Qwest Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

Skill development opportunity, great perks and flexible working hours.

Cons

Base salary range from ocean to mountain and folks at the ocean level were affected by many lately applied policies.

Advice to Senior Management

Review the base salary for the folks at the ocean level before you lose them.

Pros

Benefits, vacation time earned for tenure.

Cons

Opportunity for growth and salary increases based on individual contributions.

Pros

The work is challenging. Many changes are occurring in the industry impacting our area of knowledge which is BSS-Billing Support Systems.

Cons

Pension and health care plans have changed considerably while I have worked at Qwest.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall, IT management appears focused on the tasks at hand to provide value to the business. Many changes have occurred over the last 5 years to our work area

Pros

Pay...
Also, the people that work their are talented, hard working, and smart (for the most part).

Cons

Resources are Lean...there's not fat left to cut and most people are doing the work of several people...creates a all work and no play environment. Very rarely is there time to step away from your desk to even have lunch.

Pros

inertia of thinking- work there until you find something more advanced

Cons

you can do better that Qwest

Pros

good benefits package including good vacation time

Cons

revolving door in terms of employees/managers
employees are very expendable
no work/life balance
incredibly difficult IT environment..multiple systems that don't interrelate well

Advice to Senior Management

decide on a strategy and then stick with it
value your employees

Pros

The pay is decent and you receive full benefits. I don't have a lot of good things to say about Qwest.

Cons

I don't feel appreciated, they put a 2 year freeze on pay increases, poor senior management, the merger is looking negative for employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Please treat your employees with more respect, don't block them from promotions when they are deserving of one. Give us more tools to work with so our quotas are attainable.

Pros

Great benefits
Great pay
Feedback is listened to and taken into account

Cons

mall hours
no bonuses for past few years

Advice to Senior Management

Keep listening to your employees

Pros

Competitive salaries and benefits; exposure to evolving communications technologies; a large variety of opportunities for professional growth and expansion of technical expertise; work with smart, dedicated group of people.

Cons

Constant cost cutting resulting from large exposure to declining "land line" business; little opportunity for advancement; also, the currently planned merger with CenturyLink is creating quite a bit of uncertainty about the length of time one might stay employed.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work you've done so far. Don't lose sight of shareholder value in your push to earn your merger payouts.

Pros

Benefits and flexibility. Respectful environment (at least in my dept)

Cons

Hope it changes with CenturyLink acquisition but Q has no long term vision of where it belongs in the market. Expends way too much resources and money in markets in which it can't compete such as large global accounts dominated by T and V.

Lack of business discipline and disproportionate power and a compensation system that does not reward profitable revenue leads to poor business decisions and undermines support staff which is not empowered or supported by Sr Management.

Advice to Senior Management

More oversight and accountability in sales channel.
Strategic vision and focus on markets Q can compete in

Discipline. Discipline. Discipline.