Hawaiian Telcom Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hawaiian Telcom full-time for less than a year

Pros – Pay, Benefits, reduced internet costs

Cons – Stressful wok environment, not a 9-5 job, expect overtime

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hawaiian Telcom full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – * Too much of free time for fun activities like gossiping and going on 11am runs with co-workers.
* You get to stay in Paradise working for this company..

Cons – Where Do I begin.

* extremely poor and belligerent leadership.
* Business has no sense or idea about technology and are extremely incompetent when defining requirements for IT team
* Every individuals motive in this company is to keep their job safe, so they avoid innovation as much as possible as it upsets senior management and keep everyone's hands tied.
* No proper channeling of work to contract or Full time employees, Most of them get paid top dollar to just laze around and talk stories with colleagues.
* Extremely Poor and callous decision making while hiring full time employees for IT team, most of them don't know jack about anything and are hired just because they are "local", most of them get fired or quit within a year.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hawaiian Telcom full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The benefits of a union employee

Cons – Unorganized
No communication
Lack of leadership.
Understaffed lower to middle management

Advice to Senior Management – Learning to listen to your employees. Learn to lead and not jus manage. A true leader inspires. A true leader could really turn it into a great place to work.

Current Employee – been working at Hawaiian Telcom

Pros – Good benefits, good schedule flexibliity

Cons – poor market leadership, poor commitment to quality, poor employee growth potential

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hawaiian Telcom full-time

Pros – Easy job, plenty of freedom

Cons – Boredom, too much time to kill, insufficient motivation (lack of feedback)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hawaiian Telcom

Pros – Laid back
Benefits are insane... if you're part of the union

Cons – Company is going nowhere
No innovation, everything is outsourced
Employees fool around all day, sucking up resources and providing no value
Managers are arrogant, lazy, paper pushers who will sacrifice their employees for self gain
Young technical employees with talent, drive, and ability to turn the company around are not respected by management
Older employees are resistant to learning and adopting the latest technologies
Career killer, stay away from this company unless you want a cushy job and let all your skills go to rust

Advice to Senior Management – Respect your employees
Innovating is hard, non-technical managers cannot manage technical employees
Flatten out the hierarchical system, there are too many layers of useless management
The majority of managers are incompetent and dragging the company down, fire them
Hire young fresh blood who can innovate, don't keep your lazy old workers who do nothing all day

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hawaiian Telcom

Pros – Union benefits are currently good.

Cons – Management makes bad decisions and terrible communication

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees more!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend