Comcast reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(18,798 total reviews)
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Brian L. Roberts

73% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Comcast has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 18,798 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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2.0
Mar 5, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good health plan and free CHSI and Cable, management is friendly and makes sure that everything is working for you.

Cons

This is big business, not sales. This is customer service, not sales. This is how Comcast got to be so big. You can meet all product goals in a month and get written up. You need to make a “sale” on every call (its impossible). People call in and hang up, call from the wrong market, unauthorized people call in to ask misc questions, your own collection, billing and repair reps call you to ask questions, people that are having a missed install date and time, people that just want to talk to a live person that have a billing or repair issue call you… all of these calls count against you and if you work later in the day (after 7:00pm) they become the majority of the calls. If you don’t make close rate or revenue for a month, but you destroy the production numbers (phone Tv (D1) and internet) then you still get written up and threaten to be fired. This means they are going to get rid of you in 2 months. The company has to go through all checks and balances to show that they give everyone an opportunity. I understand this concept, its something we learned about at college. You don’t want to pay full time employees, so you add in metrics that don’t mean anything so you can turn them. The new employees wont have bennies for 90 days and it saves the company money because they can higher at the lowest wage. I was encouraged by two supervisors to stay off the phone as much as possible after 7:00 pm because it hurt my close rate. Or to stay on an individual call as long as possible. This tells me that they know the system is flawed. People that slam are fired, people that bend the rules and or make their own bundles are told not to but when their numbers come out, they are ones that are used as examples for paychecks. The prices that Comcast quotes are dumb for boxes compared to its competitors.

1.0
Feb 27, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Comcast does provide decent benefits to its full-time employees at a fair price. I do like the unit I work with.

Cons

Comcast would rather roll out a new fangled service, doo-dad, or other glitzy item than just provide good cable/internet/phone services to its customers. Comcast reissues equipment that is 3-10 years old, beat to hell by prior customers, and then asks us to apologize to customers whose services don't work. Everyday, I walk into the building thinking just how much I wish I did not work at Comcast. I leave the end of the day wishing I did not have to come back.

2.0
Feb 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent benefits; although they have gone done over the years. Free service if you live in a Comcast area. You can get some knowledge of the telecommunications industry.

Cons

First of all, there is no formal training. You sit with a couple of people and listen to their phone conversation. Then, you are placed on the phone to wing it. No one knows what is going on. There are no real sales people there. They promote people that they know not because they are qualified. Most of the people that are promoted to the better positions do not even have a bachelors degree. The best people are used for their knowledge but never appreciated for their quality of work.

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