France Telecom Reviews

Pros

Focused on customer
Good ethical practises
Care of employees
Fairly plane hierarchiy

Cons

Lack of career path and development programs
Too much burocracy
Slow to make decisions

Advice to Senior Management

Make governance organs more fluid

Pros

Great benefits, including time off, private healthcare (big for Europe), access to latest mobile devices and global travel.

Cons

1. Limited career growth beyond Director - old boys club revolving around top French schools (under grad)
2. Language can be a barrier sometimes - English/French

Advice to Senior Management

Defensive posturing will only get you so far. You have to innovate - the ROI is great and you will find top talent recruiting for you rather than wanting to leave.

Pros

large company, big projects, international footprint

Cons

glass ceiling when reaching certain level

Pros

Good pay, decent bonus structure, generous perks, overtime opportunities, team culture, generous holiday allowance, flexible working hours, generally good management.

Cons

lack of prospects, strong presence of female based cliques making it difficult to fit in, supervisors often part of cliques leading to favourable treatment, somewhat harsh absence management.

Pros

international work and interested project

Cons

salary is not satisfy to level of job

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Friendly enviroment
Good work life balance

Cons

Very limited growth opportunities
Long term relevance of some teams is unclear

Pros

Everybody's very professional and you work on new technologies in a interesting industry with very good benefits, work, leisure and family time is well balanced

Cons

no work from home and the decision-taking process difficult work objetives and communication across geographic teams/cultures.

Pros

challenging environment, work with top executive.
Everybody's very professional.

Cons

compensation a bit under average for the long hours of work...

Advice to Senior Management

design better compensation packages

Pros

Opportunity to work on new technologies

Cons

no flexible working hours and no work from home, not a good place to work if you commute

Advice to Senior Management

be transparent, recognize the job well done, become employee friendly

Pros

Respect of free time and vacation time

Cons

low salaries compare for the same position with other companies

Advice to Senior Management

Take into consideration real competences of employees