Verizon Reviews

Pros

Learn new teachnologies, expereince working with big and diverse environment, working experience with off-sore team. good exposure if interseted in telecom field.

Cons

Unnecessary Work just to show that team members are busy, Very odd working hours even in IT, Unnecessary application are maintained. Not well paid

Advice to Senior Management

Pay well, Provide good benefits, Make working hours during week days only, hire productive and efficient people instead hiring friends and family members.

Pros

Competitive pay and benefits
Working with new technologies

Cons

Mandatory overtime without extra pay each week for past 5 years
Executive levels hide from subordinates
Very low morale among employees - constant fear of RIFs (downsizing for years now)
Verizon is VERY UNPATRIOTIC - constantly hiring in India while downsizing in America

Advice to Senior Management

Do what is right and set an example - start downsizing India and upsizing American jobs.

Pros

will pay 100% for college.

Cons

rotating schedule/days off. favortism. no room for advancement.

Pros

Good salary, a good reputation, flexible work schedule. I used to love working for Verizon, but the conditions seem to decline year after year.

Cons

Verizon is too big to be competitive in today's marketplace. We are overpriced, inflexible, and there is little to no chance of a salesperson making their number. Upper management does not have a clue how bad it is.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide updated, relevant training to your salespeople. Make quotas reasonable. Fix the cumbersome service and implementation issues. We can't sell anything if we are not nimble, remain overpriced, and continue to provide horrible service support.

Pros

Good compensation, great brand recognition.

Cons

Old monopolists die hard. Lowell McAdam has a genuinely great vision for the company, but is seriously hamstrung by incompetent, indecisive, ineffective, and backward-looking senior leadership under him. Verizon is squandering a lot of talent by continuing to persist a "yes-man" culture that only works when you have a captive monopoly. In a rapidly-changing, highly-competitive environment, Verizon leadership is responding with panic, chaos, and flashing back to happier times, rather than focusing on, and investing in, its own future.

Advice to Senior Management

Lowell McAdam needs to seriously clean house among all of the business leaders that work for him. VzB and VzT have ineffective, insular "leadership" that is out of touch with both customers and employees. The company doesn't have enough runway to screw something up this badly, and Verizon Wireless revenues can only cover up for so much.

Pros

Salary, benefits, relationship building and overall structure.

Cons

Training was somewhat challenging. On-site training is somewhat difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

revisit training center options rather than onsite training.

Pros

Pay, Benefits, Flexibility, Work Environment, People

Cons

Senior Management is Incompetent, Sales Commission Plan is too complex

Advice to Senior Management

Become more customer focused

Pros

Benifits were the best ive seen. From 401 to bonuses to medical and dental...you mos def could not match it.

Cons

Stress level was the highest i ever had to to with. I felt at times I was like Dr, Phil on ever call.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to listen more to your employees. Remember that they are the ones on the front line assisting our customers every day.

Pros

work at home (dpndt on mgr)

Cons

can find better pay/benefits elsewhere as a mgmt employee. No more pension!

Pros

work life balance, internal oppurtunities, career, job satisfaction, bang for the buck, great benifits, competative salary, good bonus, diverse work force

Cons

internal politics, corporate restructuring, outsourced work, red tape, old school management, lack of communication, cutting benifits year over year, lack of motivation