Comcast reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(18,787 total reviews)
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Brian L. Roberts

72% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Comcast has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 18,787 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Comcast 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
Nov 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the people here are really nice and I've enjoyed my time with them. Others are still stuck in high school and will never grow up.

Cons

Leadership is horrible. Don't get me wrong. A few of the local supervisors are really good. Other have been promoted beyond their capabilities. Comcast touts a mantra of "One Comcast" that couldn't be farther from the truth. Every work group within Comcast has its own set of goals and metrics and none of them are pointing in the same direction. What's worse is this is the worst communicating company I've ever worked for bar none. So with this combination Comcast across the board spends a disproportionate amount of time and resources misfiring causing customer aggravation, constant employee churn, and they unnecessarily burn through resources and customers like they have them to spare. As an employee it's ungodly frustrating to work for a company that has no interest in providing you (the employee) the tools and resources you need on a daily basis to create a positive experience for your internal and external customers. I have to literally fight my employer (Comcast) DAILY to get what I need to service their customers. Training is entirely inadequate for company employees. This is the reason when you call Comcast it depends on who you get as to what kind of service quality you receive. It's basically up to the person to train themselves, or don't. Comcast doesn't care and they won't fire anyone for poor performance (no accountability). That … and the fact that there are more contract workers here than there are actual company employees and the contract workers have zero accountability. The further up the leadership chain you go, the more disconnected they are from what's going on at your level. The problem is this is where all the decisions are made and handed down to your level. As such, the decisions that are handed down by the corporate overlords make little sense to the day-to-day operations on the ground and are further complicated by the lack of communication of their decisions to all applicable parties.

3.0
Oct 22, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great People, great way to get a foot in the door in advertising, excellent benefits

Cons

Account Planners work long hours, compensation unfair for amount of hours and scale of work (especially when compared to account executives), no career path for account planners. All of this has lead to very high turn over in the Account Planning position over the last couple of years

2.0
Sep 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

May meet some really good co-workers that will make you laugh and make the day go by faster. They cater food often which is cool. you are likely to get 2 weeks vacation as a new hire(3 weeks at 5 years 4 weeks at 15). You get 8 flex days 4 floating holidays and point system which will allow you to come to work late/ miss days up to a certain point before being put on a final warning. If they like you, they will not be quick to terminate you despite you violating the point policy or running out of approved time. You get free cable service and free internet service with reduced rates on equipment. You get half off home phone service and discounts on certain cell phone carriers. The stock plan is steadily growing. I advise to get in get experience and move on to a better position within the company such as sales support, administration, REM, or become a trainer. Also they have 100% tuition reimbursement which I loved, so use it.

Cons

This is not a job for the weak of mind or weak of heart. It's a true sales environment so you will experience multiple quotas and demands to be met at once, as well as the expectations of what is the most important quota will change drastically according to business and you may rarely be told why the fluctuation is occurring. There will be favoritism and gossip, sexual harassment from management, your sales commission being shorted with no logical explanation or logical math to to show how they calculated your commission or lack there of. Customers can be extremely rude often to no fault of your own but usually because another rep or department dropped the ball big time. Inter department communication is poor, so customers get bounced around a lot causing them to be moody. You will be tempted to avoid taking calls, transfer customers to other departments to avoid dealing with their irate behavior, hang up on customers, lie to customers, slam customers as well as steal sales from other reps who have likely stole sales from you. But I urge not to do anything unethical as that is a quick way to be fired or put on a final warning. However, don't be surprised to see management openly rewarding other reps that do these things to hit their numbers but pretend they don't know how the rep made such outrageous quotas. Instead be honest with yourself and sup and take a break when you get fed up, get your sales honestly, get your check, and try to move up to something less stressful.

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