Jan 23, 2018
Database Administrator III
Senior database administrator
Granite Telecommunications reviews
3.0
44% would recommend to a friend
Rob Hale Jr.
59% approve of CEO
45% positive business outlook
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Granite Telecommunications has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,407 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Granite Telecommunications 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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5.0
Jan 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
Finance has a great training program, Granite will train you on Excel, SQL, Power pivot and visual basic. Most companies do not want to spend the time to train you on these skills. These skills are transferable to other roles. If you're talented, you can move up fast. Granite will help pay for grad school. Granite gives out a bunch of bonuses to the whole company. Almost everyone in the company made about 2 grand in company bonuses last year. Accomplishments are recognized, you will get a shout out in a meeting and a gift card if you work on something non-routine. Granite has been very successful and is pivoting to continue to be successful with changes in technology. Company has many sport leagues (Softball, flag football, golf etc.) that are free or heavily discounted. Granite also has volunteer opportunities. Young atmosphere. They will not keep you on contract for a long time, just a period to prove yourself at the beginning. If you don't screw around, you should be fine. Decent spots for lunch and good places to grab a drink after work.
Cons
The pay isn't great. Granite is old school, no working from home, everyone works 8 - 5, takes their lunch at 12, etc. It's not super exciting work... but that's true about most office jobs. Traffic in the area is awful around 8 and 5. Parking is a pain if you're running late. Café is kind of expensive.
1.0
Jan 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros
Granite does an excellent job of hiring people who are over qualified for their positions and making them feel otherwise. The exception would be management, which by and large, is full of people who would likely never achieve such success elsewhere and this is why they never leave. While there are some people who exemplify what management should be, most of them are promoted because they are malleable and lack the ambition required to move on. Free gym. Close the T, which many people should take because the parking lots are a complete mess of a situation. Free shirts for those who work out or when they make a big revenue goal, although they put the company value on the shirts, which is completely pompous and tacky.
Cons
Granite runs on favorites. You can be the top performer on one team and the worst on another depending on how your manager feels about you. The transparency of the bias will be denied if you bring up but obvious for everyone to see. Management fosters an incredibly unhealthy and unprofessional environment. So disconnected from employees that they use snitches to keep them informed of things they might know if they paid attention. No HR and very conscious of image: There is someone on salary reviewing and rebutting every review and then soliciting fake positive reviews to counterbalance the negatives and bring up the overall score. Members of management seek to identify those who they think would be willing to write positive reviews and flat out ask them to do so. Perhaps they could have put those resources into addressing employee concerns rather than devoting an entire human whose only purpose is to temper the terrible image they've constructed amongst their employees might be helpful. Turnover: a revolving door to the point that some employees are asked to lie about leaving the company when handing over accounts and instead told to claim a new position within. CEO is an immature, petulant manchild. Clearly very insecure as he is a prime example of nepotism as opposed to hard work and behaves like he's running a frat house rather than a company. Berated unhappy employees for honestly answering a survey that he asked them to take instead of taking into consideration the concerns leading to said dissatisfaction. Told people to quit because he is unwilling to change anything mentioned ever (actual statement) This place is such an absolute joke that it's shocking that people still want to work there. I admit to being a hopeful prospect writing off negative reviews as disgruntled ex employees but from first hand experience, it is an abnormal company in that it leaves employees worse than they come in.
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8yWe are disappointed to read about the negative experience that you had here. You shared a lot of information in this review which we appreciate. We are in a constant effort to collect feedback, the good, bad and ugly! We want employees to share their thoughts so we can implement changes and continue to do what works and make this a better company overall. We apologize that this company wasn’t the right fit for you and we wish you all the best in your future employment.
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