Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,948 total reviews)
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Chris Winfrey

52% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Spectrum has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 18,948 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spectrum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
May 1, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you live in the area, it's easier to get hired at Charter in Rochester because the Mayo has less turnover. The Avaya phone software works if you're taking calls.

Cons

Your time as any manner of phone accessible support representative means expected to spend 99% of your clocked time on the phone with a customer, even if all you are doing is encouraging them to talk. Information does not properly populate from incoming calls to CSG. The implementation is wretched and as a result, customers suffer because techs are forced to make customers wait for inconsistent and generally extensive amounts of time before the customer's information can be pulled up. Proprietary browser applications abound. Call center management is heavy on the practice of allowing people to dismiss themselves with what they call "Voluntary Time Off" which is a great deal of staff metrics crunching that sends hourly employees home when call volume is low and then panics if call volume suddenly ramps up for some reason. People on staff have been censured for taking approved time off and then later had it revoked because the customer service systems do not allow any offline data access (usb/cd/forward to external e-mail/use cell phone) for proof, so the management in charge of the rochester call center is essentially bulletproof legally.

2.0
Apr 29, 2015

Very exhausting

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

401k, benefits, and service discounts

Cons

Ethics Ethics Ethics Ethics Ethics. Honesty.

1.0
Apr 9, 2015

Corporate Stereotype

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay was good. Not great, but well above the minimum I would have accepted. Certain projects have enormous budgets so getting the tools you need is no problem. Other projects not so much.

Cons

Everything that could go wrong in a stereotypical corporate environment goes wrong at Charter. Being coerced into working nights and weekends, unrealistic performance expectations, and an overabundance of both micro managers and neglectful managers. The worst of it though was the politics, every little thing devolves into an inter-team tug of war and everyone's work suffers because of it. Certain people had gentle egos we'd have to tiptoe around, others got kicked around by everyone, some people could take time off "off the books," while others had to adhere to HR's policies. I'd never worked in such a chaotic environment, or felt more unwelcome in a new position.

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