AT&T Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(155 total reviews)
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John Stankey

57% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated AT&T with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 155 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. AT&T is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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155 reviews
1.0
Jul 18, 2008
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Pros

None, unless you are planning to retire soon and have no motivation to succeed in your career

Cons

Lack of competency, poor work ethics, very low hiring standards, bureaucracy and politics. It is not important on what you know but whom you know in the company, to get promoted or get a raise. Most of the work gets done by hiring local contractors, who barely have knowledge or the qualifications to do the job. If you can get a job no where else, then you are bound to find one here, which is not a bad thing to bring food to the table.

3.0
Jun 19, 2008
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Pros

I had freedom to learn new things. The management is open and encourages to let developers to explore new technology. If you are a geek person, try to enter the elite architecture team in AT&T lab, where you experiment all the products such as Spring, Hibernate, SOA and etc.

Cons

Job is no longer stable and entry level employees suffer a low salary. It all began in 2003. After AT&T outsourced many projects to oversea development center, management focused on slashing costs. The new initiative goes like this, a project is a software that has a 5-year shelf-life, so we should produce it cheaply and rewrite another version 60 months later. A valid point but wrong approach. Outsource doesn't necessarily lower the cost. Managed wisely, a team of 10 dev and 1 proj mgr in US can be as productive and cost efficient as 30 dev in Bombay or Shanghai and 4 proj mgr spreading around the globe.

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