Verizon reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(35,746 total reviews)
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Dan Schulman

24% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Verizon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35,746 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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36K reviews
3.0
Jun 16, 2022

Truth Be Told

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Pros

The best thing about working for Verizon is the benefits. All benefits start from day one of employment. And the pay is decent. You meet some great passionate people who care about the job.

Cons

Upper leadership makes changes and do not communicate to you in a timely manner. You have training on system changes months before the change so you don’t remember the change is coming. And it is a self online training. The system is so messed up that you spend time listening to the customers yell at you for how long they have been on hold while you fighting to make something work on the system. Management ask for feedback so they can address but nothing gets addressed or they just don’t tell you. They outsource the job and you spend more time cleaning up a customer’s account and fixing problems. They focus more on sales than actual customer service. They hound you in emails and chats about selling selling selling. They close needed departments and put those duties on customer service reps without any extra pay. You have to bid for shifts but they can’t tell you how your rank is actually calculated. So you may end up with a not so desirable schedule.

4.0
Apr 7, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Learn to lead and solve problems for all business industries

Cons

Technology and systems are always changing. What works today might not work tomorrow, ongoing learning.

1.0
Mar 7, 2022

Verizon talks a good game but it’s false

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Pros

It’s a big company so the medical benefits are good

Cons

I have been with Verizon for almost twenty years. And I drank the kool aid. I recommended them to friend. I was an advocate. Sometimes I worked for great people, sometimes for terrible ones. But in the last several years everything they have done is talk about how much better they are for employees while being worse. Verizon stacks the deck to make it seem like people enjoy working for them. They do “anonymous” pulse surveys. But before the pulse you are “encouraged” to provide feedback to your boss not on the pulse survey. And guess where the results go. That’s right, to your boss. Sure maybe it doesn’t identify each person but if you know your team it’s not hard to figure out. Last year they rolled out “One Team”. What a joke. What they have managed to do is downsize. Now they have a bunch of employees with no idea what they are doing. Customer experience is suffering. Oh and they are all about the customer experience. But not really. They are all about sales at any cost. Oh but they are big on inclusion and diversity. They have promoted some women, most women of color. But make no mistake this is a big old white man’s company. And if you’re over thirty, they are ready for you to move on. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention work life balance. I have no idea how they score high on this. It must be from non sales channels. Because if you are more than a rep and in sales there is NO SUCH THING!

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Thank you for taking the time to leave such an extensive review. We are always trying to improve the company culture and incorporate feedback in order to be better.
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