Consumer Cellular reviews

3.5

67% would recommend to a friend

(809 total reviews)

Ed Evans

69% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Consumer Cellular has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 809 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Consumer Cellular employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.5 stars).

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809 reviews
2.0
Feb 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits, Great shift options

Cons

I have never worked in a call center before so maybe this is typical of what to expect I feel I can be replaced easily, I feel like a number. There are many ways and reasons to be dismissed. If you do not mention the promo and they catch it on a call you get 2 failed calls and you are on your way out the door, do this back to back in 2 months you lose your job. Even if everything else on the call was perfect and the customer was happy.

3.0
Feb 18, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are very nice, Medical, Vision, and dental all paid and very generous. Flexible Spending Accounts, possibilities for bonus every month. Very often they have employee appreciation functions, company wide meetings, and fair pay with a very nice overtime scheme.

Cons

Very particular about call monitoring, often bordering on excessively nit picky on promotions. While they offer sick and paid time off they are fairly conservative with it at base levels without putting in years of work, and while they are generous with unpaid time off if you take one day, then that day takes a full calendar year to come off of any potential disciplinary action. If you are going to be late to work they treat 2 minutes late the same as up to 2 hours late, and the general feeling for many employees is “if I’m going to be 4 minutes late I might as well be an hour and 40 minutes late.”

1.0
Feb 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy entry level job if you have no other option. Full gym on site...not that you have time to use it, or be allowed in the building off schedule.

Cons

Zero tolerance for unforseen time off. Our training class was literally told by the GM "Lets say you use your three occurrences and get in a car accident and need to call in a fourth time within a 90 day window. Well we would have to fire you for attendance" Amy company that would fire you while you're in the ER need to evaluate their values. Marketing themselves as a cell phone provider for elderly yet force you to cell smart phones to customers that literally call in "because their phone is broken" only to find out they don't know how to turn on their basic flip phone....Then mark you down for long call times. Every call is completely scripted. If you like reading the same sales script to EVERY customer this might be the job for you. If you like being lied to by the owners (which happen to be Angel Investors) this might be the position for you. If you like being docked for sick time when the entire call center had to call in due to an overwhelming amount of snow and hazardous road conditions, this might be the job for you. This was the WORST call center job I've ever had. Their "Now hiring" sign on the side of the road is up year round for a reason ; poor management name and poor ownership. Lastly they don't even have their own cell service. They piggy back off of TMobile and ATT which happen to have one of the worry signal reliability second to sprint. I could go on and on... Lastly don't plan on finishing out your two weeks when you put in your notice. They will let you show up at 5am, then escort you out like an outcast. Take my advice, don't apply unless your desperate, and when you quit, do it via email.

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