Cogent Communications Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Don't get involved with this company!"

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

"Move on- there are much better telecom companies out there with job security and no extreme micro-management like this sweatshop!"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Extreme micro-management, lack of tech support, unorthodox recruiting methods, treating salespeople like disposable items. Turnover highest I've seen in 15 years of sales- 75% yearly!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get rid of VP and a large amount of backward thinking sales managers that love to micro-manage. Get a new head recruiter who knows what she's doing."

"ok company"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"it was a ok company"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"It was good unitl I got layoff"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need work"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"I enjoyed the challenges. The job on it's own and the people I interacted with were excellent."

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

"If you don't know your stuff inside and out, and able to verbalize it, don't bother appling, your going to be interviewed by the senior developers or admins, and they will see through any smoke screen."

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Upper management and politics, senior management changes structure every year, layoffs every year, departments rearranged every year. End result very unstable work place, and no longer term goals are every followed through with. Months of work are discarded because the management team completely changed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I recommend that the next senior person they higher has to sign a contract for 5 years so the companies longer term goals are actually followed through and completed."

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"You can set up yur own goals."

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"New consulting company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Increase visibility in the market place"

"Ok company to work off but don't do outside sales."

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Location and family like environment for individual offices."

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

"Its pretty easy to get the job but you have to work hard to get the sales, and watch your leads because others will take them"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"The sales team that worked in each office was a pretty close family, but the company was pretty impersonal. forced to travel on your own dime and reimbursed after words, the only problem that the first travel was shortly being hired. no pay day for over a month, commission payments don't come for more than a month after invoice"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't promise help, because the individual office managers are more interested in helping themselves and no one else"

"Cogent is a joke"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Nothing"

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

"Yeah Don't"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"No training, No advancement, They just bleed there employees until the next group of people come through."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Build a real company and take better care of your employees invest in them and stop drinking during lunch."

"the truth hurts"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"There is some upside potential in compensation but as they constantly change the rules of the employment contract (which they will never let you have a counter-signed copy of your own document) it's tough to sue them. Suffice to say, HQ looks out for itself, and if you find an untapped market to work, they quickly snuff it out by giving it to others which they favor and haven't been as successful as you in making sales."

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

"Avoid it unless you need a job. Take the job BUT never quit looking AND - Never turn your back on anyone as they allow clients and customers you've cultivated for years to be taken from you at the drop of the hat."

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"- Constantly redoing the comp package (4x from Jan to May in 2007). - Sales force turnover - Lack of Pacific & Latin Am market desire to satisfy customers total needs.- Lack of creative thinking...- EVERYTHING IS DONE ON THE CHEAP - Dave Shaffer (CEO & owner) doesn't want to spend HIS MONEY except w/ Sr. Leadership, who use Cogent stock options as their personal piggy banks. - Horrible moral problem since sales folks don't get all the options and the same terms to exercise the few one gets that Sr Exec get - constantly making money on the backs of the constantly threatened sales force (30 days or you're out of here)- No business development. Network development folks don't know the different companies and associated executives and thus are financially taken"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"- Change the sales quota formula from monthly to semi-annually or annually. this would retain many sales people which would then cut OpEx with the constant recruiting and training costs.- VP-Sale/Chief Revenue Officer load the force with his friends let go from his former company (MCI/UUNET). They owe him! Thus they're all yes men and Cogent is on the same path as MCI/UUNET."

"Fire and Hire, they fire people and consistently bring in new-lead generator with no potential for growth"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Building experience"

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

"Only if you really need a job, look at Cogent"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Management, business model, Rules of engagement, Outside sales is used as inside"

"I really liked working here."

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"The team I worked with, the leadership of my manager, the depth of networking work."

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

"It's been a while since I worked there but if the culture hasn't changed, they really appreciate people who are smart and capable of learning new technologies."

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"They really underpaid for the skillsets required for the NOC."

"Cogent is a sweatshop!"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"It is a small company. For this reason I was able to communicate with everyone that I needed to easily without having to go up the chain of command."

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

"don't expect to have this job for longer than 6 months"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"There was no quota relief. Meaning, that even if you are selling if Management has decided that you are not selling products deemed for your level of development in the company nor, do you get paid or have the sale count towards your rank."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Set more realistic goals and standards."

"Cogent is a pretty good company but lacked support."

"one liner"

"Funky startup"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Funky location, informal work environment"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Little opportunity for career advancement given its small size"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more heed to developers, they are not just the hired help"

What do you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"Hours"

What don't you like about working at Cogent Communications?

"hours late"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"upgrade technology"

"Good place to work."