Avaya Employee Reviews about "work from home"

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Small team as of now but growing

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lots of work so plan on working more than 50 hrs a week

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- Some managers attempt to manage with fear, intimidation, and demeaning younger employees. They simply don't know how to be managers. It's quite sad that they can be put in positions of management. And good employees will leave because of it. - With the layoffs and voluntary leave packages, morale is below rock bottom. Company culture was nonexistent in the first place. - Unfair compensation to the sales teams who bring in revenue and know what they're doing. - Many employees completely lack accountability to the point of disbelief- some Account Managers shouldn't be allowed to flip burgers, yet somehow they've managed to stay here for years. These Account Managers literally don't even know what we sell. I'm not talking about being extremely technical here - I literally mean they don't know what type of products and services we sell. - Some young talent brought in don't work - literally. They are never at their desk or doing work, just on vacations collecting paychecks. I've called a coworker at 1pm on a Wednesday and could hear that he was in some sort of bar at the time. Unreal. I ended up doing his work for him. - I've been told directly by some of the most powerful people in the company that TPG/Silverlake are eating up profits big time and are waiting to determine who they will sell the business too. All while Executives mercilessly cut headcount and stretch employees far beyond what is ethical. - Frustrating internal processes that have no reason to be so difficult

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Currently, no Executive Direction. Too many changes and concerns of lack of stability across all levels.

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No career progression and no deals

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Coppell is far from college.So travelling is hectic. But work from home compensates this problem

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Now a days its lacking new and innovative ideas. Too much legacy baggage that they can't get rid of. Salaries are lower than market average. Growth potential is not that good either. Lots of layoffs and projects being moved off shore.

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- no proper forecasting of future technology seems to be done based on which goals should be set

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So many cons... I'd start with a terrible leadership team (CEO and his directs), certainly the worst of all companies I have worked for. Not only they are weak but also they insulate themselves from middle management, do not foster a culture of inclusion and feedback. There are no skip level reviews or formal 1:1s with VPs and above. They always know best. Second, customers are always the last thing taken into consideration when leaders decide product strategy, pricing - no one cares what customers will think about the decisions leadership team takes. Third the culture of fear. Expressing diverging opinions is frequently a career-killer attitude. Fourth, no bonuses, regardless of how well you perform. Bonus is just an illusion... Except for the leadership team who keeps rewarding themselves with loads of retaining bonuses while the general population gets nothing despite their contributions. Fifth, virtual teams. Virtually 100% of individual contributors work remotely so it's impossible to develop connections and accelerate time to market - no one has a minimum sense of urgency across this place (maybe because everyone knows there will be no bonuses anyway). Sixth, terrible reporting systems and lack of understanding of the business. Results run on a monthly basis no one has the pulse of the business during the month. Seventh, it's not because you have relocated to Silicon Valley that you suddenly morphed into a cool tech company. The level of bureaucracy, hierarchies, leadership isolation still make Avaya very much a 200-year old telephony company when it comes to corporate culture. Eighth, too many reorgs just for the asking of reorging. Ninth your technology is old and is being disrupted and your leaders do not want to accept it. Who the hack cares about pbx and ip phones in the days of mobile apps... Seriously... And tenth, the workforce - after years and years of friction only the incompetents who can't find a job anywhere else stayed around, in hopes to cash their checks every Friday... There is no energy left in the people, just a bunch of 50+ yr-old white men hoping they don't get the boot in the next round of layoffs (and believe me, they are coming soon, there's over $1B in debt principal coming due soon).

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No salary increases or bonuses in over 3 years (company has not been profitable in this timespan) Benefits erosion: - no more pre-allocated vacation days (US) - no mobile phone allowance - no internet subsidy (even if working from home full-time) Continuous full-time job cuts - only new hires appear to be temporary 2-year apprenticeships through the GMDP program Short-sighted management - will lay-off employees indiscriminately to make quarterly revenue targets without any thought given to the longer-term consequences (next quarter deliverables, for example), creating a continuous downward revenue spiral.