Avaya Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"I worked as a Systems Engineer intern to the sales and competitive team during the summer. I learned a lot and appreciated the professional experience I gained."

"Good company with some bad decision makers."

"Executive team, egotistical and has no clue how the customers think or how they are perceived by partners."

"Heavily influenced by Key Performance Indicators which are, unfortunately, often not clearly associated with job functions outside management, and have often not been announced until well into the reporting period."

"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."

"I have worked with Avaya for 4+ years now. But the company lacks in market value compensation and definitely needs more skilled recruiters.They need to retain skilled employees."

"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."

"Excellent company and excellent product. Very competitive environment with main competitor being Cisco. Avaya had a 25% downsizing of the sales force due to continued pressure on their margins, and thus my job in Dallas was eliminated. But overall, Avaya was and is a great company."

"I was working over 3 years with Avaya. It is a significant player in voice customer applications and solutions with little lesser result moving into multimedia space."

"No clear direction and lack of leadership. CEO and the VPs and not on the same page and the expectations are unreal."