Frontier reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(2,503 total reviews)
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Nick Jeffery

71% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Frontier has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,503 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Frontier 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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3.0
Feb 9, 2016
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Pros

Great pay and amazing benefits

Cons

Mandatory OT for extended periods of time, which leads to sheer exhaustion and burning out of employees, zero time for a personal life, must be dedicated to job and job only! No time for training to advance your skill set. Major favoritism among employees and management, no room for growth with-in company as lower employee as I was promised in my initial interview, unless your in the right clique. Old technology, management does not take suggestions from people actually working in the trenches, when it pertains to making our job more efficent, worker bees do not have value. Schedule constantly changing, good hours given to "temp" employees, permanant employees forced to take late hours, when we were promised hiring temp employees that it wouldn't affect our schedules, but we have only been alienated from our lives and forced to late shifts.

4.0
Feb 7, 2016
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Pros

The best parts about working at Frontier in Everett, WA office is the team and culture. You are made to feel apart of something larger and there is generally a loyalty felt to the team. Not a whole lot of office politics as our local leadership shelters us from some of the more frustrating upstream politics. Developers are given the tools they need to succeed and the local development teams are focused on continuous improvement of process and product. Pay is much better than in previous years as the company has realized the need to compete with more established tech companies locally for talent. Always opportunities to learn as the telecom domain is deep. However, while the some of the legacy systems can be challenging, the modern tech stack is simple and easy to learn.

Cons

Frontier is 120 years old and has some antiquated IT process that makes what should relatively basic tasks more difficult but that is getting better. Some of our legacy systems are fraught with some technical debt which makes working in them a challenge. The Verizon and AT&T acquisitions are tiresome due to the long hours required to complete the development work to make them a success. It easy to get burnt out if you allow it. The overall SDLC process is a bit clunky and not agile however, the local teams in Everett strive to work in an agile fashion. That contradictions presents some real difficulties in trying to marry the two ways of working. IT Senior Leadership experience is heavily tilted to the network engineering side so application development gets less of a place at the table when strategy is discussed and decided.

4.0
Feb 6, 2016

Growing Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Abundant opportunities to expand your career and development.

Cons

Rapid growth has it growing pains. This can cause difficulties in focusing on long term solutions vs quick fixes.

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