Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,927 total reviews)
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Chris Winfrey

53% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Spectrum has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 18,927 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.

5.0
Apr 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Company with Employee Focused Policy and Compensation. Free/Discounted Television/Internet offered.

Cons

High Sales Expectations, Company has history of placing certain areas for sale and eliminating positions as the leave. The company also focuses on making customer service and operations jobs centrally located with massive elimination of local jobs.

1.0
Apr 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

well they give you some tools to do your job SOME not all most of the testing equipment dosent work or your giving a hand me down piece of crap have to give poor customer service because they drive the technicians with experience out the door so they can hire new people with no experience so they can pay them a lot lower

Cons

customer service sucks and we take the heat from it Dont have the right equipment to do the job to bad its your fault signal sucks at the tap to bad its your fault told to lie to customers if we cant fix problems tell them its your tv or computer thats bad not our services and all the new guys hired are lazy cutting corners not caring about the customer At one time I took pride in fixing all problems and leaving the customer happy but after taking alot of heat from management for taking to much time at a job IM LOOKING ELSEWHERE for another job when i find it there will be no two week notice stay away unless your lazy and dont care about customers then come on in this job is for you

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