HostGator.com reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(496 total reviews)

Suhaib Zaheer

9% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

HostGator.com has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HostGator.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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496 reviews
4.0
Feb 24, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Wide variety of subjects to learn with education classes on each. Plenty of places to ask for questions about the technology, company specific setups and utilities, and of course the freedom to use Google and your brain to find a solution. Lots of bonuses like massages, free lunches, benefits and flexible hours. There are a variety of specialized areas and they do well on encouraging you to find where you want to go and providing tools to help. They listen to feed back very well, and very quickly. I asked about flow charts so I could better understand the overall view of how the systems work together and by the end of the week there were posters around the office with a few different flow charts on the different parts. There are also a variety of internal use sites, such as the employee suggestion box. Each post is available to the company, with the option to post anonymously. Votes can then be cast or changed at anytime, with comments back and forth with other employees as well as management. More so that this, they actually use this to improve the company, inside and out.

Cons

They base a lot of your worth on customer feedback, but do not work to ensure that it is fair. To specify, such as when an overseas customer who believes that a 1 out of 10 is the best rating you can give, and says so in their email, you still get docked with a bad rating. This then hurts bonuses, and is only mentioned because this has not changed since I've worked there. Almost two years now.

3.0
Feb 16, 2013

It's ok

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Information Experience Free food is nice Coworkers were great My department was excellent There are very intelligent people working there

Cons

Pay is terrible Management is a mess Ownership change HR is the worst I've ever dealt with no real experience minus the head whom is in Austin Restrooms are terrible Location isn't the best lots of traffic and TONS of hobos and hookers CEO has been a problem for a while now he has no experience in high level management

1.0
Feb 14, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You will learn a lot about basic web hosting, if you didn't already. Ehh free coffee and free "lunch" I put in quotes as sometimes it may not be lunch that you would touch. Gym and good break room.

Cons

This is not a career by any means if you are a Jr. Admin unless you know people already there and tangle with them and swallow their s*** Not an honest company when it comes to customers. Unless the customers complains to hell. Up selling and half a** trained people make it a b*tch to work for. For instance some people don't even know what Ajax is. Half ass people with half ass training. We do Google for you and maybe a bit more - like creating a ticket for your issue when can't find an answer on Google. Good if you want a temp job while finding something else in the tech industry, because trust me you will want to. Your quota and numbers will matter over actually helping any customer out. Seems cool at first, but the perks are there just to lure in idiots, it seems. Basically, the company is a whole facade of "cool". This is economy web hosting with economy compensation. Avoid if you can.

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