Sacrifices good people to meet its goals - Retail Sales Consultant Verizon Employee Review

4.0
May 13, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Progressive powerful company. Discounts and benefits are great. Fairly supportive management. Potential to earn a lot of money if you can exceed the very high sales goals.

Cons

Very high quota goals. (commission job) that go up higher year over year despite traffic slowing. very little chance to advance without moving across country. Right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. People who are higher up tend to Fail upwards. when their divisions are reduced or they perform badly and their division is closed, they are promoted to other positions. Job security is limited.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jan 26, 2015
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Pros

Compensation is competitive but you will work very hard for it. Culture is excellent and exhibited and practiced from the top down. Benefits are excellent and cost reasonable. 401k match and profit sharing. Lots of training and professional development opportunities. Can advance if you're willing to relocate.

Cons

Company is trying to transform into what it wants to be beyond a wireless carrier (cloud?, security?, telematics?, wholesaler?, etc) and is struggling with a vision, resources, and org structure to make it a reality. Several re-organizations over last few years so job security has frequently been a question. Often delayed response to competitors caused by management's concern that acting would result in not meeting Wall Street expectations. Not the "happiest" place to work because no result is ever good enough and successes aren't celebrated because the focus is always on the next weekly/monthly/quarterly goal.

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