Zayo reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,285 total reviews)

Steve Smith

60% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Zayo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,285 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zayo 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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1K reviews
3.0
Mar 5, 2018

Great Coworkers, Bad Pay

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

The engineers, project managers, and support staff are all top notch, willing to put time in. Having quarterly bonuses can be a great structure for young workers who are not looking to start families or have a mortgage.

Cons

Compensation. Raises are like drowning in the desert, it can happen, but rarely and in unusual circumstances. The bulk of the compensation is based on quarterly bonuses, which once you string together 3+ bad quarters the wheels start falling off the bus.

1.0
Jun 17, 2015

Well isn't this interesting (response to review from 6/12/2015)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Many areas offer some flexibility with work location (home or office) as well as timing (meaning that you can make up some hours at night, or when you're able, so that you can run errands on occasion. -Many very interesting and talented people to work with who bring unique and fresh prospective to challenges you may be facing with you position.

Cons

Cons... There are so many cons to working for Zayo, that listing them all would take more time than anyone is going to actually read through. So I'll leave it with just this: Trust. There is zero trust in the executive management team, or their subordinate managers in between. None. Just look at the review from 6/12/2015 titled, "Great Place to be." Any current, or former, employee of Zayo can spot that this review was not written by a "line employee." It's all puppies and sunshine and a total contradiction to the way things actually are within this company, OR, that person does not exist. I encourage anyone who wishes to work at Zayo to spend some time and read through all of the reviews here on Glassdoor, and if possible, speak to any current or former employees. That way you can at least proceed into the situation with your eyes open.

1.0
Mar 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is desperate to hire, so if you have little or no experience, they will take you.

Cons

As per the pro above, they will take you and provide you no training, pay you 25-30% less than what you are probably really worth, and ask you to do things like work without the proper permits and/or work 12 hours a day for weeks on end and/or work during the day and then also work during the night. In addition, they will micro-manage your every move. Their company "values" are all about enriching the company's shareholders at your expense. You also might get the pleasure of having to call in to a "shout-down" conference call where, at the top of every hour, you will have to apprise upper management, who apparently have nothing better to do than attend conference calls all day (God forbid they actually do some of their own work!), about project status.

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