Verizon reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(35,723 total reviews)
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Dan Schulman

25% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Verizon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35,723 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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3.0
Feb 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent base salary, decent commission opportunity, great benefits... insurance, 401K, toys (like laptops, phones, tablets), 50% off on personal wireless plans - all of these things are truly outstanding. Most prestigious company in the industry with undeniably the best network.

Cons

Micro-management to the most extreme level imaginable. Salesforce.com is your life here. Customer service requests and issues from your customer base and constant requests from management will make it extremely difficult to concentrate on selling for any reasonable amount of time to achieve and exceed your quotas. There are quotas for absolutely everything. Quotas for phone calls, appointments, gross voice activations, sales dollars, accessory sales, machine to machine sales, mailers, new opportunities, new opportunities that you give to M2M partners, device trade-ins, you name it there's a quota for it and a manager to ask why you didn't achieve it and will expect a plan to correct it. Not enough support to enable you to focus on selling. If you have an outer market territory, you will have a difficult time with all this AND having significant windshield time that limits your selling time even more. If you stay long enough to inherit an inner market territory, you'll have it made with plenty of leads and minimal windshield time. All of this makes this job extremely stressful, unpleasant, and exhausting. The company intranet and systems is very unintuitive and takes a long time to get acclimated to.

1.0
Feb 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Money is good Good benefits Good insurance

Cons

So much stress this job send you to see you doctor I got anxity and depression They push you to craziness . They don't care if you sick you have to work no matter what

3.0
Feb 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefit package is top best, haven't seen anything comparable Tuition assistance is best around access to all kinds of technologies and tools for learning and personal development work relations are good, not too overboard but OK

Cons

very unstable job security, reorgs every other month, lots of RIFs all year round Very limited growth opportunities, you can get all the personal experience and learning you want but you will just progress up to certain level, above levels are reserved for club members only completely nonexistent balance of work and personal life, it is expected from you to answer phones 24/7 all 365 even on vacations, with no extra compensation as 'it is expected' all your work relation with the corporate is thru your superior, HR doesn't exist to deal with employees or mediate, or even give you an exit interview. lots of stress and over pressure for little things if they are 'in the radar' of some executive, lack of perspective on what is really important for the business and more on what is important for your boss career and no, no promotion if you don't belong to the club.

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