judge it as subpar or not judge it at all because of the length of the interaction (they judge the shortest calls for the most check boxes). This method dwindles the confidence of its employees while also make their working lives more difficult. When I voiced that some of their expectations are dehumanizing, it was met with the idea that I lacked accountability. This is not true. They laid out expectations (increasingly dehumanizing ones) and I applied every request. The issue was that I would use the restroom outside of the alotted 15 minute breaks (which are very strict, are specifically placed and cannot be broken up even for using the restroom). I strove to meet their requests and my own human needs in a number of ways and approaches. 3 ways, to be specific. Each way was not correct because the true expectation was for me to put my basic human needs aside and put forward the corporate ideal. Additionally, it was expected that I relay every time that I went to the restroom exactly what I was doing. When I voiced that this was dehumanizing, I was told I lacked accountability. (At this time I also held some of the highest KPIs on the floor and was a part of the top performing team)

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