Zayo reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,288 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 1,288 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
1.0
Mar 16, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Talented individuals that are there solely because they are either fresh out of school or just recently moved to Colorado and haven't been around long enough to hear of zayo

Cons

Poor employee moral would be an understatement, although I have left slightly over a year ago my some of my colleagues that stayed report things have only gotten worse. As a STEM major working at Zayo was a nightmare as you would a MBA running an engineering or IT department with zero clue about the technical details of the everyday operations. Pay was extremely poor about 30% below market and whenever this was brought up they would lie to your about RSUs making up the difference. Besides receiving at 10k rsu package when the company went public I didn't see a raise the entire 3 and a half years I was at zayo. The engineering department is still stuck in the 90s running on outdated software and equipment whilst the dev team struggles to manage a plethora of spaghetti code that makes up the entirety of their salesforce platform.

2.0
Jul 26, 2017

It's all true...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

No one has ever thrown a rock at me or set me on fire... yet... It's also ridiculously hard to get fired, even if you're awful at everything you do. They'll just bounce you around departments until someone will tolerate you.

Cons

Everything that everyone has already said. I can't really add anything else to the overwhelmingly accurate gripes of other people's reviews.

1.0
Jun 5, 2017

Becoming Toxic

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People, flexible work environment, facilities, and location all have their place on the top of the list of pros. Underground parking to avoid those lates spring hail storms.

Cons

Too many to name. Losing faith in leadership team. Hiring from a company that failed to ever really make a profit and eventually sold to another telecom provider. Diversity a major issue, particularly at the leadership levels. Compensation not competitive. Bonus structure is set up to fail. Bonus structure based on near impossible goals which creates the feel of a "dangling carrot" that never gets any closer. Feel a bit like a greyhound on a race track chasing the stuffed bunny. Environment becoming toxic like its competitor to the south. The snowball is rolling.

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