Bluehost Reviews
Updated Nov 7, 2019
Pros
"Good pay, good training , good management for the most part" (in 13 reviews)
"Soda Machines, great people, light atmosphere, learning opportunity" (in 10 reviews)
Cons
"Middle management is being yanked about and upper management is clueless" (in 13 reviews)
"Very busy call center at the first of the year" (in 8 reviews)
"All employess are replaceable"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Bluehost full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Bluehost uses opensource software, so most problems can be solved via google search of a solution has been posted.
Cons
Everything is opensource, and the devs are too busy with new projects to fix anything.
Advice to Management
Don't overpromise to customers with words like "unlimited" and care about your employees.
Bluehost2019-11-07- Helpful (2)
"Great with a catch"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Bluehost full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Loved my time at bluehost. They took pretty good care of their people and the team I worked with was amazing. Great flexible and unlimited vacation policy.
Cons
things did change when they were acquired by endurance international. At some point the ceo of endurance decides to lay off virtually everyone in the Utah office. I was among those laid off and that was... rough. When it came down to it endurance would take advantage of and screw over their people when they thought it would benefit them. But the bluehost ceo really tried to take care of us with amazing... severance packages and such.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Care about your people. Do what’s best for them and they’ll do what’s best for you.
Bluehost2019-08-31 - Helpful (3)
"Worst Environment Ever"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Bluehost full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Pay was decent. Benefits were good. Catered lunches. Random trinkets. Occasional remote work.
Cons
Worst management ever! Changing random expectations. Always feel like you might be fired. Random firings. Random quitting! Tries to make everyone become jack-of-all-trades to the point where no one knows anything to any depth. Corporate leadership is changing constantly because they realize the boat is sinking. Stock price keeps dropping. At some point this company will go bust. New (bad) product ideas are... being pushed for development all the time. Developers keep getting yanked from one project to another. Projects being abandoned all the time. Too many band-aids on old projects. Middle management is being yanked about and upper management is clueless. No trust for employees. No training for new employees. No usable documentation. This is easily the worst place I have ever worked and I have worked for over 20 companies. Do not work for these clowns.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Quit. Fire yourselves. You are the problem. Advice to stockholders--fire upper management--all of them. They are causing your poor stock price. Management is lying to its employees. Get rid of them!
Bluehost2019-05-28 - Helpful (1)
"Used to be great"
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I worked at Bluehost full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
The employees are great Lots of free food
Cons
Ownership only cares about bottom line Laid off hundreds of people just so they could leave utah
Advice to Management
Take better care of your employees
Bluehost2019-04-04 "Great place to start"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Bluehost full-time for more than a year
Pros
They don't make you take customers' abuse.
Cons
Way too focused on sales and I watched the company reputation plummet.
Advice to Management
Stop trying to make support technicians sell using shady tactics.
Bluehost2019-02-13- Helpful (1)
"Management needs to define effective product plans and improve company culture"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Bluehost full-time for more than a year
Pros
For some employees, the company offers extensive flexibility and moderate benefits.
Cons
The brand that I worked with was acquired a few year ago by a EIG, which has its pros and cons. To focus on the cons, the future of the brand and its goals are [obviously] at the whim of the larger corporation. This results in a level of ambivalence amongst the project managers of the brand since their input appears to have reduced steering power; essentially, some of their input can be found as only suggestions and... the direction of the product they are assigned to is very minimal. Second, another toxic behavior the company [unofficially] endorses is the hard separation of departments. This leads to many teams becoming lost on how to achieve the companies’ goal. Consequently, the obstruction of communication results in a “silenced” culture where none of the teams and their employees communicate with each other. Third, the dev team is forced to utilized a deprecated coding language that lacks support from the original creators. This results in a comically large amount of technical and hiring conflicts (since they have to hire devs who know this language or can "quickly" learn it). Only apply to a software position here if you wish to upkeep a monolith. Fourth, the employees in the dev/qa/marketing/support side appear to be ambivalent/unmotivated of the products they are working on, specifically, no one appears really enthusiastic to create and manage the tasks they are assigned to. This behavior regularly drags down the atmosphere of the office and team moral. Fifth, since the reorganization that occurred within February of 2017. Several brands were collapsed into four pillar brands that needed to be focused on. As a result, many dev teams were redirected to work on the aforementioned products/brands without contest. This resulted in a mass exodus of dev team members which hurt team moral and productivity.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Company culture needs to be improved, this can be done through facilitating more conversations between various teams/departments.
Bluehost2019-01-21 - Helpful (1)
"It's better to walk away."
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Bluehost full-time
Pros
This is a tech company that should ride off into the sunset. In the beginning the perks and joy was great. The past is the best part of this company.
Cons
Management and bro culture. It's tricky to be a company when the mother ship calling the shots is in a different state.
Advice to Management
Pause and think, and be able to articulate the rationale as to why choices are being made.
Bluehost2019-01-02 "Web Advisor"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Bluehost full-time for more than a year
Pros
I loved how this place kick started my into my technical career. The people were great, it was tight knit, and everyone always wanted to help each other out to collectively be better.
Cons
There was always poor communication between upper-management, management, and the lowest level. That and they decidedly laid off 500+ destroying the awesome employee dynamic they had.
Advice to Management
Keep employees as a focus, and don't treat them as expendable. You can teach the skills, but you can't teach someone to have a good personality.
Bluehost2018-09-04"Bad growths"
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Doesn't RecommendDisapproves of CEOI worked at Bluehost for more than 3 years
Pros
Good location (Orem offices), friendly environment
Cons
The growth into becoming a public company created big issues, Bluehost lost a lot of its previous good-culture and EIG’s non-friendly culture and agenda took over.
Bluehost2018-08-31"Yesterday..."
StarStarStarStarStarNegative OutlookI worked at Bluehost full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
All my troubles seemed so far away, now i need the old Bluehost to come back to stay. Oh I believe in yesterday... :)
Cons
They got bought out by a corporation who cares more about profits than they do about customers.
Advice to Management
Rally employees and buy the company back. Make it a privately held company again! :)
Bluehost2018-07-12
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