Qless Reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)
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Mark Tapling

36% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Qless has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Qless employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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53 reviews
1.0
28 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work from home. Team members are more or less "on the same page" with each other. Really easy to get hired here. They'll accept anyone who has ever touched a computer.

Cons

Extremely unreliable product going through terrible growing pains. Absolutely abysmal team morale. Literally every team member I spoke to and even including management has confided that they are actively looking for new employment. Right now. Constant site outages. Every week seems to start out with telling 50 customers we are "looking into it" when in reality our engineering team has all left (Tim the CTO, Augusto the lead engineer, and now Juliano the acting lead engineer). There is almost no den team left to support this terribly ancient dinosaur code base. Hectic daily onslaught of tickets, emergencies, and "gotta get it done now" requests. Literally the most stressful support engineer position I have ever had... by far. No support team headcount growth as additional sales have come in. Yes, it's just more work for everyone to handle. In my 1.5 years with QLess we're a net loss in team size. They hire sales staff like it's going out of style, however.... Getting my annual bonus as promised in my employment agreement required me to literally "go on strike" until they agreed to pay me for the bonus for which I had met and exceeded every objective. No opportunity for income or career growth. I was told there is no way to get a raise at any point in the future. In fact, the only way to "look better" to management and the CEO is to close tickets faster and therefore close more tickets per day. All that matters is ticket closures. They don't care about quality. They view every ticket the same, whether it was a 5-minute password reset or a 3-week monster ticket. There is no formal training. It is all "trial by fire." They don't provide computer equipment. At all. You have to provide everything and use your own internet service provider, cell phone, Skype account, etc. Cheapskates. There is not an amount of money you could pay me to deal with QLess again. The customers are angry, frustrated, and let down. The staff is way too thin to be effective, with ridiculously high near 100% turnover, while trying to support a terribly buggy and unstable, unreliable SaaS platform that has been surpassed long ago by our competitors. Take the same steps our customers are taking: Run, run away as fast as you can.

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Qless Response
9y
This report is patently false, written by someone who never once visited our offices or met with a QLess employee. Below is a partial list of demonstrable falsehoods: The writer wrote QLess will “accept anyone who has ever touched a computer”. In actuality, QLess’ acceptance rate of engineering applications is more selective than Harvard University, as measured by the number of candidates we go through before we extend an offer. The writer wrote of “constant site outages”. In fact, uptime has been greater than 99.9% for our entire company history, as documented publicly. The writer wrote “no support team headcount growth in 1.5 years”. Then the writer contradicts himself, writing there was a net decrease in team size in that period. In reality, support team headcount doubled in that period. The writer wrote that there is no way to get a raise. Indeed, many of our employees have received raises based on their performance and applicable best practices The writer wrote there is no opportunity for income or career growth. Quite on the contrary, many of our best employees have had demonstrable dramatic career growth since they joined QLess. A salesperson became VP of Sales, a support engineer was promoted twice, one other support engineer was promoted within months of his joining the company, and yet another support engineer was promoted within weeks of her joining the company, to name just four examples. The writer wrote there is no training, yet there is a formal training program and we have an entire team of trainers on staff, which doubled this year. The writer wrote that we don’t provide computer equipment, but we provide computer equipment to every employee who needs any. The writer wrote of near 100% turnover, but we have actually had 3% annual turnover over the life of the company. The writer wrote that customers are fleeing, yet customer retention rate is 99% YTD, location retention rate is 99.7%, and existing customers are expanding their business with us. The writer wrote that “all that matters is ticket closures”, but in fact two support engineers won this year’s contest for an all-expenses-paid trip to Rome to receive the Gold Stevie for the Best Computer Services Company in the world by inventing a new hardware product, not by closing tickets. The writer wrote that QLess’ “SaaS platform got surpassed long ago by our competitors”, but in fact QLess wins two to five times as many RFPs as the every competitor, has beat every competitor for every industry award for the last four years, and our apps have the best ratings in the industry as evidenced by public ratings in Apple and Android stores. No competitor comes even close to what we offer. The writer wrote that QLess “hires sales staff like it’s going out of style”, but there are actually less salespeople than support engineers at QLess, and the sales force size is appropriate for a company of that size in the industry. The writer’s advice to management was to “go out of business”, yet the company grew its customer count by 81% in the last year, the company is doing very well, and the company’s prospects have never looked better. We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished so far at QLess and love our culture and mission of “extending people’s enjoyable lifetime”. This has been widely recognized by the marketplace: QLess has been named the Best Computer Services Company in America for the last four years in a row at the American Business Awards, and the Best Computer Services Company in the world for the last two years in a row at the International Business Awards. If you want to learn about QLess, the best source is undoubtedly our team of Liberators working tirelessly to free the world of waiting lines. Come visit us and learn more!
1.0
22 Aug 2018

Petty is not a good luck on you

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are some really bright, hard-working individuals at the company. How this company secured them I have no idea.

Cons

The CEO is an entitled man-child with no grasp of the realities of his product, its client base, and employees. He will probably see this review and respond to it, and honey, I'm so looking forward to it. Don't mind me - I'm just going to microwave some popcorn.

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Qless Response
7y
Read reviews from current employees and you will see that QLess is clearly a company that the overwhelming majority of its employees --the Liberators-- love. In contrast, people who no longer have the fortune to work here are not as happy. Draw your own conclusions. It's easy for a person terminated whose feelings are hurt to hurl vague insults without any support behind them from the comfort of anonymity. As this reviewer wrote, there are really bright, hard-working individuals at QLess. It is they who have the merit for our multiple-award-winning platform, repeatedly crowned the best small computer service in the world and rated 4.9 out of 5 stars in the Apple app store, for signing on our marquee client base and retaining them at an average revenue retention of ~100%, and for attracting our star-studded employees. As for 'entitled', this company's CEO received no gifts and never felt entitled to anything...he started QLess from his garage and took no salary for years even while paying his employees competitive salaries. Best of luck in your job search, and let me know if I can help.
2.0
23 Aug 2018

Serious struggles

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote work, decent health coverage

Cons

Toxic culture, lack of proper management, high employee turnover.

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Qless Response
7y
Thank you for your feedback. Sorry to hear you believe someone at QLess has acted inappropriately --causing that perception is never our intention. Please contact your manager and/or hr@qless.com so it can be investigated and addressed if your concern is found to be well-founded. With regard to turnover, annual involuntary employee turnover at our company has been 7%, which is 39% lower than the US average. For a mostly bootstrapped company, that's actually really good; it means 93% of our employees choose to keep their jobs with us every year even in an extremely competitive job market. Regarding management, our executive team has decades of successful management experience, and QLess has grown every quarter of our existence, by a median 41% YoY. Our average revenue retention rate is ~100%. Our app is rated 4.9 out of 5 in the Apple store. We have been repeatedly recognized as the Best Small Computer Services Company in America (7x) and in the world (3x). So we can't be doing *everything* wrong. As for culture, this is made by all of us, so if you have ideas on what you'd like to see, by all means step forth, propose it or make it happen!
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