Cbeyond reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(429 total reviews)
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Jim Geiger

66% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

Cbeyond has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 429 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cbeyond employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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429 reviews
5.0
Jun 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work is fast-paced so you are never bored. People are great - they motivate me to get out of bed in the morning:) We have an amazing gym that is fully-managed. We are encouraged to use the gym during working hours, provided we make up the time away from our desks. Cbeyond has also awakened in me a desire to give back to the community by sponsoring days and weeks of service to encourage us "care relentlessly" about our communities.

Cons

Sometimes you have to work longer hours to maintain your sanity when project deadlines arise. It has been said that many times leaders are "building the plane as they are flying it." Sometimes we leap before we look to rush products to Sales.

4.0
Jun 6, 2014

Great Company, Great Opportunity

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is a culture here that we work for our customers first, one another second and shareholders last. When communication is clear and consistent, collaboration can really be fun. Great vision from the CEO and clear plan to succeed. Amazing amount of work and progress can be completed when there is teamwork, leadership and budget in place.

Cons

Some of the Senior Leadership Team tend to preserve information like members of an exclusive country club. At times, the company feels like it's actually ten times larger due to the time it takes for things to take shape. Due mostly to functions that are very thin in some departments (Marketing) and heavy in others (IT).

1.0
May 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a job. Better than not eating at all (almost). Decent offices. Training was good. Good documentation on the services they provide.

Cons

You name it. This is the most awful company to work for. No common sense. Micromanaged to the absolute minute. Selling T1 lines (1.5mbs) in a world of cable Internet (200mbs). I couldn't get another job because practically every recruiter in Atlanta works with them and no one would hire me because it would endanger their contract. Thank goodness a friend of mine got me a direct hire role with his employer. I never got in trouble there. Never written up but I was threatened with it. Constantly. They have their procedures that you follow no matter what or they will fire you. No common sense. One particular issue I fixed without taking additional, unneeded steps and wasting time, only to be threatened with a write up and possibly not going permanent. Didn't matter that the client was fixed and had not called back in and it had been over a month since the call. Just one of many, many situations like this. HR is so clueless that in my exit interview, they were "shocked" when I told them how awful they were and how practically everyone on the floor that I knew felt the same, but were too scared to say anything because they might get a bad name there. I would rather kick puppies for a living than go back. 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. Kicking puppies. Think about that before you consider working here.

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