Decent for Coasting, Bad for Ambitious - Senior Systems Design Engineer T-Mobile Employee Review

2.0
Sep 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Does not require technical expertise as vendors and contractors do all the technically difficult tasks If you have a family, and want a good work life balance, you can definitely achieve that depending on the specific team you're in Benefits aren't terrible

Cons

Politics and favoritism around promotions Promotions & Compensation are very low Average Promotion results in ~5-8% salary increase Internal Equity Compensation is way out of alignment Won't pick up marketable skills on the job, will need to study in your free time to extract marketable skills Base Pay is very low and non-competitive for the market Total Cash is low Long Term Incentives are low, but provided

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Pros

Wireless service discount Decent vision insurance Co-workers

Cons

Leadership Scheduling Work/life balance Stress Broken everything - half of the tools and resources don’t work No room to grow your career anymore unless you suck up. If you’re blunt and honest you’ll be an outcast - they’ve fostered an environment where they only want cheerleaders. Constantly changing goal posts Frequent restructuring

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