Great for stability, terrible for ambition. - Senior Analyst Comcast Employee Review

2.0
Jul 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and salary is reasonable for the area. Flexibility is nice especially if that's what you need in your life at the moment. Your job is generally very secure and safe and you have a lot of of wiggle room when it comes to performance and keeping your job. If you are looking for a long, stable career in one place with a lot of flexibility then Comcast might be a very good fit. Very much one of the few companies that I feel truly understands and does "diversity" right. Its not just a token effort but is very much ingrained in the culture.

Cons

Its a very large company so your personal experience can vary widely depending on your specific team and manager. If you are ambitious and looking to accomplish great things you will find a lot of cultural resistance. There is a tendency to do work for the sake of staying busy, and not to actually accomplish anything. A lot of groups are protective of their own processes/work and resistant to potentially positive changes. Management tends to treat every single project as the most critical which ultimately leads to a lack of trust - especially when internal products or project results are dropped within weeks of completion. Personally I have just completed my third project in a row where the finished product has gone ignored by the same stakeholders who were stating how vital the project was for the company's success. There is an overall lack of accountability when it comes to project success. Projects can slip in terms of budget and timeline by several months and hundreds of thousands of dollars and sponsors or project managers will simply move the goal posts. Very rare to have any revisiting of projects a year+ later to see if the business case has panned out or if returns have been met. No sense of lessons learned and mistakes are very often repeated. Be careful about promises of internal movement/promotion, especially across functions. Its possible to be able to advance through job openings on other teams, but it will be entirely on you to find these and pursue them. There is no sense in the broader company of an internal talent marketplace and often managers will look outside first - in my opinion this is due to lack of support from the talent acquisition teams. The Career Profile was advertised as a solution to this, but I have yet to hear about a success story where an individual was contacted by other groups within the company for opportunities or to work on new projects, or of any manager who used this tool when making a hiring decision. Your own resume, LinkedIn profile, and networking will do a lot more for your internal career growth than the Career Profile will.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Feb 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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