Clearwire Reviews

Pros

Mostly competent management, but many changes in the senior management over the last 18 months. Interesting technology in a fast moving industry. With AT&T / T-Mobile merger put to rest, Clearwire may emerge as the longer term winner with its increasingly valuable spectrum holdings in most US major markets.

Cons

Financial belt tightening has meant many layoffs and voluntary terms, as people look or something more secure. Lost primo office space in Carillon Point and moved to more industrial type setting in Bellevue.

Advice to Senior Management

Spread the benefits, including stock and bonuses, to a broader range of employees. Reward those who have toughed it out, with some tangible financial rewards. Keep information coming, including the bad news and what people can do to make the company moving forward.

Pros

Cool tech, good money, perks like laptops etc

Cons

offices are shutdown after launch.

Advice to Senior Management

Churn and burn baby.

Pros

Steady hours and friendly tech support friends around

Cons

Unorganized and changes were made every other day alot of material to cover and too many changes.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

The only real Pro to working at Clearwire was,when the group(Sprint) transitioned over to Clearwire.Most of team came along.

Cons

Lack of direction by upper management and that was quite evident by all of the former Sprint employees left Clearwire within 2 years or sooner.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to manage people and not numbers!

Pros

The benefits that were offered were really good. 401k matching was done and there were many types of life insurance options to choose from.

Cons

There was a poor work/life balance. There were times that I was working ALL DAY. I spent very little time with my wife and children and wasn't able to volunteer at my church.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on having a better work/life balance. Make allowances for days off due to sickness.

Pros

Enjoyed my coworkers, job duties and overall energy.

Cons

Expected to work 6 day work weeks, no home/work life balance. Unfortunately large scale layoff's happen often.

Advice to Senior Management

Before making rash decisions, take time to see if the decision made is a good one.

Pros

Company did permit the local markets to drive their own destiny's, job was challenging and provided the satisfaction of achieving results in the deployment.

Cons

Biggest was the ever changing on again, off again status of market goals in terms of whether a market was able to be completed.

Advice to Senior Management

If the build plan is ever re-started management should place more value in the input that the local market employees can offer in terms of expectations for timelines.

Pros

Benefits are ok and sad but that's it.

Cons

If you hire in as a MSR that will be as good as it gets very few grow in the industry. The only people promoted is with the Good OLE Boy system! Inexperience, non dedicated employee's get promoted. The job changed continuesly and the door was a revolving door. I am currently detoxing from the 3+ years I was with Clear/Clearwire and glad I got to leave with a severance package while there is still money to be had!! The only thing consistant with this company is the inconsistanty! Look at the reviews on this site and that will be the only thing consistant with the company on the way it is run.

Advice to Senior Management

When I interviewed for a position before I was laid off the management didn't look at my past performance on the 222 tracker and trainings overall %. They choose a canidate in their local office with less deidcation and experience. (see how far that will get you) Also, many times as a internal canidate you are not even given the courtesy of a interview!

Pros

Honestly, the only benefit of working at Clearwire was the fact i was able to make a lasting relationship even after i left with the rest of my team.

Cons

There are many reasons why one should steer clear of this employeer. To name a few are, very low pay compaired to other companies in the industry, the lack of leadership and communication, the lack of professional growth, and the increasing number of layoffs due to bad finances and upper management inabilities.

Advice to Senior Management

I believe the management team in corporate needs to be purged. New idea's, business practices,attitude, and general knowledge of the business i believe is the only way to change the face of the company.

Pros

The company has excellent training, and gave the FSR team broad access to company materials. Compensation was decent

Cons

1. Clear eliminated the entire FSR team nationally in 2010 to save money. This is a shame, because the Honolulu team was meeting its goals. (Although the department may return with LTE deployment.)
2. We used our mobile phones to contact customers. This was awful, as customers chose to call us for tech support as opposed to the toll-free number, leading to numerous phone calls at all hours of the night. We would have traded the free Clear subscription for a company mobile phone any day.