Cox Communications reviews

3.9

67% would recommend to a friend

(4,292 total reviews)
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74% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Cox Communications has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,292 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cox Communications 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
Oct 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Goood Benefits, Discounted Cable Services. The Co-workers are great. Pay is good but commission structure has been overhauled several times and has resulted in lower pay.

Cons

Micro-Management at its worst. If you do your best work being left alone look for another company to work for. You are continually monitored on everything you do. This includes constant instant messaging to find out why you are not available to take more calls. When you work for Cox in a sales role, (which all the roles are sales no matter what position you hold from billing to retention, to technical support) you might as well check your mind at the door. You can’t have any kind of initiative or individual thinking, you are told what to say, how to say it, and you must follow this script from the beginning to the end of the call and can’t vary what so ever from the script. The computer system that is used is the worst computer system that has ever been created, though there have been enhancements on the system. It still is a poor system that lived its usefulness 20 years ago. The company can’t or will not enhance this system to get itself in the 21st century. A prior review said that the enhancements that were done was like putting lipstick on pig. The bottom line is it is still a pig

2.0
Oct 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunities for advancement Benefits Work/life Balance educational opportunities (tuition reimbursement, in-house training, COX University)

Cons

Cons depend on which COX location you work in but in Phx, all of the pros are now more conditional and success is based on nepotism.

4.0
Oct 2, 2013

Like the job, dislike the customers

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, great training, wonderful co-workers, and a great supervisor. They spend a lot of money training you. There are plenty of good aspects about the position. But for every good aspect there is an equal and opposing negative one. The review of this company is mixed as you will see.

Cons

The customer base. Tech support can end up being a nightmare because on top of fixing peoples problems, you also have to try to sell them stuff. And yes, there is a sales quota in TECHNICAL SUPPORT. And don't get me wrong, some of the customers are wonderful to talk to and you wish you could talk to them all day long. But you're talking to people that are frustrated all day long. It wears on you after a while. I have been there for years and I really need to start looking elsewhere now. If it was just tech support, that would be one thing. But I don't feel it's appropriate to try to sell things to people with technical issues. In general, call centers are where dreams go to die. Don't expect to work for one and think that its a foot in the door. You're just a number and management rarely retires nor do higher up departments all of a sudden have an opening.

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