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Found 344 of over 401 reviews
3.8
73% Recommend to a Friend
TDS Telecommunications CEO Jim Butman
80% Approve of CEO

Found 344 of over 401 reviews

3.8
73%
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TDS Telecommunications CEO Jim Butman
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Pros
  • "Good benefits and very flexible during COVID.(in 57 reviews)
  • "Great people in the marketing department and I really like the CEO.(in 31 reviews)
  • "Pay was good.(in 22 reviews)
  • "Good work life balance and ways to move around or up.(in 16 reviews)
  • "Some cool projects and decent amount of good coworkers(in 11 reviews)
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  1. 5.0
    Current Employee, more than 1 year

    Great Job! Great Company!

    Feb 12, 2023 - Direct Sales Representative in Appleton, WI
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Work/Life Balance. Management. Salary and Commission.

    Cons

    Some lack of communication between different branches of the company. And slight miscommunication with contractors.

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  2. 3.0
    Current Employee, more than 5 years

    reckless, cancerous growth with no foundations

    Mar 17, 2023 - Network Specialist in Middleton, WI
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Consistent schedule and some holidays off. Work from home. There is always a lot of work to do (despite supposedly us needing to 'save money' and staffing so low). Days usually go by fast.

    Cons

    Let old systems, procedures, equipment rot for a couple decades. Nothing is even remotely efficient or practical for those who do other things but sit in meetings all day. Instead of growing slowly, scaling up in a careful pace, along with training people up on how to work with these newly implemented architectures and guidelines, we're thrown to the wolves and expected to figure everything out, while reckless expansion and buy-outs take priority. Now they fire people because they gotta get bigger faster, and any of the existing markets get treated terribly, or are abandoned entirely. It seems all exciting for these "new markets" but it is all a mess and you'll see that this was all rushed and for a quick buck.

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  4. 1.0
    Former Employee

    Hypocritical Managers

    Mar 2, 2023 - Anonymous Employee 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Work pace was nice and the perks and benefits were awesome

    Cons

    The local management for Delavan and New Berlin were very hypocritical. They will write you up for swearing in the office. But they have no problem swearing. Or swearing at you in a meeting. I also had a manager point at a sign that said slow and insinuated that I’m slow in the head and that’s fine. But me making a joke that I’m a red headed step child is inappropriate. Managers also won’t come out. But will write you up in a second for not. Managers are power hungry and hypocritical

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  5. 2.0
    Former Employee

    Outsourced jobs / low pay

    Feb 24, 2023 - Sales Associate in Madison, WI
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Work from Home available for some positions

    Cons

    They outsourced jobs to Jamaica and cut compensation for US based operations. No room for advancement. TDS used to be a good local employer, but I would no longer recommend due to how they treat their employees. May be ok to gain experience short term, but I this is not a place to expect to make a career from.

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  6. 1.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    I don’t know

    Mar 3, 2023 - Sales Associate in Spokane, WA
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Nice sales team and manager of this area

    Cons

    They screwed up the timeline. Wouldn’t give new houses expected same quotas making paychecks small and unlivable.

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  7. 4.0
    Former Employee, less than 1 year

    Awesome

    Feb 22, 2023 - Tax Manager in Madison, WI
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
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    Pros

    Awesome place to work here

    Cons

    None I can think of.

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  8. 4.0
    Current Employee

    Good Company

    Jan 16, 2023 - Field Service Technician 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Positive work enviornment. Easy communication with management. Cross team communication is fantastic. All employees are pleasent wih one another.

    Cons

    Pay is very subpar for the skill sets FST's are required to perform in.

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  9. 5.0
    Former Employee, more than 3 years

    Great early/mid career company with good work-life balance!

    Dec 9, 2022 - Sr. Marketing Analyst in Madison, WI
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    I loved working for TDS Telecom. I would join again in a heartbeat if the right opportunity opened up. The quality of people that work there is high with many people staying there for years which means it is easy to build meaningful working relationships with many people genuinely caring for their coworkers. The advancement opportunities were good and the work-life balance is good in the right department. They even do a really good job with making the call-center a fun place to work which is genuinely a feat.

    Cons

    Pay tends to be 5-10% below industry average, but the work environment is great and work-life balance and advancement opportunities are great so overall that is a trade-off I was happy to make. While the executives are genuinely great people who I enjoyed working with, they are overpaid and there are too many of them. They preserve company margin in a kind of a short-sighted cowardly way rather the investing in lucrative ventures with a lower margin despite Ted Carlson (the owner) saying he is happy to do so. The leads to periodic cuts to departments in kind of a "all departments must cut 2% of staff" way. One executive even said if they were to buy TDS Telecom the first thing they would do is lay off all the executives from a financial perspective. I think the executive really need to pull their weight more and have the courage to grow the company the ways it needs to be grown.

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  10. 5.0
    Current Employee, more than 5 years

    Network Specialist

    Jan 19, 2023 - Network Specialist in Madison, WI
    Recommend
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    Pros

    Good management at the top Values diversity Good benefits

    Cons

    Bonus for lower level employees was not paid

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  11. 5.0
    Current Employee

    Great company that is really growing

    Jan 23, 2023 - Manager 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
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    Pros

    Growing fast with internet builds

    Cons

    sometimes a little stuck in the past

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TDS Telecommunications Reviews FAQs

TDS Telecommunications has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 401 reviews left anonymously by employees. 73% of employees would recommend working at TDS Telecommunications to a friend and 65% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -2% over the last 12 months.

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, TDS Telecommunications employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at TDS Telecommunications. This rating has decreased by -3% over the last 12 months.

73% of TDS Telecommunications employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated TDS Telecommunications 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at TDS Telecommunications to be culture, career development, benefits and the cons to be senior leadership, management.

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