Allegiance Telecom Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Allegiance was a wonderful place to work, but they were bought by XO that had a differrent management style."

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Management was encouraging. They provided their staff with the tools to get the job done. I team-oriented environment. Relaxed, but productive atmosphere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No suggestions for Allegiance, but XO managers need to quit trying to manage by fear."

"Tough industry."

"I am looking for a position in which I would have a territory to work in and I would be in charge of keeping current business and building new business."

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"I liked that I was able to learn the basics of Outside Sales by actually and I was able to learn by actually bringing my sales manager with me for the first couple of my scheduled appointments. This made me feel very comfortable with my selling techniques and any questions that I had, I was always able to ask my sales manager directly following the meeting with our business client. Since this was very effective, I learned business to business outside sales from the beginning."

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"I was not crazy about working in the Telecommunication field in general, although I was able to learn many interesting facts that I can use later in life with the sales aspects that I learned."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think that the management was all very close at Allegiance Telecom, both during and after work. This could be positive and negative, but in their case, it worked in their favor since they were all very comfortable calling each other and letting each other know how deals were going at every point of the way."

"Good company , Went out of Business"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Great start up in the .com years"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Moved from city to city LA , Oakland San jose"

"Managemnet was hard, and expected workers to work 7 days per week."

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"This was my first management experience and I enjoyed coaching and mentoring my sales reps."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"jahve examples and be aggresive in sales"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Working 7 days a week did not allow for Family Time and balance in my life."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"work hard Monday through Friday."

"Good starting caeer"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Fairly good mentorship"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Hard work"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Better descriptions of benefits of using their service"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better training"

"They went out of business in 2002 so I can't recommend the job to anyone"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Flexibility, career advancement opportunities, my boss"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"There was a high turn over in management"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"fast paced."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask for the position."

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"Poor service."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire the right people."

"great place to work"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"good people"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"it did not last long"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"The diversity of the technologies you got to work with."

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"The lay-offs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Tact is a GOOD four letter word. When paired with compassion it can work wonders."

"company was sold"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"I was an over achiever, got monthly awards for my performance"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"mentality of used car sales management instead of a soluction based sales"

"Business is insolvent"

What do you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"It was my first sales job, so it was exciting and challenging at the same time"

What don't you like about working at Allegiance Telecom?

"It was micro managed and now out of business"