Vodafone Reviews

Pros

1. Many challenges
2. International environment

Cons

1. Leadership qualities of Exec Mngt limited
2. Internal politics

Advice to Senior Management

Build up a company based on ability to perfrom rather than ability to talk

Pros

working in a leader player in a fast growing and developing business as telco
sharing of deep industry knoledge and capabilites

Cons

limeted oppurtunities for internal growth,
short sighted human resources policies
 repetive and boring process
unfari compnesation structure for the lower clusters

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

- Fantastic for the CV
- Good compensation package
- Global opportunities if you are willing to move your family
- Easy to move between roles

Cons

- Difficult to advance to Director level, regardless of performance
- Far too hierarchical and difficult to get exposure to executives
- Culture becoming more and more cut-throat with people succeeding off the work of others
- Decisions are taken too slow and too many hoops to jump through
- Executive management not always pulling in the same direction

Advice to Senior Management

- Decide an approach and be relentless on execution - there should be no local exceptions if you truly believe the path you are following is the right one
- Employees matter as much as shareholders. Without them you have no company. Stop taking away things that are important to individuals for the sake of saving a bit of money here and there
- You have the opportunity to be a truly inspiring force in the industry - seize it!

Pros

It's huge, so there's opportunity to move around and progress into other areas of the business, or different countries. Lots of very capable people in management and technical roles

Cons

sometimes confusing structure, and basic systems and support wasn't great

Advice to Senior Management

focus on managing individuals and their expectations, and collaborate with relevant areas of the business

Pros

Good work life balance
Company financial stability
International activities and projects

Cons

Too much political games
Poor reward/recognition of staff

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to be more inclusive
Award staff employees

Pros

Turning up to work everyday for Vodafone is a great feeling
You feel you can do almost anything
People friendly and helpful

Cons

Political nightmare between Networks & IT departments
Senior Management unbelievably useless, and bullyish
Pay and bonus is a joke if you are under senior management, (Snr mgmt, get 20% bonus vs 5% for standard mgmt, and also get car allowance + large pay gap)

Advice to Senior Management

Advice needs to go to the directors and chair;
-Please stop re-orgs
-Reduce Band F/E management, they are really holding the company back.
-Reward the Band I/H/G more than the F/E...they are after all the ones doing the work.

Pros

global brand
growth sector
innovation
good to have on your cv

Cons

top management a mess
many many reorganisations means nothing ever gets finished

Advice to Senior Management

Stability, pick a path and a team and give both a chance

Pros

Good training for the beginning of career

Cons

Innovative in technology, not really innovative about products & services - everything always rounds about selling traffic

Pros

Work life balance, pragmatic approach

Cons

Benefits package could be better

Advice to Senior Management

Utilize talent and don't make talent fit existing processes

Pros

Stable job (if you can avoid redundancies). Salary and benefits are decent but not amazing. It's an OK name to have on your CV, certainly well known in the telecoms space.

Cons

The company is too big and decisions take too long to be implemented. There is still a lot of resting on laurels of the past (Rollout of 3G?!) The company is still making a lot of money, so there is not a lot of pressure on people to work hard and make good decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

There are too many deadweight managers hanging around and waiting for pensions. This old school mentality is holding back the future of the company. You need to get rid of those who no longer want to be there and promote the passionate managers (if there are any left!)

There is lots of potential to do exciting things but the employees are not motivated to do these things.