Company is generally on the right path - Product Manager Verizon Employee Review

4.0
Sep 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and salaries. Learning and development opportunities. Many bright and talented employees. Autonomy and flexibility common in many roles. Great growth and opportunity in portions of the business (i.e., 5G). Leading edge technology tools. Verizon is becoming more employee-friendly and nimble, and working to reduce bureaucracy. Much better environment than 5+ years ago. Given Verizon's size, your experience can vary a lot depending on the job, location and organization you're in.

Cons

Big company environment does still exist, including some of usual bureaucratic obstacles. Company faces ongoing headwinds from legacy businesses along with heavy competition and rapid evolution of technology, creating constant revenue and expense pressure. Long hours and heavy workload not unusual. Frequent changes in systems, directors/VPs, organizational structures. Lots of outsourcing and layoffs. Legacy telecom part of company is unionized with potential for all other employees to be assigned to strike duty every 3-4 years when contracts expire.

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4.0
Jan 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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