Growth is extremely stifled. - Applications Support Engineer Comcast Employee Review

2.0
Dec 10, 2014
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Pros

ThePlatform is a small company with what they would call a flat architecture. With only about 300 employees everyone knows each other and works together, ideally. Benefits come down from Comcast so you get things like half decent medical/dental/vision and cheap internet/tv/phone. If you enjoy beer and wine thePlatform always has some on site and perhaps even cold. For more hard alcohol there is a meeting in a Senior's office every friday but you must be this tall to enter.

Cons

The truth is thePlatform's architecture is not flat and there is a lot of glass ceilings for everyone. Many people leave for a place that offers more opportunities. The work environment can be fairly hostile at times. Most the Senior Management starts drinking around 4:00 pm on Friday right next to the support room so while taking calls from customers who need support you have a loud bunch of management laughing and telling jokes in the background. As support you work 10 hour days on some shifts and those shifts usually go well into the night. Multiple occasions I had to deal with employees that had gotten drunk at a bar downtown and would come back to the office to just "hang out". Some might see this as a pro but when you are trying to work you don't care about taking pictures for people. For support the training lasts about 2-3 months then you are pushed onto graveyard for about 2 weeks of training 1 on 1 with the person you are replacing from graveyard (they go to days) and after that it's all on you. Tons of time for training and yet the system is so obfuscated that many people never picked up half of it by the time they left thePlatform. With my time at thePlatform the person I trained on graveyards fell asleep every night for 2 weeks. When it was time to give my review to the management I fully explained that if an issue happened they would probably be asleep. The management shrugged it off and allowed him to go on graves by himself. Our bonuses were affected by his performance.

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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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