Customer Experience Team Lead
While this feels like it could be a young company still trying to figure out its culture and hiring practices, there are still some red flags that are hard to ignore, so I think it still belongs in Tread Carefully.
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While this feels like it could be a young company still trying to figure out its culture and hiring practices, there are still some red flags that are hard to ignore, so I think it still belongs in Tread Carefully.
It seems like a pretty straightforward Director role, but this is one of those times where playing Bad Job Bingo is more an art than a science because I'm getting a weird vibe from this job description.
This role sounds fascinating and the pay is fantastic. I see no flags, so we've got our first (and only?) Green Means Go of the week.
Seems like an awesome role with equally awesome pay.
Seems like an interesting role that doesn't come up often. We have the usual suspects ("fast-paced, dynamic environment," hello darkness, my old friend), but otherwise, nothing especially worrisome.
I'm surprised that they provide a salary range for their frontline role but not for this manager role. The way the bullet is phrased makes me wonder if it's a genuine, accidental oversight, but regardless – the lack of salary transparency means this has to go into Tread Carefully.
The difference is that this role is pretty entry-level and offers an avenue for folks in hospitality-based customer service roles to transition into a remote tech support role, gaining valuable startup experience in the meantime.
Not much to say about this one except that I'm irritated this leadership role is salaried and more adequately compensated while the frontline roles are not. That's some bullshit, Ramp.
I don't know about Miami, but $46.8K – $55K is shitty pay for a non-entry-level fintech support role in New York, even if it's remote.
Not provide fast responses and resolutions or excellent customer service, but fast TIMES and SCORES. Goddamn.
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This one is somewhat better for having lower requirements, but still. Boo.
I take back everything I said about positive culture signals at Robinhood. It's enough to make you ask yourself: What would Robin Hood do in this situation?
Overall, there are positive culture signals for the company, but I'm concerned that this position will be stretched too thin to provide the leadership and mentorship Robinhood wants to see, and there's some scope creep I'd ask about as an interviewee.
This is the job description equivalent of that "This is fine" cartoon.
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like they're asking this Director position to do a lot. It almost reads as if they asked ChatGPT for a Director of Support & Ops job description and then didn't whittle it down at all to fit this specific role.
Y'all, the noise I made when I saw "CX Director, MeUndies" in the #jobs channel in ElevateCX. WOOOOOOOOOO. Okay, for real. I can do this. I am a serious professional.
You should do a general internet search for Therapy Brands. The results are...not good, particularly in light of the fuss they make about how awesome they are on their Careers page.
I don't know, y'all; my spidey sense is tingling with this one. It could be nothing, but just...tread very carefully.
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If the job descriptions mentioned tiny little things like compensation and benefits, I might not judge them so harshly, but it doesn't.
There's not a ton here, but what is here points to BINGO: no benefits, no salary transparency, and not-great culture signals.
Yes, I am putting this in Green Means Go despite no salary transparency, only because the hiring location is Europe / Middle East / Africa, which is so broad that it makes giving an actual salary range genuinely difficult, and everything else is just positive signals.
I thought this was probably otherwise okay until we hit the "Personal Characteristics" section, which was just one red flag after another. Not to mention the "What's In It For You?" section contains no actual benefits, and we've got ourselves a BINGO.