Lumen reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(7,785 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Lumen has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 7,785 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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1.0
May 8, 2015

CenturyLink Cloud

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting product. Some well-meaning employees but not enough to overtake the bad apples.

Cons

Arrogant, mean-spirited, contentious environment shows in the company's performance.

2.0
Apr 27, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Started off with good training but like fire hose drinking. Nice to travel to Denver and Salt Lake City for training and testing. Must certify on products within 3 months. Great portfolio: voice, data, internet, cloud services and collocation offerings.

Cons

Positivity wore off within 6 months. Sales people were not able to turn expected sales and hit quotas. Reputation in the Vegas market isn't good for this company. Lots of barriers to overcome in spite of television advertisements for residential gig fiber. Sales people going after same accounts. Internal conflicts. Installations projected 90 - 120 days. Some people are still waiting after 6 months. Low morale.

1.0
Apr 6, 2015

Oh. My. God.

Recommend
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Pros

Barely have to work because nobody can tell if you're working or not. Great job to recuperate from physical illness, travel extensively or generally not care.

Cons

You may actually enjoy performing and succeeding in which case you'll be disappointed here. I was shocked when I started here. Mediocre to poor performance is not only tolerated and expected but rewarded. There is ZERO accountability for screw-ups, failing to do your job, doing your job wrong, not responding to email/voice-mail or for being a terrible employee and person in general. Everyone seems to tip toe around everyone else's egos instead of insisting on some basic level of performance. If you like processes and systems that you need a degree in quantum physics to manage, than you'll be elated. I feel like I'm working at a company that got stuck in a time warp sometime in the 1970s. We don't seem to use our own products. I still have a fax machine in my office. I hadn't even seen a fax machine in 10 years. Absolutely nothing goes right here. Orders are keyed wrong, orders are implemented incorrectly and no one seems to know what the hell is going on. Only 2 people in the entire company actually knows how to calculate commission compensation - neither of the two are actual sales people. I once tried to tackle this and after two days, I decided my time was better spent filing the dead skin off my feet. I'm pretty sure sales employees would win a class-action law-suit if the company were sued for commission fraud. I no longer even really hope to get paid for my sales. You've won CTL - congratulations. I cannot get correct pricing from offer management or contracts that say what I've asked for them to say. CenturyLink assumes account managers are also contract attorneys. If anything is missing or inaccurate, the AM is held responsible. The Guiding Principals sound nice on paper but I don't see them implemented here. Culture is bad and moral is worse. Pay for sales is sad. I think the company believes that if they tell us we make good money, we'll believe it too. Note to CTL - we know we're under paid. We are probably too busy traveling, recouping from some illness or generally not caring to care for now. Another note to CTL - this "transition" could not be going worse. Please stop congratulating yourselves on conference calls. I'm not someone who likes to slide - I like to win. I just don't believe I can win here so for now, I slide.

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