Working at Verizon Communications in Arlington, VA: 5 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Arlington, VA Area

"The company is very favorable to work, but due to the merger with GTE, the work force was reduced."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"Very good company to work for"

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

"The top management should make themselves aware of their employees' performance."

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

"The top management does not make themselves aware of the middle management working efficiencies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be aware of the worker' efficiencies and effort."

"Stressful."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"The one good thing I enjoyed while working at Verizon was its very generous continuing education program. The company paid up front the full cost of any accredited program an employee chose to attend, as long as it was a business or IT related program. There were no limits to how much the company paid for a program. Of course this program was too good to be true and the program dramatically changed."

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

"Know exactly what you're getting into. It is a cut-throat environment."

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

"Everything is about the bottom line. There have been layoffs/RIFs (Reduction in Force) since 2000. Morale is awful. There is a general feeling that management doesn't care about its employees and views them as bodies and numbers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest in your employees. View them as persons. Over the years Verizon has lost a number of technical talent and knowledge through indiscriminate RIFs and defections."

"Look at me now."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"Not much. Once I got in and learned about their management, I couldn't wait to leave."

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

"I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone I know or who happens to read this. People have been leaving like flies. My current company has hired four people from Verizon FNS."

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

"I dislike the drive into Arlington."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I was promised a promotion with equal compensation and the VP at the time reneged on his promise and told me that they had to hire more minorities. That didn't sit well with a white man."

"Pretty good."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like that it is a Fortune 500 company."

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

"I dislike the bureaucracy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest more into employee education."

"I retired from Verizon Communications after 36 years. I was glad to retire."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"There was challenging work there. And, I had a variety of jobs. I had to reinvent myself several times."

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

"There wasn't a clear path for advancement and things were too political at times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have a clearer path to upper level management."