Working at Avaya in Westminster, CO: 17 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Westminster, CO Area

"Avaya, and specifically the Solutions Interoperability DevConnect Test lab I work in, has been a great place to work."

"The people you works with are great. But the company needs to be a lot better with management and handling of the employees."

"Avaya has been a great place to work; the pay is excellent, I have flexible hours and the ability to work from home when I need to. Unfortunately there has been considerable turnover in management resulting in no clear direction."

"Good company with some bad decision makers."

"Avaya is in a constant state of change - between merging corporate cultures of Lucent and Nortel and migrating their physical leadership team from traditional New Jersey to new-age California, and their customer base off of hardware with some software to cloud-based SaaS systems that compete with Microsoft, Cisco and the like is a tall order. Very challenging environment."

"Upper management is driving the company into the ground. It used to be a great place to work. No longer. We have taken on so much debt that the company cannot afford to do future looking work."

"Overall, my experience has been good."

What do you like about working at Avaya?

"Avaya has a flexible work environment where I can work from the office or home."

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

"The company is focusing on software, virtualization, video, and whatever else is the current hot item."

What don't you like about working at Avaya?

"Recent restructuring has left employee morale low and in need of a boost."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to start paying more attention to employees and less attention to the latest fad."

"I really enjoyed the people I worked with, but senior management was poor."

What do you like about working at Avaya?

"The technology and product we build are beneficial to our customers."

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

"A strong telecom background is a significant asset to engage quickly."

What don't you like about working at Avaya?

"The many changes we have at executive management make if difficult to engage a consistent strategy and road map."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Bring in senior leaders who have more experience in telecom."

"Avaya has great growth and learning opportunities."

What do you like about working at Avaya?

"I like the many solutions to learn, and the ability to install, provision, integrate and troubleshoot many different solutions."

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

"Be honest about your abilities and in your responses to interview questions. Do a little research about the company before you interview."

What don't you like about working at Avaya?

"Avaya had finally gotten away from the good old boys club and Bell system attitudes, and turned into an agile business poised to succeed. Now Nortel and its culture is taking over and moving us backwards in some ways."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take away road blocks for your team, and allow them to do their jobs. Micromanagement is the wrong way to do business."

What do you like about working at Avaya?

"They were a strong company and I learned a lot about the phone systems."

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

"This company is good to work for. Only reason I left this company is because they sold the shipping dept to Celestica so I had to retire because I had enough service."

What don't you like about working at Avaya?

"The one this I disliked about the company was that they would have downsizing and the people that had to be laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure that they know what they are doing. Some management, I would have to train them on their position."

What do you like about working at Avaya?

"I started with Western Electric which in turn went to AT&T, Lucent, and finally became Avaya Technologies. I really enjoyed working for them but Avaya sold the shipping department to Celestica Corp."

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

"They need to have an open mind and be committed to the company."

What don't you like about working at Avaya?

"The only thing I did not like working for this company was that they had several layoffs and having to deal with these."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management was pretty good at Avaya, and most of them were good enough to train the new personnel. Some management I would have to train in some of their processes."

"Avaya has great technical coworkers. I learned a lot."