Lack of Leadership - Anonymous employee Crown Castle Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Project teams work well together on the District side. Good benefits, decent pay and work life is good.

Cons

If you are not a golf buddy you will get passed up for advancement. Managers always locked behind closed doors. If you are tenured or more to the point, over 40, your days are numbered. Managers say they can get two younger people for what they pay some employees.

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Crown Castle Response
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Thanks for sharing your views with us. We listen to everything our employees take the time to share with us. We’re glad that you feel that our pay, benefits and work / life balance are good. It’s something we invest a lot of time and resources into. Regarding your other comments, we do not tolerate discrimination in our workplace and take feedback like this very seriously. We would like to look into the issues you raised – you can let us know more details via our AlertLine tool, and can choose to stay anonymous. There is a link to the contact details on the right-hand side of our intranet homepage. Finally, since the employee survey sits with my team, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what more we can do to ensure people are able to complete the survey honestly. It would be great timing, as we’re currently looking at how to radically improve it this year. You can find my email by searching my role title on our intranet.

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Cons

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