Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Reviews

Pros

Respect from close management for your life outside of work
Equal opportunity and pay for women
Real team work, facility of exchanges with experienced people

Cons

Constant reorgs going nowhere
Not enough internal promotions as far as management is concerned
Certitude of being different from other Telecom companies in the world when they re not

Advice to Senior Management

Promote locals at decision levels instead of systematically importing technocrats and finance people from Europe . In case you didn't notice Europe is NOT the example to follow at this point.

Pros

Good perks. Good opportunities for promotion. They try so hard to make it a place you could enjoy working at.

Cons

Employee view is polarised. Very much depends on where you work - could make or break you. Too many restructures (3 in past 3 years). Promotion is very much based on who you know and not what you know.

Advice to Senior Management

Please make this restructure the last - for a couple of years at least. It is killing us guys on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder.

Pros

Small enough to provide plenty of opportunities for career development and experience

Cons

A reletively smaller telco in a small country

Pros

Good benefits;
Some reasonably smart people;

Cons

- Lack of vision - Constant reorganisation

Advice to Senior Management

A clear strategy for where the company is headed is missing

Pros

Great work environment
Provides training and growth
Compensate essentially
Top Leadership is pretty good

Cons

Change in the industry has brought about lot of confusion for day-today business.
Top leadership doesn't have support from their reports - lots of long terms holding on to the turf and have their agendas
Promotions to up and coming is always hard as the old crew needs to be promoted based on how they have stayed there - as supposed to their value to the organization or credentials

Advice to Senior Management

Sack some more middle management - long way to go

Pros

very challenging, always changing, fast paced.
If you want something new every day, and don't mind working for the company that NZers love to hate, then Telecom is a great place!

Cons

admitting you work for Telecom opens you up for a torrent of abuse from new people you meet. the business is hugely complicated - it takes at least 6 months before you work out what all the acronyms mean (and new ones arrive every day)

Advice to Senior Management

no point lyingot the shareholders about where the company is headed, man up and be realisitc with your projections - it will make things a lot better for the people down the food chain.

Pros

Can see close up the challenges facing incumbent telco dealing with massive industry and technology change

Cons

Culture of blame, hiding (rather than solving) problems, and highly political manoeuvering, all this generates lots of waste.

Advice to Senior Management

Go and have a look at what is really happening - speak to the folk doing the work - avoid relying solely on the self-serving distorted views of middle management.

Pros

Great people, as one of NZ's biggest companies it attracts good talent and there is sufficient room to progress if you are hungry enough.

Cons

Very negative PR, very complicated business (not the technology side - the business side) although this is being simplified with operational separation

Advice to Senior Management

Don't think Telecom is a larger company than it is, the business can be run simpler and deliver a better return.

Pros

There are great career opportunities across a number of areas and real possibilities to move across the company horizontally as well as vertically.

The company attracts great people - real Kiwis from all walks of life.

Cons

It's a large company and with any large company there is some structure required - some people probably find some of the rules a little overwhelming. You can get lost in it all if you don't stand up for yourself and make your self noticed

Advice to Senior Management

Keep people in touch with the bigger picture and their part in it - communications and engagement are really important