AT&T reviews

The pay is well below market. Six of the twelve employees hired with me quit within the first two years. Promotion potential is dependent on gender and race. Women and minorities need far less skill to advance. The company is a dinosaur. Very slow, low tech, and bureaucratic. Lots of boring projects. Even managers get bogus phone bills. Way too many levels of management. Managers invent needless bureaucracy to justify their existence.

The fear of layoffs was always there, but in this economy where are you going to find a job without that fera? One downside I saw was the seemingly non-cooperative spirit between some departments. The "service" departments were given directives but the support from upper manangement to enforce the directives wasn't as strong as it could have been. It would feel as if you were the "bad cop" doing the bidding for upper management and when the department you were supporting didn't like the directive and would push back and "throw their weight around", upper management would "give in" resulting in those trying to enforce the directive have less creditability with their client.