ISPN Reviews

3.0

48% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)
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Jeff Neblett

55% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

ISPN has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The ISPN employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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88 reviews
2.0
23 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The work itself is good and interesting. Even old techs can learn some new tricks here. Speaking and working with customers is almost always a positive experience.

Cons

During the initial interview, they make it sound like you can have everything you would expect out of a job like this after your first 90 days. Room to grow. This is a big lie. There are very competent techs that have been there for years working 40+ hours a week and they are still tech 1. Full-time status with benefits. There is no such thing as full time here. Everyone works 40 (usually more) hours per week, and yet everyone working those hours is considered part-time. How is that even legal? They never fire anyone from this job, they demoralize you into leaving. The turn over rate is like nothing I have ever seen, yet it is justified by the environment. There is literally always a new training class going on. I am convinced half their business model is to get people to quit so they don't end up excelling to the point of actually treating them as full time, and so they don't have to risk paying unemployment. Case in point: there was a particular individual they wanted gone. How did they handle that? They changed his schedule on his day off and then berated him for missing work and being late. He quite two-days later. I could carry on and on, so I'll just say that this is a place where business ethics go to die. If you get on here you best fly under the radar, do a mediocre job, and learn who to avoid.

2.0
1 Jun 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only reason I'll add an extra star is because this can be a place to gain networking experience if you're willing to put in/up with the work. Your schedule can be somewhat flexible. It can be a good entry level job as long as you put up with the cons.

Cons

Oh, the cons: Environment: Well, it's a call center. Small workstations, poorly lit, uncomfortable chairs, and laughably dated computer equipment for a company that deals in tech. The call volume is usually somewhat overwhelming but not without it's slow periods. Provided you've made it through phase 3 training you can browse what you like in your down time. I assume this is to help quell the crushing boredom, both on and off calls. Part of the problem with the hiring of people with no experience is the very real consequence that some of your co-workers will be idiots and terrible at their job. These people will not be fired, they will continue to create work rather than do work. Work: Mind-numbing. If you come in knowing anything about how the internet or networking equipment works, you'll find it mentally painful how stupid about 80% of the people you'll deal with are. The ISPs are mostly small and rural, so there's a lot of people who don't know the difference between a modem and a computer. You'll be expected to walk these people through technical things and read their minds to know what they REALLY mean as opposed to what they're telling you (which is almost always wrong). If you work with the supervisors they're usually OK to deal with, but that's not always the case. Career advancement: It's a small company. Someone has to leave for you to advance. Upward mobility is next to zero. Pay/Benefits: Given that no experience is required, you can't expect the pay to be high. Even given that, it's somewhat low and well below industry standards. Benefits are different. You'll be told that you'll be given full time status after a 3 month probationary period. This is a lie. If you're lucky, you'll get benefits at 6 months. That's if and only if management deems you worthy regardless of how many hours you work. What are the criteria? No one knows, management makes them up as they go along. Benefits include paid holidays, insurance, and earning time off. People can work there for years without these things for no clear reason. Management: Laughable. Micromanagement is rampant. The higher ups are too busy running the place to know what goes on and depends on management to give them the status quo. Management will then lie to the higher ups about how things are going. The supervisors you'll deal with on a daily basis are hit or miss. Some you'll get along with, some you won't. Real leadership is non-existent. Just keep your head down and try to do your job, knowing that eventually you'll be torn into for some nothing little thing. Overall: The company essentially prostitutes itself to ISPs. You'll regularly be asked to do things that have nothing to do with internet support. Why? Because someone is paying them. I'm not sure any request has ever been turned down and if it has it must have been the most ridiculous thing in the world. Most of the end users will either lie to you or act like they know more than you while fumbling through the simplest of tasks. This is all somehow treated as normal.

1.0
5 May 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They'll hire you with absolutely NO exp. You do learn a lot about troubleshooting home internet connections.

Cons

Seriously... Everything is wrong with this job. When I recieved a MUCH better offer after only working there for 3 months, I was verbally BERATED by management. I was told how absolutely worthless I was before working there, and its all because of them that I was able to get my new job... Not the fact that I'm a 4.0 college graduate, or highly knowlegeable in a specific area that has nothing to do with internet troubleshooting... It was the 3 months I spent at ISPN. Riiiiiight. Management is beyond tyrranical. They're downright liars, cheats, scandalous, and mean. They care nothing about you, you are easily replaceable. You are constantly audited for performance, and nit-picked about every detail about your calls. The pay is absolutely horrible. They pay so little because the work takes no intelligence whatsoever. If you don't mind walking retirees through rebooting their modem, or fixing smtp prefs ALL DAY LONG, then this is the job for you... You have to beg and pleade to escalate an issue. The supervisors almost never allow you to escalate unless they themselves are actually busy and don't want to look into your issue. Which I might add is also rare. The call queue is stacked in a way that hammers the newer people fresh out of phase 3 training much more often then the older people. You'll see people that have been there for 4+ years rarely on calls where all the other techs are getting call after call after call. You can work there 40 hours a week but not be considered "full time". So they don't have to provide benefits to those they deem unworthy. And thats only after you've been there 6 months that you would even be considered eligable. Even then you have to ASK to be considered full time, which I might add, you can and most likely will be denied. Its an absolutely twisted company, do not work here, RUN! Run far away! Flipping burgers will provide more satisfaction and less stress.

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