AT&T reviews

Very large bureaucracy; Extremely political management environment; Prone to outsourcing legacy technologies; Prone to divesting personnel associated with legacy technologies to an outside supplier; Very large base of 25+ years employees keeping benches warm; Extremely difficult to effectively balance Process between delivery & due diligence; Constant battles to cut the fat; AT&T preaches telecommuting to the outside world, but many internal teams limited in practice; AT&T preaches high technology products e.g. iPhones, WiFi, etc. to customers, but limited enthusiasm for employee concessions for high revenue services

There are no promotions in middle management or very few. There is no supervisor/management empowerment. AT&T leadership tends to be at 30,000 feet. Those close to work see management's numerous mistakes and even huge errors. The processes are nothing short of horrible, too much time to do anything because of trying to make single processes work for all groups and situations. Levels of approvals needed for even simple decisions go way too high. People often give up trying to actually be innovative, or to do the right thing since it usually becomes a battle against leadership and process. This poor senior management philosophy is causing many good new employees to leave as well as very talented experienced employees taking early retirements to work elsewhere.