AT&T reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(42,060 total reviews)
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John Stankey

43% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

AT&T has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 42,060 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AT&T employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecomunicaciones industry (3.6 stars).

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5.0
Oct 25, 2008
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Pros

Salaries/benefits. If you define your boundaries, life/work balance is respected and encouraged. AT&T is THE leader and has so much untapped potential... mostly because of the need to update it's corporate culture and adopt a new, progressive management style.

Cons

So big, makes change slow and cumbersome; but change is constant and frustration can be too; organizational communication is often lacking and change is made with no input from 2nd/1st level managers. It's a dictatorial management style that still drives the company. Unfortunate. We can be GREAT - but need to look at unneccessary and excessive layers of management. Keep people based on talent, contributions, effectiveness - not politics. Build an engaged, innovated, progressive culture that allows the enterpreneurial spirit to live and where people are rewarded based on their work. That takes trust - up and down and across the board. We've got a lot of work to do in that respect. (Too many mergers - too many insecure, threatened managers in the midst of endless reorgs and downsizing. Hard times.)

4.0
Oct 25, 2008
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Pros

If you like technology and challenges, you will like the environment in Redmond. The offices were ok, a bit crowded at times and not enough conference rooms. The benefits were good, and when a relative of mine was very sick, my manager and director were very flexible and helpful.

Cons

Beauracratic, good old boy politics from the Atlanta office. The mandates they would send were so 1974 and were an insult. The truth is that the AT&T Wireless employees were smarter than 90% of the Cingular employees, that was clear from day one of the acquisition. They would have two or three people doing the same job that one AT&T Wireless person was doing - talk about bloated payrolls!

1.0
Oct 24, 2008
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Pros

The money is fair. The technology is also a good perk that you get free to use. Looks great to other corporate companies. Is impressive from a 20 something viewpoint; like being successful at a young age.

Cons

The training classes where there but I was never sent to them and they wonder why I didn't perform well. I asked time after time if I was going to go and received no answer. They pretty much set me up for failure. I got to send all my reps to training while I sat in my office jealous that I never got to go. They always talked about the execution of certain matrix's but the only execution that they actually helped me succeed in was my own. NOT FOR PEOPLE THAT WANT A LIFE OF THERE OWN. Also, not for married folk. Oh and one last thing, if you are religious or have good morals and values, run...

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