American Tower reviews

3.7

76% would recommend to a friend

(822 total reviews)
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Steve Vondran

69% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

American Tower has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 822 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The American Tower employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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822 reviews
4.0
Mar 17, 2015

Currently working at American Tower Corp.

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Pros

Company growing and doing well financially, decent work-life balance, great benefits.

Cons

Career path is not always clearly defined.

1.0
Mar 10, 2015
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Pros

They give yearly $500 reimbursement for Gym/sport activity

Cons

They are cheap, don't even tell you that you need to travel for your job and makes you travel 50% of the time and there are people at director level who tells you that lunch money won't be reimbursed even if it is $5 in total!! The worst part is HR does nothing about that. Very discriminating culture in finance. To make it worst they do not even pay business travel bills after months and months. Horrible experience ever.

4.0
Mar 9, 2015

Middle-management OK, upper-management and HR are ridiculous

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Pros

Fantastic business model -- they'll be around for a long time. Stable company in a fast-paced industry. My immediate supervisor was great. He was approachable, polite, and got things done. He was easy to work with for scheduling time off and didn't have an issue if we had to leave in the middle of the day to go run a personal errand, as long as we got our time in. In short, he treated his subordinates as humans; it was great to be appreciated. Time off: You start at 3 weeks of "flex-time" plus 3 "floating holidays" (due to the "diverse corporate culture and holidays that might not be celebrated in all cultures") so you essentially get 3.5 weeks off. You can borrow up to a week of flex time, but only one week carries over to the next year. After a few years you get a 4th week, and a few more years you get a 5th week off. I think you have to work there for 6 years to get that 5th week and then you've maxed out. Health insurance coverage: some of the best out there. When I was last there, it wasn't too expensive for amazing coverage for a family. This was my biggest regret after leaving. Pay: I was hourly and got as much overtime as I wanted.

Cons

HR is a joke and treats people like little children. Upper management is similar; they have silly fantasies of "teams" (even though everyone works quietly in cubes all day). Many of them don't seem to have any function other than micromanaging subordinates with daily Excel spreadsheets of productivity; they track each employee's production every day (at least on my team). Sick time is rolled into PTO under the guise of "flex time" so if you're sick for 3 weeks out of the year, you don't get any vacation unless you want to borrow flex time. Very flat organization, there's only 5-6 layers of management between the lowest guy and the CEO. Difficult to advance.

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