Comcast Business: Startup Tone - Marketing Specialist Comcast Employee Review

4.0
May 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best thing about Comcast Business is that sector of the business is relatively new and small compared to the overall Comcast Corporation and more top-of-mind Comcast Xfinity. This means you have the name-recognition, funding, and structure of an established and stable company. Structure means there's organization and hierarchy, if that's your thing. That in turn means the Vice President gets the big big picture vision and meets with directors to share. Directors are told the bigger picture goals, who then pass the overall action item to the managers, who then pass to the individual contributors to figure out together how best to implement...and then you implement. If you don't like the idea of hierarchy or bosses (or the possibility for this structure to lead to micromanaging and political sucking up), this might be tricky. Otherwise, this leads to a well-oiled and effective machine that gets work done. Because the Business sector is so new and small, you also have the 500-or-less employee size feel of a smaller company along with the feeling that you reallly do have the creativity and opportunity to flex outside your job responsibilities and dip into other voluntary projects purely for career growth. If you make the effort, you could theoretically know everyone in your office by sight or name. Senior Leadership is extremely accessible as they are often based out of the office and walking around. Comcast Cares is a good philanthropic initiative.

Cons

The problem is, many of the original or longer-tenured employees don't have that career growth or thought leadership mindset to dip outside their jobs. Much of the mindset is "heads down, I'm going to do the minimal work to secure a paycheck, even if it means doing mediocre work." This attitude and loose practice of integrity makes the "customer experience" push a real dicey one because at the end of the day, many employees are more focused on either making the sales numbers as inflated as possible or about clocking in and clocking out. Leaders are often promoted from within due to the "who you know" or "how long you've been here" versus true managerial knowledge. If you're faced with a leader who doesn't know what she or he is doing and has no true business being a leader of people and of craft...well, can't do anything about that other than watch that person get promoted again in a few years. The company and the overall industry is older, which means slightly old fashioned business practices and ways of management. Expect to play or hear about politics and who knows whom. Inappropriate behaviors and misconduct surrounding the treatments of race, diversity, and gender is a thing here, probably due to the "old boys" culture and nature of it being a more old fashioned industry. Cloud content management and digital tools haven't hit yet, so get used to old fashioned collaboration and file sharing practices. Forget about the tech company benefits you hear about at the Facebooks and Googles of Silicon Valley -- there are no snacks, no flexible work from home options, no unlimited PTO, no fitness reimbursements. If you're a normal human being, you're probably fine without the basketball hoops and free lunches. If you're a millennial looking for a vibrant, enticing culture than you need to look for a better chemistry fit.

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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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