Verizon Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Verizon full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – a lot of project opportunities

Cons – stressful environment. Poor work life balance in certain departments

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Verizon

Pros – pay and benefits, good people

Cons – continued periods away from home

Advice to Senior Management – None

Current Employee – been working at Verizon as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Verizon has excellent career opportunities for employees to advance as they gain experience. Additionally, they have an industry leading benefits plan.

Cons – None, Verizon is excellent for anyone that enjoys working in a large corporate environment.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Verizon full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – It's a structured place with procedures and policies that if followed, will make your life comfortable

Cons – lack of communication between cross functional offices.

Advice to Senior Management – Appreciate that Field technician are also intelligent as opposed to the impression of being a dummy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Verizon full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great pay, great benefits, no stress,

Cons – you are just a nimber, no job security

Advice to Senior Management – nothing its not their fault

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Verizon full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great place to learn if in challenging group

Cons – constant small layoffs and outsourcing to Manila,Philipines and India

Advice to Senior Management – half my immediate managers were great, half were inexperienced or bad, senior managers and up were nearly always great people to work with

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Verizon full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – pay is very good, and has good benefits

Cons – they dont care one bit about their employees. You are just a number.

Advice to Senior Management – be more employee friendly.. such as being flexible with time off

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Verizon full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Excellent training, lots of ability for lateral moves

Cons – always restructuring for process improvements without understanding the impact to the overall business and customers. chooses to RIF instead of utilizing existing talents. concentrates on upper tier customers putting all others at risk.

Advice to Senior Management – HR management should actively seek to redeploy existing long term talent (which has been highly trained at corporate expense) instead of allowing them to be RIF'ed

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Verizon full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Excellent Benefits, Great Pay, Excellent Work Life balance

Cons – Attendance rules are so stressful, ACD system, managers are not knowledgeable.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop hiring each other, and let your reps do the job so they know the customers best...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Verizon

Pros – Good company to work for.

Cons – Too much turmoil caused by constant layoffs.