Indiscriminate downsizing (or right sizing?) - Network Engineer IV Comcast Employee Review

4.0
Oct 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Comcast has generally offered fairly competitive salaries and bonus structures. Their paid time off & benefits are very good, if not excellent.

Cons

Comcast's National organizations have underwent 4 years of lay-offs with many of those positions being off-shored to CIEC (Comcast India Engineering Center). They have recently announced the elimination of their Divisions. This will involve further reduction in workforce; the extent of that reduction is yet to be determined. National/HQ is very KPI & metrics driven. While individual people leaders in National/HQ organizations may promote work-life balance for their team, it is not a common sentiment throughout the company. The ill-fated Divisions have been more aligned with a people-first culture, but that will be going away soon. The downsizing within National/HQ was not done with anything like a 9-box talent grid. They simply laid off swathes of individuals, and entire business units in some cases, with seemingly no regard to how that work would be done. I witnessed an Engineering group & Operations group--focused on one particular product/service--being laid off many months before the off-shore workforce was stood up to takeover those functions.

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5.0
Feb 28, 2015
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Pros

Working at Comcast has given me the opportunity to develop myself; take the time to grow and learn, and that was really important to me during the time in my life when I joined the company. If you have the drive and ambition, there are a ton of ways in which you can grow into a leader if that's what you want to be. I took advantage of the continued education benefit and am finishing my masters degree now... I also joined a couple of the employee resource groups which offer seminars and networking events that support your professional profile. Listen, I'm not a total nerd. The point of my post is that this isn't a company you join and just stay stale within. They encourage your growth, but it's up to you to make it happen. Not only this - it's pretty exciting. We're busy and we have big jobs to do. My salary is in the top percentile for my industry but not only this, I again get the continued education (which is ~$6K/year) plus free cable/internet, top health care benefits and a truly balanced lifestyle - which is rarely the case within the Tech industry.

Cons

Telling people you work at Comcast triggers 2 typical responses: 1) A big hatred rant on customer service 2) A how do I get my foot in the door? The reputation of the company is difficult, but the style of the company is to stay humble - I've never seen the company defend themselves against the harmful and discrediting news that exists. I personally think they should defend themselves a little more - they are between a rock and a hard place in many instances of service. I personally experienced visiting someone's home where the issues they were having with their connection was due to a tree root growing into the cable lines which had been their for over 20 years. Things like that cannot be diagnosed over a phone call. It's hard work in the field for sure. Being a part of the corporate side sometimes we're too disconnected from what's happening on the frontline. So I think the size of the organization comes with its complications, but again if you're a working professional looking for an exciting, robust and sexy career, you can comfortably have it here.

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