Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,919 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 18,919 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
1.0
Apr 18, 2022

This Job Was The Worst

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, discounts, decent pay, VTO (I abused VTO more and more as time went on. I couldn't stand being in that call center.) And there is a very little chance you will ever receive any kind of promotion. Work/life balance? What's that? Never heard of it.

Cons

I genuinely hated every second working in that call center.

1.0
Mar 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Though rare, there are small segments of engineers with great credentials and ethics. These are mostly former Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse Networks people.

Cons

* Abusive and ineffectual leadership * Merged and migrated workforce resulted in a large reduction in talent * Limited opportunities to work with real technology * Vast majority of employees realize this skeletal corporation has no real reason to exist. Nothing innovative or even above average about what Spectrum does.

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Spectrum Response
4y
We appreciate the effort you took to share your experience with us. It really makes a difference when you feel supported by your team and leadership. The experience you describe is not in keeping with our company values and does not comply with our policies for workplace behavior. We have taken your comments to our leadership team, and thank you for helping us better understand how to support our future employees.
2.0
Jan 6, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

$18 starting wage with ability to make $1k-$2k bonuses per month, sometimes even more if you’re good at the job. No AHT requirement

Cons

Not a single person there (except maybe the trainers - shout out to Kim) care about you. Every other member of management treat you like a robot. Don’t you dare have a family emergency because they will guilt you and treat you like crap when you have to take off time for it. Very hard metrics to meet especially with a job designed to fail. They expect you to try to sell mobile service to customers calling in to cancel their tv/internet services (how does that make any sense?) Customers are angry and mean because the companies prices are outrageous. You’re expected to and encouraged to be unethical and lie to customers to sell. FREQUENTLY i was told i was “taking money out of my own pocket” if i would provide a discount (that i was allowed to provide) to a customer who could really use the financial help (think: elderly people on social security) and was told to assume every person was “playing me” with a sob story. Would be hounded every second of the day and was not trusted at ALL. metrics are sent out and hounded on every hour and when managers ask you what your goal for the day is, no matter what your answer is, it’s not enough. over half the call centers caught covid on several occasions due to a lack of care (and then you were expected to come to work OR ELSE unless you had a positive covid test.) once the CDC recommended 10 days are up, you’re expected to come back to work even if you’re still showing symptoms and are discouraged from re-testing. You literally sell your peace for the money, and for some that’s fine. I used to think I could do anything if the money was right, but I was proven wrong here. Panic attacks between each call.

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Spectrum Response
4y
We appreciate the effort you took to share your experience with us. It really makes a difference when you feel supported by your team and leadership. The experience you describe is not in keeping with our company values and does not comply with our policies for workplace behavior. We have taken your comments to our leadership team, and thank you for helping us better understand how to support our future employees.
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