Verizon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

* Company size can make communication difficult. * Danger of burnout. The teams are lightly staffed, the development cycles are frequent and aggressive, budgets are tight. As a result, you may find your self working weekends, holidays, and vacations. * First level managers are not very effective (promoted into the position but not well trained for it). They do not follow company policy of coaching and encouraging professional development of those who report to them. Their is focus meeting scheduled milestones.

Treating contractors (we are not even considered consultants) like dirt is hard wired into VZW's DNA. I've never seen such a corporate culture this dysfunctional. Productive staff were overloaded with more and more work while slackers were allowed to coast. Of course renewal decisions had no bearing on productivity. Managers rose to their positions by virtue of tenure and not merit. There is a very lean management structure which might work in an organization with competent staffers but not one staffed by hacks. Long term managers are known to berate and bully the rank and file with impunity. Even long term well connected contractors throw their weight around. They are attuned to the poor job market and are acting accordingly because they can.