Portugal Telecom Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Portugal Telecom as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – acquire know-how on job, share info with colleagues and customers

Cons – to much time to change the position

Advice to Senior Management – manage working around

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The mobility platform that provides employees with the ability of choosing other areas to work in, the always-new job and all the learning and growing opportunities, the new market yet unexplored that is Oi...

Cons – Beurocracry, the company's dimension is too big to ensure adequate time to market

Advice to Senior Management – please review the career plan to avoid brain drain, and improve project management skills throughout the organization

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – A lot of challenging work
State of the art technologies

Cons – Unclear career plan
Internal communication is an issue

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – To be in a market and innovation leading company that revolutionized the quality of communications in Portugal and that even managed to launch some unique worldwide breakthroughs, such as the first social network of tv channels.

Cons – Low salaries and a currently unfavorable macroeconomic scenario.

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the huge gap in compensation between the baseline and top management as it ends up unsettling the whole organization

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Chalenging, dinamic, inovative, updated, competitive, winner

Cons – midle level leadership , changing, too big

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Portugal Telecom as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Specific program (PT Trainees) for recruiting of raw university talent, independently of course.
Great integration for new people based on periodic side activities over the first two years which are part of the program.

Cons – Milleage may vary at such a large company, there are many different people and job types which make each person's experience unique and not necessarily what one would expect after being accepted.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase the company's focus on expanding its business model internationally even more, as Portugal is a very small market for all the big ideas that are being developed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Job security, good for your CV, has been under a big culture change during latest years.

Cons – Bureaucracy, a problem in almost every big company
Management should listen to employees
Somewhat unfair performance evaluation system

Advice to Senior Management – Give space for employees to put their ideas at work
Motivate employees and avoid their departure
STOP creating bureaucracies and frustrating processes. Simplify!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than a year

Pros – You learn enterprise size methodologies there. The company lunch area is reasonable although it could have more variety.

Cons – They don't have good work life balance and the outsourcing is terrible, seen people there that are outsourced by as much as four companies before being deploy in their work post, a victory for the middle men.

Advice to Senior Management – the outsourcing is not really saving any money, offer those workers half of what you pay to the outsourcing companies and the "real" workers will be be very happy with the 50% raise and a stable job. I simply quit and moved on to a better work because these critical points would not be meet even if I was very good at my work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Portugal Telecom full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent place to learn and get experience, great work environment.

Cons – Compensation should be one tool for administrators to drive workers performance and motivation. But unfortunately that is not the PT way.

Advice to Senior Management – Please reward intelligently

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Portugal Telecom as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great team.... excellent vibe inside the company, the spirit of progress is in, in the short time I was in the company they gave several workshops for the employees

Cons – Long hours as an Engineer, still the ambiance is good enough so you don't realize the amount of time you spent in there.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company