Verizon reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(35,745 total reviews)
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Dan Schulman

24% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Verizon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35,745 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Verizon 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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36K reviews
3.0
May 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good Pay (Especially the Shift pay for Engineers and Contractors) - Flexible working hours. No issues at all to work from home or to leave early - Nice Offices in San Francisco. - Good opportunity to learn and develop skills. Plenty of tools and technologies to play with.

Cons

- 100% Time tracking. You have to record every single minute of your day. Yes, this include your toilet visits. It's really, really that bad. - Very political due to a handful of managers. Promotions and opportunities are defined by personal relationships and not competence. This is very sad as some people are excellent but are purposely held back and will never progress in the company. - Constant cost savings. The company saves money by not buying paper towels and hand soap. Makes you wonder if you really work for a billion dollar company.

2.0
May 24, 2010

EZVZ

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits are great compared to other industry's. A supervisor can make more money than an entry level attorney.

Cons

Everyone is working scared because of the constant lay-offs each quarter. There is no more loyalty and morale is at an all time low with management positions.

2.0
May 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Verizon has great pay and benefits. The company brand is well known and looks good on a resume. Probably the best corporate job I've ever had overall.

Cons

Outdated culture. We have a great advertisement machine.(2nd largest ad spend in the US) however, internally, it feels very much like the old telephone company prior to the split up of the baby bells in 1984. This culture problem produces the remainder of my comments on "Cons" as follows: No real focus on innovative creative ideas. They all either cost too much or don't produce instant revenue, therefore they don't see the light of day. Revenue generation is always the priority and exceeds customer experience ever single time as a objective. A coin toss would yield better results in this area. Headcount reduction / RIF / Layoffs seem to be a quarterly occurrence over the past 3 or 4 years. Yes, we are in a tough economy and this is everywhere, however, we do not think through the strategy of how to continue production with every shirking resources.

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