One upside, and many downsides - Outside Plant Technician Verizon Employee Review

2.0
Oct 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Despite all the faults of the company, it certainly does pay well and the benefits are also good.

Cons

I'm not even sure where to begin. It's probably the most abusive and hostile management culture someone could possibly work in. Upper-middle management actually impose write-up and disciplinary quotas on supervisors and, under threat of terminating the supervisor, will insist they do anything to meet them. After leaving, I even ran into my former supervisor, who cried and confessed that he did, indeed, steal tools from my truck overnight in order to prevent me from being able to perform my job so he could discipline me and meet his quota. Like I said, the pay and benefits are really the only upsides.

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Pros

Highly collaborative environment, opportunity to do impactful work.

Cons

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4.0
Jan 26, 2015
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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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