Spectrum reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,894 total reviews)
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Chris Winfrey

53% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Spectrum has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 18,894 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spectrum 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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19K reviews
2.0
Apr 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits package does include free cable TV and free internet. The free internet is very helpful in the continuing of your job search while you work here. If you are lucky you will get a supervisor that appreciates you and that you can have a friendly working relationship with.

Cons

Expectations, metrics, and compensation packages follow the latest management fads. If you subscribe to any trendy business magazines you will be able to figure out what someone's next idea will be. That will help you in a big picture way, but you switch supervisors often because of the shift bid process. The metrics change so frequently, the goals you were supposed to be working towards achieving have changed already and then your rank in the shift bid falls because you were working to meet old goals.

1.0
Apr 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Once a great place to work with knowledgable and experianced peers.Benefits are allright,although Expensive. Free cable a nice perk if you live on system,if not your just asa out as they no longer honor recipicle agreements.

Cons

Too many chiefs,....The new direction the company has taken has built walls between departments and dissolved comradery. They have devalued many experianced employees by "restructuring " departments and forcing employees with great work ethics to take a "not my job " mentality. As a technical supervisor once responsible for every aspect of the plant from the head end to the house, we havenow had our hands tied and told to focus on only installed,trouble calls and disconnects,nothing else. So many of us with with 20 + years of experience can no longer dig deeper to gain resolution into system issues,we have to refer on to different departments who put too much faith in their own abilities to ever think they they have a problem,but the whole time we have to rely on others who have no sense of urgency,the metric on which we are scored is negative and the upper management refuses to make adjustments to the metric to account for things that are now out of our control. "Coach up or coach out" is the new Charter philosophy, which does absolutely nothing for moral. Charter is spending "stupid" money on concepts that are not tried and true. Not all locations can be ran from a cookie cutter template, what works in California may not work in Texas and what does not work in North Carolina may work in Nebraska, but to try to run every system identically does Not work.

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