AT&T reviews

Job is no longer stable and entry level employees suffer a low salary. It all began in 2003. After AT&T outsourced many projects to oversea development center, management focused on slashing costs. The new initiative goes like this, a project is a software that has a 5-year shelf-life, so we should produce it cheaply and rewrite another version 60 months later. A valid point but wrong approach. Outsource doesn't necessarily lower the cost. Managed wisely, a team of 10 dev and 1 proj mgr in US can be as productive and cost efficient as 30 dev in Bombay or Shanghai and 4 proj mgr spreading around the globe.

Too big, sometimes you can get lost in the mix. It may be slow to make a decision which can be frustrating. Company may encourage conformity and I did feel sometime that having a different opinion is not encouraged especially when dealing with senior management. In that regards, AT&T may seem to be too hiererchical.