Lumen reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(7,781 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Lumen has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 7,781 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lumen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
May 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

You can earn a lot of money and don't have to work very hard, although benefits are way below market. If you want to feel smarter than the executives who make every single miniscule decision and where you can get away with doing nothing all day, this is the company for you. A Dilbert dream

Cons

You will never feel like you did anything worthwhile when you return home from work at the end of the day. Processes, programs, strategies are all designed by people who have no experience of execution and impact. I have worked for Big Tech before and have seen how agile and smart they are. Working at CenturyLink is much more akin to how we imagine working for the DMV would be.

3.0
Mar 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people I work with a great, but the company's vision, marketing and unifying principles are lacking which is the result of the Boise NOHD being shut down, but we get to keep our same pay and go back to sales.

Cons

Dealing with anger and upset customers who rightfully so should be upset. The company has terrible marketing, training and as a result of high sales goals is forcing the reps to cram and slam products and services in order to keep their jobs. The company really needs to re-evaluate why the are losing so many employees' and customers'.

4.0
Jul 29, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great work environment. Great Benefits including Vacation, floating holidays. Decent hourly Rate plus daily incentive and monthly commission and bonus plans that are great. CenturyLink has a desire to be ethical, and abide by its valued principals. Supportive Management team. Dress code is relaxed and depending on management can determine the amount of micromanage. My supervisor is great with a very limited amount of micromanagement. No Script (as there is simply no way you could script this position.)

Cons

However, CenturyLink is a Telecommunications COMPANY...that has communication problems. Way too much happening within the company at one time, and the notifications of these changes that directly effect your job are limited and vague with little clarification from "advanced Reps". When centurylink purchased qwest it truly created some tough times and not too mention Senior Management that is in charge of systems and changes have been leaving and taking knowledge and wisdom out the door. CenturyLink is a great employee minded, community involved, and the intention to put the customer 1st. However, with the systems that we are currently operating off of have created several ongoing issues and no direction as to what if any changes can be made to fix the issues we are having not increase calls by being uneducated on how the system works when you make changes. Again, most of this is just a communications issue from top to bottom but a lot of this contains issues that we are just going to work through in order to make us a better company and enhance the customer experience. Little to no room for advancement. Transfers within company are difficult. Management is most of the time out of date as to what is happening on the phone because they have been off the phone for so long. Limited Micromanage. Sales Performance to keep position and sustain some if any job security. Lets focus less on irrelevant projects, invest in business models to implement and maintain financial growth through customer satisfaction not system issues.

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