If you find the right team it can be good - Principal Engineer Comcast Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're a part of a good team it can be a good job. There is autonomy within most teams, and after a certain point the pay becomes good if you can stick with it long enough.

Cons

Corporate security and HR treat employees like children. The handbook says that good faith actions will not lead to retaliation but this is not the case. And the only way to dispute something from HR is to go through HR (guess what their decision will be?) Re-orgs are frequent, especially when a new outside VP or SVP is hired. It seems almost mandatory that they shake things up, regardless of if they need any shaking. Higher level positions are almost exclusively hired from people outside the company, so upward mobility is limited after a certain point. Many engineers choose to switch from the engineering track to the business track simply for more money. This limits the number of higher level engineers, in fact a few years they refused to create any new high level engineering positions, imagine if they did that to the business track? They seem to constantly insert new engineering titles which makes it harder to climb the ladder also.

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5.0
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Pros

Great benefits and good culture

Cons

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5.0
Feb 28, 2015
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Recommend
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Pros

Working at Comcast has given me the opportunity to develop myself; take the time to grow and learn, and that was really important to me during the time in my life when I joined the company. If you have the drive and ambition, there are a ton of ways in which you can grow into a leader if that's what you want to be. I took advantage of the continued education benefit and am finishing my masters degree now... I also joined a couple of the employee resource groups which offer seminars and networking events that support your professional profile. Listen, I'm not a total nerd. The point of my post is that this isn't a company you join and just stay stale within. They encourage your growth, but it's up to you to make it happen. Not only this - it's pretty exciting. We're busy and we have big jobs to do. My salary is in the top percentile for my industry but not only this, I again get the continued education (which is ~$6K/year) plus free cable/internet, top health care benefits and a truly balanced lifestyle - which is rarely the case within the Tech industry.

Cons

Telling people you work at Comcast triggers 2 typical responses: 1) A big hatred rant on customer service 2) A how do I get my foot in the door? The reputation of the company is difficult, but the style of the company is to stay humble - I've never seen the company defend themselves against the harmful and discrediting news that exists. I personally think they should defend themselves a little more - they are between a rock and a hard place in many instances of service. I personally experienced visiting someone's home where the issues they were having with their connection was due to a tree root growing into the cable lines which had been their for over 20 years. Things like that cannot be diagnosed over a phone call. It's hard work in the field for sure. Being a part of the corporate side sometimes we're too disconnected from what's happening on the frontline. So I think the size of the organization comes with its complications, but again if you're a working professional looking for an exciting, robust and sexy career, you can comfortably have it here.

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