TDS Telecommunications Reviews

Pros

Work/Life Balance. Management. Salary and Commission.

Cons

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Pros

Awesome place to work here

Cons

None I can think of.

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.

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.

Pros

Good management at the top Values diversity Good benefits

Cons

Bonus for lower level employees was not paid

Pros

Growing fast with internet builds

Cons

sometimes a little stuck in the past