American Tower Reviews

Pros

It has a very friendly atmosphere. I loved working with the people there. It is a very flat organization and they respect all their employees. it is a very non hierarchical company.

Cons

the pay is not that great. It is a very sales driven organization and all the other departments are not given that much importance.

Advice to Senior Management

improve the pay scale and start spending more on strategies and how to get new business. it relies a lot in its old customers.

Pros

The company has a great benefits package and the work space environment is comfortable and accommodating. Team members worked well together and it was a healthy interactive atmosphere with little back-biting.

Cons

I have never felt so much pressure to make the 'right' decision all the time. They allow little room for common human error and you are expected to anticipate even the 'unknowns' and have a plan. Every decision seems to be make or break and it creates a tense environment. In dealing with HR I found little compassion for personal circumstances, they react straight out of their manual - "this is what we can do and that is all" .

Pros

People are great
Company is growing

Cons

Always sense of urgency
PMO office and how everyone relates to successful projects still work in progress

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on what is working

Pros

Good benefits
Stable industry
Work life balance is ok

Cons

Working hard and receiving great performance evaluations does not get you a raise.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize hard workers and talent and reward them openly. Promote from within.

Pros

Benefits are good and competitive. Flex time is allowed providing work is performed. Although out of site there is culturally out of mind given the locations in southboro, woburn and atlanta.

Cons

communication problems unlike most places but here there are 'walls' between sites/functions, this is a Sr Mgmt problem.

Advice to Senior Management

Break those barriers down, review IT model/direction for support alignment with both Corp, Woburn and Atlanta Finances.

Pros

Health benefits and stock plans are good. Very stable company even in this economy. Salary and bonus structure is decent.

Cons

no work life balance, very long working hours. career progression is very limited when a position becomes available, they generally hire from outside instead of promoting employees performing well.

Pros

Easy to get in. No prior hard skills needed

Cons

Project Specialists are now called Contract Specialists (As of 2010). I felt I was deceived of the whole Project Management facade. The duties of the Project Coordinators & Project Specialists resemble nothing of real project management. They don't use PM methodology, phases, planning or implementation. The duties are essentially pushing paperwork and profiling tower lease rights which is not transferable to any other industry let alone standard project management

Advice to Senior Management

Stop it with the false facade.

Pros

Salary was very good; Up-to-date on new technology; Relaxed environment; Family friendly place; Lots of encouragement on learning and training;

Cons

Information technology department was very small; Space limitation; no individual cubicles for people. Thats why 2-3 people share the same room for working.

Advice to Senior Management

People should have spacious cubicles or rooms to work; sharing rooms or workplace is not convenient; some senior management are rude to entry-level employees.

Pros

- financially stable company
- company focused on growth and staying current in industry

Cons

- terrible pay, way below market
- for all their talk about "flextime", it is very limited and not at all flexible
- management very out-of-tune with the "little people" and realities of daily work at lower levels
- poor inter-department communication/relationships

Advice to Senior Management

pay more for roles requiring advanced degrees, treat employees with more respect, make flex-time actually mean something, management should practice what they preach (i.e. don't expect lower-level to stay late, but senior management walks out the door at 5pm, etc)

Pros

The company is very customer focused and most employees are helpful and willing to work together to solve problems.

Cons

Strong lack of leadership, bad communication, favoritism, and heavy micromanaging within the lower ranks.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to provide more growth opportunities for talented employees in order to retain them.