Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,875 total reviews)
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Chris Winfrey

54% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Spectrum has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 18,875 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
Oct 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The compensation is very good, and better than most in the area. Reps start off at $12.00/hr plus commissions, which can range from $25/week if you barely try to $150/week if you put in a lot of effort and are very good. It's especially helpful if you have some sort of sales background. The other benefits are also very good - health/dental/vision, 401k matching, and about 3 weeks of PTO per year.

Cons

The customers are mainly horrible. The work is pretty boring after awhile. Some of the departments have a variety of shifts (4 day work weeks, part-time, second/third shift) and some don't.

1.0
Aug 25, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay, at the time had an agreement with comcast for employee rates on services if not in a charter area.

Cons

Working graveyard shift, home of the 4 hour maintenance phone queues. Sure, I'll meet my sales quotas and try to up-sell every call when 99% of them are calling in pissed because, yet again, their area is down for maintenance from 1am to 5am. Promotion - if you make anywhere near the required numbers on your quality reviews, you're stuck on the phones so you can help your supervisor's team stay out of trouble with the manager. If you suck, you will probably get fired or promoted off the phones. Or maybe you're friends with the management. Mandatory Overtime! I guess it wouldn't be a bad thing if you didn't already have a long commute and other things to do, but most people don't want to work an extra 10 hours every week for 4 months straight. Ordering unhealthy pizza as reimbursement does not make it ok. Division of workforce: You hire people to be in sales, support, retention etc: why don't you let them do their jobs? Every call should not be the same, the customers might as well be talking to (another) robot. Tech support personal were hired for their skills in said tech supporty areas, expecting them to make a sale on every call is overreaching. It seems after the fraud and the stock dropped to sub 1$ amounts, the company lost its mind and kept changing policies to try and wring the customer for every penny, and then when that didn't work it tried to punish its employees for not attempting to rob the customer blind.

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