Comcast Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

4.1

100% would recommend to a friend

(24 total reviews)
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Brian L. Roberts

100% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer II employees have rated Comcast with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 24 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer II professionals have an excellent working experience there. Comcast is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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24 reviews
4.0
Jun 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

1. Great work life balance(Comcast Silicon Valley) 2. Smart people to work with (Comcast Silicon Valley) 3. Free Internet and 90%+ discount cable

Cons

1. The headquarter at Philadelphia is filled with thousands of contractors, some contractors provided by Tata or Infosys are not qualified for the job but still got hired. 2. Business people have the power to make decisions, which is not good for engineers. 3. Team coordination is bad

4.0
Oct 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

From many whom I have spoken with, we all agree that Comcast treats their employees very well. The salary is competitive and the potential for growth exists within Comcast. Additionally compared to many other tech corporation, Comcast has probably one of the best work/life balance. While there are times where I worked more than a lot more than 40 hours in a week, those are rare occasions (More dependent on which team you work in). For the most part, I found myself averaging somewhere between 40-45 work hours.

Cons

As with any large corporation, communication between teams can be difficult. It can take an exorbitant amount of time to get something, which could be considered trivial, done. It's not true for all teams, but poor inter-team communication seems to be the status quo.

4.0
Mar 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are great. Excellent health, dental and vision. Great PTO. Moved to casual dress code in the middle of my time there so that was a big bonus. I was fortunate to work for a few different managers that were generally good to work for --- one of them eventually entered the political battles (which I speak about in the cons section).

Cons

Not every manager is worth working for. Some will demand that you work crazy hours. Others are much more reasonable. Also, the politics is not pleasant. Once managers reach the Director level, the politics can get ugly because there are so few VP slots to move up to. Many great employees were driven out or laid off due to these political battles internally. Some VP had the bright idea to offshore a lot of software development. Not only will not go well for the company, lots of folks got laid off. Comcast will regret the loss of this talent in 305 years when they bring most of that work back in-house.

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