Avaya Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

pay, benefits, training, and location.

Cons

Too much micro-managing,"Big Brother" systems: Nice, Blue Pumpkin . Too many road blocks to do your job.

Advice to Senior Management

As a boss I had several years said "he would tell you what needed to be done and get out of you way and let you do your job."

Pros

They have a lot of offices and transferring is a possibilitiy

Cons

You are expected to work beyond reasonable hours. No perks. No bonuses. No fun.

Advice to Senior Management

Create a better product strategy to stay ahead instead of following the footsteps of competitors.

Pros

-Compensation
-Leading edge company
-Top talent is recognized and rewarded
-Great building architecture
-Great talent
-Nice focus on career path for employees

Cons

-Weak HR department
-Poor decisions about work from home
-Not good at integrating companies
-Focused on concept of "span of control" creating limitations on getting leadership experience

Advice to Senior Management

People are your best asset - and not only those in R&D

Pros

Exposure to quality feature rich products
Being part of a leader in the communications market
Can move to other companies rather easily with skill set.

Cons

Professional demeanor is questioned often by upper management by unnecessary procceses which can get in between the relationship of the company and their customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Re-evaluate what your employees really do and reward the employees that are actually doing the real work. Do what ever you can to keep the real talent in the company around.

Pros

Pay, benefits, and some good people stil here.

Cons

past 5 years, management has gone down hill fast. seems to lack direction, and one group within Company on a different page than another. there seems to be no strong leadership. Used to have the best training , incentives, work environent , now in the worse work environment of my 34 years of working ! will be glad to leave this misery.

Advice to Senior Management

get on the same page

Pros

Core products which are innovative, reliable, and best in breed.
Highly skilled and loyal employees who want to make the customer happy.
Flexibility to work Virtual Office.
Culture which fosters team work and where you have access to industry experts.

Cons

Lack of relevant product and technology training.
Questionable career advancement opportunity.
Poor internal communication.
Senior Management doesn't understand what individual contributors actually do.
Managers so focued on revenue targets that they don't have time to actually manage their employees.
Forced job sharing with low cost off-shore locations creating unnecessary hand-offs and increasing the risk of quality assurance issues.

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of your office and into the field. Your highly skilled and loyal employees are your biggest asset.
Find out what your employees do and the challenges they face daily.
Streamline processes to eliminate unnecessary hand-offs and re-work.
Listen and act upon those endless employee surveys.
Truly align policy and practices to make Avaya an employer of choice.

Pros

We have decent vacation benefits

Cons

No stability
Took away our pension
Some don't realize we have family as well as work
Some are so anxious to move up ladder; they will step on your back after you've broken your back to help them

Advice to Senior Management

Thank you for what you do give and we understand bottom line but we have few benefits

Pros

Avaya is a great place to work from a work - life balance perspective. The benefits are really good. Vacation time is adequate, and health care insurance is fairly inexpensive.

Cons

Typically business case study. Departments in silo's, ridiculous over-management, and terrible communication. Additionally, every group has a different set of metrics.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a more open communication between all levels and groups. We need more transparency, and better leadership. There is a lot of concern over the companies direction.

Pros

Avaya has extraordinary human capital at the lower levels. The camaraderie among engineers is first rate, and the pay is decent.

Cons

Upper management in the Services organization has a level of disregard for the engineers -- the people who actually do the work -- that borders on malice. "Our way or the highway" is the prevailing attitude. Feedback from the lower ranks not only isn't valued, it isn't tolerated.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop trying to destroy the Services organization in the US. The Nortel acquisition has consumed so much of the attention of top management that I don't think they're aware that Services is being gutted.

Pros

Pay and the opportunity to work VO.

Cons

Consistant layoffs to achieve numbers. Too concerned about what Cisco is doing to be innovative.
Sending too many jobs overseas where there is no history of product knowledge to build on. More concerned with the numbers instead of customer or employee satisfaction. Upper management does not communicate well. Every quarter sees a new direction.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your people. Fire your accountants. Innovation will happen if you let it. Don't worry about Cisco, you're product can be better than theirs. Move headquarters from NJ to a place where the work actually gets done.