Zayo reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,285 total reviews)

Steve Smith

60% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Zayo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,285 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zayo 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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1K reviews
5.0
May 20, 2025

Great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

From my perspective, Zayo Europe is a great place to work if you are proactive, detail-oriented and eager to make an impact. The company has a very collaborative environment and forward-thinking culture. The colleagues and management are always responsive and provide opportunities for development and professional growth. Hybrid working mode works great.

Cons

There are no real cons. Zayo is scaling quickly, and with that comes the growing pains of standardizing certain processes. However, the company makes every efforts to improve knowledge sharing and adjust processes as needed.

4.0
May 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great salary, FTO, 401k match, flexible to build my own schedule. Work from out of my home office. Have a great boss who doesn’t mind taking heat if it is something he believes in.

Cons

Upper level management not clear about contract negotiations. Stability outlook is not good. I want to be guaranteed that my job is safe and they cannot do that. We just need higher level of transparency. Also, upper management not listening to the guys out there on the ground.

2.0
May 15, 2025

Just okay

Recommend
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Pros

A lot of freedom for sales to perform autonomously. KPIs to hit, but messaging / strategy for outbound is mostly able to be personalized. Tools are given to help with outbound and achieving KPIs. Zayo has for the most part the largest and most capable infrastructure available in North America. Has services and capabilities beyond what most competitors can offer/deliver. Very strong partner of world's largest organizations and particularly hyperscalers. Commission structure is generous, typically dollar for dollar of monthly revenue sold.

Cons

Nearly all services sold by Zayo are commoditized, resulting in often losing deals to lower bidding competitors. Few unique differentiators with Zayo. Zayo does have a great managed SDWAN offering but severely over complicates the solution to customers. Service delivery struggles immensely with delivering on time, often without strong communication internally to reps or externally to customers. Sales works very hard to bring in new business only for service delivery to severely damage customer relationship on fumbling install. Go to market strategy is very unclear and generally unsuccessful. Extremely difficult for most reps to get anywhere near quota. Quota also ~2x of reps at other carriers. Frequent layoffs, typically 2 layoffs a year, one usually right before holidays. Practically zero culture at Zayo Internal processes are constantly changing, internal team responsibilities very unclear. Frequent reorganizing of account modules / teams.

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