Rogers Communications Reviews in Toronto, ON Area

Pros

Good work life balance and benefits

Cons

No opportunity for advancement, even for individuals that are recognized as achievers

Pros

Rogers Communications is great organization to work for. Rogers offer many incentives, benefits and opportunity to make lots of money.

Cons

Have to wait over a year or so to apply for different department.

Pros

Its a large company with ambition

Cons

They lose of a lot talented people at Sportsnet due to low salaries

Advice to Senior Management

continue to push forward aggresively

Pros

Huge, benefits and big market that has a lot of potential.
Many different lines of business, including internet, cable and mobile.

Cons

Rogers is too bureaucratic and very political. There are 3 layers of management for every department and sometimes its hard to get things done.
Like any massive company, it takes a while to get simple things done.

Pros

Great benefits such as employee discount, bonus, and health and dental coverage.
A lot of company events, good pay and great place to gain experience.

Cons

Poorly managed department, overload of work with very little support, no work/life balance, once in a position or department, its difficult to move up and out of.
Management doesn't treat employees with respect.
Must stay on a position for a minimum of one year.
High employee turnover rate.
Lays off large number of employees frequently

Advice to Senior Management

If departments were managed properly, people would not want to leave the company. There are few options of advancing within the company.

Pros

Lots of young people and good energy
Leading company in its industry
Nice perks like employee discounts

Cons

A bit bureaucratic
In the wrong team, your prospects for advancement can be limited

Advice to Senior Management

Watch for blockers among managers

Pros

great benefits, good pay, interesting and evolving work. there are lots of social events and the company 'tries'. It misses the mark a little too often

Cons

you can get career trapped easy. Perception goes a long way and can leave you stuck. Hard to move to other parts of the company

Advice to Senior Management

focus on the talent and help it foster. Intelligent people who are your future leaders need to be supported. They are your future talent and will become someone else's talent otherwise

Pros

Lots of young people who can tolerate the administrative chaos

Cons

Overlapping responsibilities
Hard to find a person/team responsible for anything
Administrative chaos (Very bureaucratic)
Incompetent senior management
IT knowledge- base was lost, because of mass firings, specialists leaving
High stress environment
No work-life balance

Pros

- Location, Name, Opportunity, Dynamic, Innovative

Cons

Restructuring, Work Load, Management overloading making it difficult to help employees grow/looking for own opportunities and not aware of own team

Pros

Good benefits
It is possible to do good work if you can work outside of the politics and system

Cons

Strong hierarchical structure
Inefficient management
Tedious and inefficient processes
No recognition of quality

Advice to Senior Management

Provide leadership and vision - over communicate the message!
Send all of your managers on management training. There are lots of project managers pretending To be people managers
Improve your processes. You are delivering at 10% of possible efficiency
Reduce the number of consultants, especially from IBM and Amdocs.
Improve your hiring practices A LOT.
Pay better wages to attract talent. If you pay mediocre wages you get very poor people.