Start a career but don't expect job stability - Anonymous employee Verizon Employee Review

3.0
Nov 10, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and benefits package. Good place to learn and start a career and then move on. It's a much different place since they bought MCI. Between the Verizon Business side and the Verizon ILEC side of the business there are a lot of opportunities to start a career but don't expect to be there for a long time.

Cons

Constant downsizing, too much politics vs actual contibution to the job or the company. If you can play the game you can make a pretty good living. The major problem is that other then the Verizon Wireless side of the company the rest of the company is lossing customers and revenues and the company is constantly cutting people to meet the numbers that that report to Wall St.

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Pros

Compensation is competitive but you will work very hard for it. Culture is excellent and exhibited and practiced from the top down. Benefits are excellent and cost reasonable. 401k match and profit sharing. Lots of training and professional development opportunities. Can advance if you're willing to relocate.

Cons

Company is trying to transform into what it wants to be beyond a wireless carrier (cloud?, security?, telematics?, wholesaler?, etc) and is struggling with a vision, resources, and org structure to make it a reality. Several re-organizations over last few years so job security has frequently been a question. Often delayed response to competitors caused by management's concern that acting would result in not meeting Wall Street expectations. Not the "happiest" place to work because no result is ever good enough and successes aren't celebrated because the focus is always on the next weekly/monthly/quarterly goal.

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