Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,916 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 18,916 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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1.0
Jul 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free cable. Average to below average benefits compared to other same size companies. 401k at 6% company match

Cons

I really miss Time Warner Cable. I hate this company, they have taken over for over a year now and there is literally not one change that I can say is positive. I started as a field tech for time warner cable and worked my butt of and was making 7 dollars more within a year and half by taking courses. Charter comes in and completely removes that system and instead of topping it at 20.30 after all the courses you get a whopping 18.00 . Their policy changes in routing for field techs was disasterous to say the least you had techs from the south side passing techs from the north side all the time. This led to extremely late jobs i.e. Going to a customers house at 6 pm and their appointment was at 2. Management would close the pool so jobs just kept getting scheduled. This meant that techs now had to stay late after an already ten hour shift. So leaving he house before 7 am to make it at the first job at 8 and staying till 9 or 10 at night. This led to a mass in techs transferring or outright quitting the job. Instead of learning after shooting themselves in the foot as soon as the routers from San Antonio started to get he hang of it after a year they switched it to Dallas and said look we still have one foot to shoot! Their solution to a short supply of techs is not to look at why techs are leaving and fix it. It's to emolument mandatory overtime so now they are working 13-16 hours a day plus having to work on their days off. I transferred at this point to a no overtime desk job doing tech support. This department is awesome great management that we're with Time Warner. With the strict authoritarian could care less about employees morale direction charter directive it has become very strict. Bringing in more authoritative supervisors and now implementing "training" that will allow us to do sales job as well with no extra pay. After watching the destruction of one department by this company it deeply saddens me to have to watch it again.

4.0
Jul 24, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Base pay plus commission for an average agent was around 45k. People call and you try to upsell them on the products. if grandma calls with a TV remote issue, you, as a sales rep, have to now sell her HBO,Cinemax, Penthouse etc.....(lol) Once you learn their archaic system the job was cake.

Cons

Before Spectrum took over TWC was the best but Charter Spectrum ruined everything, Policies are pushy for sales (which makes you money) and sometimes you encounter an issue and your mangers manager says tell the customer "oh well" and move on to sell sell sell!

1.0
Jul 23, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility of hours, the benefits are really great. Free cable, phone, internet. Those are about the only pros to this gig. And at other sales jobs, you won't be constantly undercut on your earnings, so you can just buy your own cable and internet.

Cons

Management, company itself, extreme heat and cold, soul sucking gig, ludicrous sales standards and practices, company always finding ways to pay less. Must sell 10 triple plays (cable, internet, phone) and have them installed per month to 10 different homes or no commission paid at all. They assign you 500 addresses, a tenth are garbage, a fifth are current subscribers, and the rest are the folks you stalk down every month to get them to switch. Meanwhile, the technicians can come in and tick off your customers and you lose the sale, or management drops the ball on things too. Plus, you're going up against the already-HORRIBLE reputation of Charter Spectrum and the lingering stench from Time Warner. So you might get a customer to agree to switch, then they cancel before install because their friends and family warn them the service is terrible. This is not a good gig. It's soul crushing and you're at the mercy of the 500 addresses you're assigned completely willy nilly, upper management who don't care about you as a human, and a company that is always looking for ways to not pay you.

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