AT&T reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(42,068 total reviews)
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John Stankey

43% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

AT&T has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 42,068 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AT&T employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
May 25, 2022

Insane hours

Recommend
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Pros

Money is decent but no opportunity for advancement.

Cons

The hours are actually insane. You never know when you are going to get home when you are working. Prem techs are under appreciated and treated horribly compared to other positions in the company, despite how necessary the job is. You can be forced to work 6 days the following week with no notice. They can and will do this almost every single week. The job will break you down physically and mentally. The CWA union is garbage at negotiations and there is no hope for change for a minimum of 4 years from 2022, which is when the new union contract was ratified. If you are good at your job and efficient, congratulations, your reward is more work and staying out later. I would NEVER wish this job on anybody. I am leaving as soon as I have a chance.

2.0
May 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Remote Unionized Some of the software/communication used are helpful for problem solving. There are a lot of options for career growth but in most cases you have to be in the company for a minimum of 6 months.

Cons

Hard set schedules(this sounds good on paper but you have very little say in the matter, you're usually assigned a set schedule for six months w/ little to no flexibility, often with undesirable hours till you reach seniority and then maaybe you'll get better options) Long hours most shifts were 9+ hours w/ getting stuck on phone calls usually extend each shift potentially 30 minutes to an hour. Useless Managers, most of the time if a customer is pretty rude/aggressive you just have to sit there and take it, even if the customer has a valid reason to speak to a manager it's like pulling teeth to get one to actually talk to them. The CX(customer) could be cursing up a storm or threaten legal action & you're just supposed to nod and take it. Managers can also be very micromanaging. I often had managers message me mid call to coach tell me what to say/do and it was often more just distracting and frustrating than helpful. It would've been fine after the call but then it just makes you feel like an idiot and/or you're not particularly doing anything wrong outside of strictly following their unofficial script and asking creepy questions to create small talk by extracting the personal data you have access to. Benefits take a long time to kick in and are confusing. Also, if you quit/leave the company you can't reapply for 6 months and I think they do that to screw over any kind of seniority/reestablishing benefits/etc. so you have to start in square one again. Sales focused as well. While Sales are great in most scenarios or when people want them the main goal is to get "add-a-lines" which more often than not it's like a 1% chance someone is remotely interested in getting one when the whole point of the phone# they call to reach you is for customer service so 95% someone is calling to complain about their bill or some other issue and the last thing they want to do after being overcharged or dealing with a negative experience/wasting their time is to spend more money on something they probably do not need.

1.0
May 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The pay isn't bad $19 an hour, work from home.

Cons

They use intimidation tactics so that you don't miss work, ie you cannot take off any time within 6 months of employment or it will count against your attendance. Systems go down frequently and you will get blamed from management if you do not prove you were trying to get back to work. This has been the most anxiety ridden job I've had because they put so much pressure on you. There are 10 people left out of 40 from my training class. That speaks volumes. AND there was a sign on bonus.

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