Excellent benefits, good pay, excellent training. Constantly changing sales compensation metrics, horrible hours. - Retail Sales Representative Verizon Employee Review

3.0
Jan 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

It is often hard to leave Verizon Wireless since the compensation is so good in comparison. You must really work in order to get it hough. Most managers support their staff well. Excellent training and benefits. Competitive compensation. Free work phone, and 50% off your Verizon bill.

Cons

Customers are horrible to you, management is consistantly changing metrics that your performance is judged based on, and compensation structure is always changing. It is a tech company so you must be able to "embrace change". A new key metric comes up every month that you must focus on or you are not performing well. Often metrics that increase compensation are in direct conflict with these "key performance indicators". Hours are horrible and the hours you are expected to work are consistantly changing. Difficult to have any family life as things are never consistant.

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4.0
Jan 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is competitive but you will work very hard for it. Culture is excellent and exhibited and practiced from the top down. Benefits are excellent and cost reasonable. 401k match and profit sharing. Lots of training and professional development opportunities. Can advance if you're willing to relocate.

Cons

Company is trying to transform into what it wants to be beyond a wireless carrier (cloud?, security?, telematics?, wholesaler?, etc) and is struggling with a vision, resources, and org structure to make it a reality. Several re-organizations over last few years so job security has frequently been a question. Often delayed response to competitors caused by management's concern that acting would result in not meeting Wall Street expectations. Not the "happiest" place to work because no result is ever good enough and successes aren't celebrated because the focus is always on the next weekly/monthly/quarterly goal.

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