Sprint Nextel Reviews

Pros

Atonomy. My bosses were great to work with. My team was amazing!

Cons

When mass cuts are headed down the pipe...it does not matter who you are! Benefits were slashed to zilch!

Pros

Benefits are great and pay is good.

Cons

Schedule changes every week and you must be able to work all shifts.

Advice to Senior Management

The best managers in the companies are the ones that started from the bottom and moved their way up. You can tell that the others just don't understand what it is like in a store.

Pros

-Pay was good
-Benefits
-work/life balance
-good support as far as tools for accomplishing job
-Cell phone plans and discounts for employees

Cons

After the merger there was still what seemed to be a rift and confusion in corporate management.
It has been a few years now so mabye that has ironed itself out. I also had about 3 or 4 websites i had to enter daily work schedule into daily just to account for what i had done.

Pros

It is a fun atmosphere, I believe the company is really turning the corner to be successful once again. I would recommend it

Cons

Eventhough there have been no layoffs in 2011, there is still extreme cost cutting people are doing more with less.

Advice to Senior Management

Start hiring. Provide a clear path to career progression.

Pros

Relaxed Environment and flexible work schedule.

Cons

Retail Hours and working Holidays

Advice to Senior Management

Allow the employees that want to grow and get to promoted the possibility to.

Pros

Employee benefits cover most items despite rising rates
Free phone plan for employee and discounted for family
Quick vacation accrual
Work location flexibility; has embraced mobile

Cons

everything is now done under a microscope due to smaller budgets and more competition
Can be difficult to transition to new department/role

Advice to Senior Management

Good job at turning things around in the past 4 years and being able to stabilize without layoffs during the past 2.
I am proud to work for a company that favors Green initiatives.

Pros

-Great benefits
-Lots of paid time off
-Great pay :)
-Makes it easy to hit your sales goals
-Very understanding if your gonna be a new mother
-Get a lot of hours

Cons

-Customers are not very friendly at times
-Sales goals are tough at times

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up :)

Pros

People, commission , location, hourly rate

Cons

stress , pressure, customers, traffic , phones

Advice to Senior Management

Be easy on sales reps, a lot of things are not our fault

Pros

Free Cell phone, no monthly bill. Discounted plans for friends and family. Other then that nothing really great about this place.

Cons

Having management with no degrees makes it real easy for them to promote friends/family instead of the truly deserving individuals. I had no intentions of making this job a career but felt bad for the one that truly were and were never given a shot to being promoted. I had great relationships with Managers so they really took care of me.

Advice to Senior Management

Make store managers and any positions above that degree required so you can filter the freebies that involve themselves in late night mingling to get promoted or family members. Nepotism is wild at Sprint.

Pros

Very flexible with work/life balance
Some decent mangers who are knowledgeable, but they are hard to find.
Allow to telecommute
Free phone for employees and nice cheap phone and plan for friends and family

Cons

Must buy your own office supplies
Huge amount of bureaucracy to get anything done
Lucky if you can get a raise (due to financial condition of the company)
Poor strategic decisions by upper managment means no cash.

Advice to Senior Management

Start to hold people accountable for their poor decisions. Getting rid of a bunch of non performing Sr guys was a great start. Need to get us back to profitability.