Relentless Greed,...Money 1st, People Last Culture - Solutions Specialist Verizon Employee Review

2.0
May 3, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unfortunately, the only pros are decent benefits like tuition assistance and medical is the only thing I can really say for Verizon Wireless.

Cons

They lie about work life balance; they continue to worsen this for retail employees by shaving hours of operation so that you literally work the waking hours of every single day. I literally never see my daughter 5 days weekly. They brag throughout the company about their record-breaking earnings and profitability, but continue to decrease the compensation for the sales staff that helps make that happen. Every month, they increase quotas to a point where I am literally expected to do twice the production for 2/3 of the pay. They also lie about ergonomics; they make you take a huge training and assessment on the right way to be healthy and posterize your body at work, while meanwhile, you are unable to sit, you hold a clunky tablet device in your hand all day hunched over. There are no accommodations to promote healthy posture in retail. They make the sales compensation extremely complex. The compensation tends to reward only the reps that blow off customer service assistance for guests (and in turn turn and burn customers that are sales quicker). If you actually want to carry out Verizon's claimed mission statements ("...put customers first..."), you will fail and make less money. They are inadvertently creating a car dealership mentality by the very nature of their increasingly greedy sales targets and culture they are creating.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

The sheer volume of data, infrastructure, and budget allows you to build and run initiatives that you simply cannot replicate at smaller companies. While being here, we have had to solve complex, high-impact problems with strong results, the resources are absolutely here. The frontline teams and mid-level leaders (at least mine) are deeply knowledgeable technical experts who genuinely care about protecting and enabling the business. Leading people of this caliber makes cascading a vision highly rewarding, as the execution capability is top-tier. We are always striving to make the company better without compromising integrity.

Cons

Moving large initiatives or projects through a matrixed organization like Verizon requires an exhausting amount of red tape - no matter how much they want to claim otherwise. Decisions that should take days can take weeks or months due to the endless layers of alignment and stakeholder sign-offs required. This is further complicated as the company undergoes regular structural shifts, reorgs, and "strategy pivots". As a leader, a significant portion of your energy will be spent managing team fatigue and keeping folks steady through constant organizational "evolutions."

4.0
Jan 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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