Bandwidth Reviews

Cons

Low pay. You take a pay cut to come here.

Cons

Management doesn't know what they're doing. You would think by now you would see some growth out of the company but it has become stagnant.

Cons

Fast moving company but not ahead of the game internally. For an agile/disruptive company they still hold to some outdated corporate structures.

Cons

Feel pain as development and engineering is 4-6 years behind the curve.
Teams work in silos with variable forecast of prioritized work.
Teams reinvent the wheel unnecessarily.
Project and task management is all over the place and inconsistent.
Difficult to innovate how work is done.
Work feels rushed all the time and cutting corners.
Don't feel as if professionally invested in.
No avenues to socialize outside of going to gym.
Lack of building space prevents teams from working together or having recreational space.
Got rid of ping pong and foosball because annoyance to management.

Cons

- Your experience at Bandwidth will 100% depend on who your direct supervisor is, and the leadership above them. I worked under 3 different managers, in 2 groups, and only 1 of them of them cared about her team. The other two were only interested in their own careers, and constantly took credit for the work their team members did
- hard work and intelligence are rewarded in some groups, but other groups require blind obedience. I spoke up when unethical and illogical decisions were being made and was constantly written up for insubordination
-if you want a company that rewards clocking in, keeping your head down, and clocking out, this place is for you.
- as other reviews have stated, if you make an enemy in HR or upper management, there is nothing you can do to save yourself
- Bandwidth used to define its own path but is now copying its competitors
- The director I worked under fired or pushed out ~10 employees over the course of 2 years in a group of 8
- NO diversity at Bandwidth. If you aren't a white, wealthy, Christian, conservative, it's hard to succeed.
- David Morken is FANTASTIC, but more and more information is being withheld from him when things happen because he would make the company change for the better, which is expensive, time-consuming, and against the scheming other leaders have

Cons

Wages, amount of PTO not great

Cons

Politics are the name of the game.

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Currently going through what I would term 'growing pains'. Policies are inconsistent and enforced capriciously at times. Getting personal feedback on work development is difficult. Company touts itself as not political, but is VERY political. If you aren't in the right position at the right time and known to the right people, advancing can be extremely difficult.

Cons

Tuition benefits can be better

Cons

Very inexperienced management.
Will not allow overtime, despite saying they will and has tried not to pay the team till people had complained but only when they grouped up.
No accountability for people who do not work, and in multiple cases have gotten promoted.
Management will openly call out people by name and say they will not have good recommendations after they've left in meetings.
Management will promote "friends" despite poor work.
They pay women lowest in the Order Analyst position despite degree or years of work experience of a team of 20.
Very political environment.
Brown nosing will get you far. Not your work.