Verizon reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(35,721 total reviews)
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25% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Verizon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35,721 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Verizon 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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3.0
Feb 15, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

A company that I could stand behind & I believed in the services (still do) it had to offer to the consumer. Great benefits, lots of training, salary was average but equitable to others in the area.

Cons

Company loses sight of its "Integrity" credo, when it comes down to crunch time. In the business channel, they understand the medium to long process of the sales cycle to sm/med/large businesses, but I think their goals are becoming unrealistic in a market that is approaching saturation. Sell everything to everyone, even if they don't need it because YOU need those numbers in your module & we need the revenue...hardly "consultative" selling. There's no real vacation with the business sales position; no quota relief, capped commissions (ie. the opposite of "incentive"), not really being able/allowed to step out of the loop & recharge one's batteries. Granted, wireless is a 24/7/365 operation, but give the employees a real chance to come back refreshed instead of stressed. For the length of my career, I worked my tail off (long hours, sometimes weekends & holidays & vacations)...and I was successful at my job, but the cost was in not feeling like I had much of a life during that time. Yes, the time & effort that I spent was my choice, but it was frustrating to see other folks work half as hard, not do a good job, do only what they had to do and not take care of the customer, but still get rewarded purely based on numbers (ok, that's what sales is about...numbers, but I go back to "integrity."). The bean counters have too much say in how salespeople should be compensated, particularly when they've likely never sold a thing in their lives.

2.0
Feb 12, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I do not have a degree and have been compensated VERY well over the past 5 years. Good benefits!

Cons

Sales reps compete with non-commission employees in the same store/kiosk AND are under tons of pressure from management.

2.0
Feb 12, 2010

Internship

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work enviroment, more stress on self development and innovative thinking. Better management of resource and service overall good for first time experience.

Cons

A lot of stressed on deadline. No time for prsonal life and bad behaviour of HR and Management guys. Not so good for Tech

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