AT&T UK Reviews

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Sometimes co is too big when it comes to local decision making

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Disorganised at times. Management can often experience huge stress and panic at times of demand in the peak periods.

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Difficult to get promotion or move department

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People been in their roles too long, just coasting along. Now I work 'in the real world' I see how the employees take advantage. There is more skiving time than work time. Take time off when they want. Management turn a blind eye. No recognition for employees not in London

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Systems and processes are too long, takes ages to get ordered and delivered.
In US, Global seems to be Mexico rather than true global messages.
Once in sales hard to progress as sales management roles don't come available too often.
Need local infrastructure that they own rather than utilising partners.

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AT&T UK (sales) is not a positive environment to work if you are looking to progress your career. It is VERY political and unfortunately the GTM strategy is floored in every aspect. Management have been in roles so long they have a distorted view of reality and are out of touch with how successful companies win new business. The business model is centered around pull through from the US and the new logo strategy is trying to win MNCs from an account list that is created off the back page of the FT. There is no innovation, no accountability from marketing do generate leads from campaigns to conversion and no pedigree or skill in middle management, just very aggressive and childish means to micromanage people. There is very high turnover of staff as no one even realises that the business is fundamentally broken which is why YoY performance remains flat or negative. It's a 'me to' organisation that predominately resells ISV solutions and is considered tier two/tier three for core services by customers. Not a single new logo has been won in the last year and processes are so painful it's almost a conspiracy that no one wants you to be successful. Unfortunately legacy people are so comfortable and so close to retirement that they are lazy and there is no sense of urgency to act should an opportunity arise. A good simile to describe working at AT&T is trying to wallpaper your house through your letter box. The money is above the industry average but that perk soon wares off once you realise how utterly awful it is working in a pokey little office for which the highlight of peoples week is the fruit basket being delivered on a Wednesday.

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Process driven not innovation. Hard to be motivated over the long term previous of time in this organisation like ATT

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Lengthy/complex processes. Innovation driven but some aspects AT&T are lagging behind the real world. Training restrictions & budget restrictions. Headcount issues & recruiting process needs improvements.

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US based leader ship mindset can interfere with growing regional business, however this is slowly changing

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AT&T is transitioning into a low cost software defined network business which is great longer term, but shorter term that means an impact on where they are sourcing their employee resources. For this reason I could not recommend to a friend, as the availability of jobs in the UK is limited.