Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,967 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 18,967 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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19K reviews
2.0
Jun 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Job is simple. The people are chill. There is lots of opportunity for growth because the company is growing. However title does not match pay.

Cons

The pay is utter trash. Communication from upper management is is lacking. The systems here are primitive. They lack function/Ability to do the most simple task. Everything is a task or rewind back to early 2000's. Compensation is lacking basing your pay off yield is a set up for failure. Management will make less than sales specialist. Our goals are set differently thus there is little to no way for management to be successful unless you are working in a small store with low traffic with killer sales reps. This is the only way. reps are paid to the number (so they will take as many customers as possible) Management is paid to the yield so if they blow through a lot of customers hit their number, your yield maybe low and you're not getting paid. we have to coach people according to a way they are not being paid. So essentially you get screwed on commission. The math is not mathing

1.0
Jun 5, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can potentially sometimes make an okay commission check if you cut corners and lie to customers.

Cons

You will be micromanaged down to the second by computer. You will have to lie to and con customers. Somedays, you will not receive an actual sales call, but will be held accountable for a low performing day. This is a revolving door job. Very strong people who normally wouldn't, cry here daily. I could go on and on but I am sure you get the idea. If you are new to the role here and looking up reviews to see if it gets better, it will not. Move on and don't look back.

3.0
May 1, 2022

Not true to their word

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good starting pay I went from $18 to $26 per hour in less than 10 months of working there (must do books NCTI or SCTI to progress and get 10% raises each time) get a cert out of it. Company van to take home. If have a decent sup / team get all the tools you need and help for jobs. If you meet or go above "Spectrum metrics" left alone in the field to do job for most parts. I see a lot of bad reviews about meeting metrics its not impossible just lazy or incompetent techs REALLY, ranked from 1-5 tiers I never fell below a 4 and 5 is the highest. If you understand the basics of cable and not lazy will do fine TRUST. Though CSR make TCs for customers that don't even know anything about their services those are the hardest job nothing wrong just people that don't understand the internet. Very good benefits 401k matches 6% and also company adds addition 3% of your salary at the end of the year. Set schedule either 4 10s or 5 8s. Lots of OT during spring and summer months. Best PTO around. All uniforms paid for shirts, pants, boots, jackets, sweaters, hat, beanies, and more.

Cons

They say they promote if you do your books and have good scorecards, thats ALL LIES. Mostly based off good ole buddy system or lazy incompetent techs who been there for awhile. Finished all progression before first year there, at one year per company policy to promote to higher position or department applied and never even looked at or considered. Instead techs who are "bros" with management or incompetent/ lazy techs who been there for years finally decide to do books and progress get the positions and promote to Maintenance, TQA, Business, or Enterprise. Never get the correct amount of equipment for jobs when doing full installs, will be chasing other techs on team or back to shop for modems or routers. Which makes jobs take longer even with the most simplest jobs. Routing is horrible somedays. An example is first two job could be close by and then third job comes around having you drive 40 plus miles through downtown traffic. Jobs last minute dispatchers will manually give you last second jobs close to end of your shift not seeing your about to clock out for your shift. Or checking even if your close by that job and they have a full pin point map of every tech in the area. It is true form reviews constant policy changes about what metrics your graded on for monthly bonus and adding checklist or chasing different green check marks. Sometime monthly, weekly, daily, or in the middle of a workday policy change comes down. Weekly meeting that is pointless, all it is management talking about say topics every week no changes to topics. Like just send it over an email and not waste time and more jobs can get done.

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