Save yourself a year or two and look elsewhere. - Technology Consultant Paytronix Employee Review

2.0
11 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The biggest plus about working as a Technology Consultant at Paytronix is the coworkers you'll meet. If you want a career and not just an extension of your college social life, that probably isn't a good enough reason to pick a place to work. Benefits are good, and the starting salary (for someone just out of college) is nice.

Cons

It's hard to know where to start with the cons about Paytronix because the issues really build up over time until they're no longer manageable. The problems start to show right from the beginning - onboarding is complicated because the product has way too many half-baked features. Everything you learn will come with the caveat that nothing quite works the way it's supposed to. Management will rely on other TCs who are already overworked to train you, and when that fails, they'll throw you on the Support Line where you'll field calls from angry customers. Because turnover is so common, you'll probably move on to getting your own accounts pretty quickly, and that might feel good at first! Management will tell you they're impressed with you and give you a bunch of top accounts, but really what they're telling you is that they're strapped for resources and need you to work 60 hours a week without any support or guidance, and certainly without any pay raise. Yes, you will gain good customer support experience. However, you will absolutely not gain any worthwhile technical expertise. If you're looking into this job because you have a background in Computer Science or Engineering, I implore you to look elsewhere - you will not be fulfilled in this position. There is virtually no room for growth after a year of being in your role. If you're lucky, you may be able to transition to the DI team or Product team in a few years, but these positions are few and far between. Similarly, you probably won't want to explore a management role because management gets absolutely no meaningful training. I had 4 different managers in my time at Paytronix. They ranged from being too busy to help with even the simplest question, to being so condescending and unhelpful that I wished they were too busy to check in on me. The attitude boils down to "If you have a problem, it's because you're not working hard enough." Finally, the pay just does not scale with you. After over 2 years of working at Paytronix, and running several of their largest clients, they still listed me as being in an entry-level position to convince me they were paying me fairly. So yes, you'll meet great people and bond with them as you all discuss the toxic workplace you've found yourselves in. You'll be paid a nice starting salary that won't scale with you as you're asked to work more and take on high value clients. You'll gain experience that will be useful when you ultimately regain enough self-worth to decide to leave with everyone else. But no, I cannot recommend working at Paytronix.

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Paytronix Response
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As always, we want to thank you (and all others) for your feedback! It is very much appreciated. 2020-21 has been a year of change for the Paytronix Client Services team, and most of this change was not driven by the Pandemic. Most was by driven feedback from the team and new leadership with a new, outside perspective for what a successful, customer-focus team looks like. Some of the changes that have been implemented in the last 18 months include the following: The introduction of new roles on the team: We have added a formal Project Management Office and project managers to the team. We have also created an Onboarding Specialist role to support our customers in preparing for their implementation project. Additionally, we have created a formal technical support team that includes 3 levels of technical support specialists and engineers. We have expanded that team by 3x since it was initially stood up in Q1 2020. We have expanded our Customer Success Manager role, tripling the size of that team in the last 6 months. Lastly, we are hiring our first Configuration Specialist, a new role to support the Solutions Consultants and Customer Success Managers on day-to-day customer requests. The addition of variable compensation plans: We have added a new, variable compensation plan for all roles in Client Services, which is designed to ensure that all team members understand the top priorities of the department and are compensated for their contribution to achieving our goals. Investing in our systems: We have invested heavily in our systems, including overhauling our Case Management system and Salesforce.com, and we are actively working on a new system for managing the implementations processes. With these new systems, we expect that team’s day-to-day work to be streamlined and to provide data to management to ensure we understand capacity constraints and customer data. (“If you can’t measure it, it’s just one person’s opinion,” as the saying goes.) Changing the hiring profile: Some reviews have talked to the fact that Paytronix has done a lot of hiring right out of college, and while we are still dedicated to recruiting and developing this group of candidates, we recognize the need to get outside perspective from experienced professionals to help CS leadership evolve and grow the practice. We have hired more from this new group in 2020-21 than ever before, and we are looking to these professionals to bring their ideas and experience to the table to help us continue to evolve our frameworks and processes and to share their experiences with folks with fewer years of experiences. These changes open the door for new opportunities. No longer is the CS team made up of a single role, Technology Consultant. Today there are 9 different, non-management roles within Client services when, only 12-18 months ago, there was only 1. The team is growing, and adding Team Leads and Managers is one possible growth path for CS team members. We recognize, though, that not everyone is interested in people management, and that is one reason why we have invested so aggressively in the creation of a Career Lattice with different roles across Implementations, Customer Success, and Support. The Lattice provides team members opportunities to develop new skills and specializations as they grow their careers. It also allows each team member to begin to focus on the aspects of the job that excite them the most, rather than having to be all things to all people, as they have been expected to be in the past. At the end of the day, change is hard and takes time. We recognize that not everyone has truly felt the benefits of these changes yet. We know, though, that those who come along for the ride will benefit greatly, and we will benefit from their efforts, too.

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