Terrible for employees that have been there a long time - Senior Lead Engineer Lumen Employee Review

This is a long list When you are first hired they treat you very well. After you are in the door don't plan on a yearly raise. It is an actual policy that merit raises are no longer. You will only get a raise if you are buddies with the manager and even then the company limits how many people get a raise. Older employees are in an uphill battle here. Lumen will try any means possible to squeeze you out. No raises, then as you get older your yearly reviews get worse. Speaking of reviews they are a joke. The business dictates how many people on your team get certain ratings in the 9-block. 1 person must get a 4, limited 5s are permitted and anything higher is very limited. Since level3 merger the management is awful. There are some manager that are very childish and hold grudges against people for stupid things. Lumen talks a big game on their diversity, but what they say and what they do are very different things. Being disabled is a real disadvantage at Lumen.