Verizon reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(35,723 total reviews)
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Dan Schulman

25% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Verizon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 35,723 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Verizon 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
Mar 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits are the best you could ever ask for...along with the salary...they are incomparable for this area, no doubt.

Cons

Preferential treatment for employees...managmnt cleary had favorites who were allowed certain privileges that others werent...same for promotion...opportunities for advancement were never posted for eveyone, only offered to a select few.

2.0
Mar 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is very good and the benefits can't be beat. If you're not working in POTS or Fios, the work can also be very interesting at times. There are opportunities to work on special projects for important events .

Cons

Tensions between the union and management exceed all logic. To be fair, both sides are equally to blame. Management seems so intent on breaking the union, they no longer see that they have a great many employees who have an excellent wok ethic and merely wish to do their job without being made to feel the slightest misstep will lead to disciplinary action. As a union represented employee, merit counts for nothing at all unless one wants to leave the union and go into management. But quarterly layoffs have become the norm for management so most who might want to advance their careers won't the risk taking a job not covered by the union negotiated job protections. Seniority is the only path to the sought after craft jobs in the company. If you want to get into a high tech position, you often need 30+ years to do so. As for those in management jobs, the layoffs have gotten to the point of absurdity. When you go through a round of layoffs, those remaining must shoulder the burden. What the company seems to ignore is that after so many quarterly layoffs their management team is not simply taking on twice their former workload, but often up to eight or more times previous expectations! It's not sustainable by any stretch of the imagination.

4.0
Mar 17, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

For freshers good place to work. Pays better than the market. Flexible work hours. Good respect to employees. For a self learner there are lot of sources for learning. You will hardly find a manager from whom you can learn some thing..

Cons

Appraisals and Promotions not just based on your performance though they say it so in the policy document. It all depends how close you are to your manager and DH. If you r an excellent employee and you are dumb, you will sit in the same role for years. Most of managers are tend to lie and make false promises. They will say something to you but never do any thing for you.

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