Verizon System Engineer reviews

3.8

86% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)
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Dan Schulman

36% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

System Engineer employees have rated Verizon with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most System Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Verizon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by System Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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85 reviews
2.0
Dec 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get paid every two weeks and it's close to where i live. Very good network. The Insurance dental/vision are decent compared to other large companies. 401k is good.. Ability to work from home. Annual bonus.

Cons

No pension. Benefits cut every year. Multiple layoffs each year. People forced to train their H1B replacements. Very little chance to move between groups or advance skill sets. In IT most new hires are non US. Very little vision of IT. IT functions on chaos - there is very little vision or direction. Too much management leads to red tape and plenty of political battles, wasted effort and wasted $$.

3.0
Aug 23, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to get a start. Its a stable place to work ( i.e. if you do your job and are at all competent you'll be able to keep it for years). Pretty good support for training and education, so long as it pertains to your current job. They encourage telecommuting which allows for a good work / life balance. You can pretty much live anywhere you want.

Cons

Senior management has no real clue what they're doing. There are frequent reorganizations ( one each year i've been there). Most jobs require working with different groups within the company and the groups are very territorial. Getting things done as a developer / engineer is worse than pulling teeth. Each group is under staffed so the implied expectation is to work late, work on weekends, to get the job done. Telecommuting is encouraged , yet its a double edged sword in that if you work from home, you're available 24/7 to work. There's virtually 0 chance for career advancement.

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