TELUS Reviews

Pros

interesting, complex work. good people

Cons

TELUS is a busy environment. Good industry but downside is it is busy and you must take ownership for managing your workload.

Pros

Competitive benefits and incentives
new workstyles - flexible and great work life balance
encourages and nurtures highly creative and aspiring performers

Cons

internal process improvements are slow
too much collaboration required for decisions

Pros

Very good compensation considering no degree required and can get in at a young age. Great benefits regardless of position so long as you're full time.

Cons

Poor management depending on the department. Most managers are not qualified and are promoted based on favoritism. Some great directors and some that are just terrible. Poor shift times and hard to get good shifts without many years experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Students or those with degrees should be offered or shown better direction for opportunities once they have obtained their degree. Some management are in place based solely off of favoritism and many hard workers and those with management qualities are overlooked and stuck moving nowhere.

Pros

challenging projects, met lots of interesting people, good use of work related activities to help apply knowledge, exposure to many fields

Cons

teams are very separated, have to go with the flow of many other teams, lack of recognition for work from superiors

Advice to Senior Management

recognize work more often, build structures to facilitate team building and ability to work with each other's schedules, and reward hard work

Pros

Work life balance is very good.

Cons

Growth is slow for high performance people.

Advice to Senior Management

More performance based recognition

Pros

Good culture, good benefits and perks, good work life balance

Cons

Internal move might not be that easy

Pros

Great benefits! Fast paced always changing roles! I really enjoyed the employees and team spirit. Very active in the community.

Cons

MIddle management not as skilled as upper management in employee engagement. Poor communication creates an environment of distrust between frontline and managers. Sometimes the changes implemented seem to be for the sake of change only.

Pros

One of the better paying employers in the Vancouver area

Cons

Little respect for workers from executives and senior management.

Pros

Relaxed environment, flexible work environment

Cons

No drive; too much administration work to get things down

Advice to Senior Management

cut the administration stuff out of getting stuff done

Pros

- workstyle flexibility
- Great work environment
- Respects its employees equally
- Better than market compensation
- Their fresh Grad program is by far the best way to join a company

Cons

- Lack of motivation to work from office
- Not enough social events
- Can't bank your unused holidays
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Advice to Senior Management

Promote working on Fridays. Like keep free friday lunches or snack so employees are less likely to take fridays off or work from home. Will improve productivity.