Bluehost Reviews

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.

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.

Advice 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!

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

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.

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.

Advice to Management

Company culture needs to be improved, this can be done through facilitating more conversations between various teams/departments.

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.

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.

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! :)