Verizon Communications Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"They put the family first, so that if you have a family emergency, you are allowed to go home and take care of it without worrying about your job."

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

"I knew nothing about the BlackBerry devices and they still hired me on."

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

"There was nothing that I didn't like about it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Know what all the team members are doing and keep better track of who is taking the most phone calls."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I liked the knowledge I learned and the people I met."

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

"Be honest and truthful."

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

"I was such a good worker I could not get a promotion when I got my BS degree."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When you have a qualified employee with experience and and education requirement, help them with the promotion so they will not go to a new company, and you lose a qualified employer."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like the compensation and benefits."

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

"Stay away."

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

"It is poorly managed. There is no job security, and there is unbelievable corporate greed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Die."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"It was a great company to work for."

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

"Advancement tends to take a pretty lengthy time."

"A wake-up to top executives."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like the people whom I worked with."

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

"Be honest."

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

"The company no longer has customer service or employee satisfaction as a primary goal. It's all about profit."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get back to basics. Put the customer and employees first. The profit will be there. The customers will be happy and recommend Verizon to their friends and family. The employees would be proud to be Verizon employees."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like the family atmosphere."

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

"There are limited opportunities in the Northern CA area."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest more effort toward the competition!"

"GTE is now Verizon. Good, big company place to work."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"There are lots of different opportunities."

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

"Be yourself when interviewing."

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

"It is a big bureaucracy."

"See Jane run!"

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like being able to take the customer's side, literally!"

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

"Run, run as fast as you can! If you can't run, then keep every piece of literature they give you to use against them in your future! Believe me, you'll need it!"

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

"I dislike not being able to remove the word robot from the work atmosphere!!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing, as they're only robots for upper management!"

"Lead based on knowledge, and don't try to succeed based on political manipulation."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I enjoyed the customers and the work I was able to do with them."

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

"Try to verify the competence of the management, all of it up the line, as well as your peers."

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

"Management is incompetent and struggling to find others to blame for their ineptness."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to begin leading from a position of competence rather that directing from a position of ignorance. Learn your department's function and how to inspire and train your subordinates."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like the technical challenges and freedom."

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

"Be prepared. Know something about the job and company."

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

"I dislike treatment of management versus craft."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The 1/2 levels are essential to your success. Treat them as they deserve."

"Awful place to work."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like nothing at all."

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

"Run."

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

"I dislike the crappy computer system. The program was written by morons. I dislike the lies, lies, lies from the union."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get your head out of your ass."

"Not a good place to work."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I like the benefits."

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

"I dislike the work culture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Quit."

"I would say that verizon is still a good company to work for."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"I loved working with some of the people there."

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

"They did not run a 24/7 shift which in my opinion was needed to support the network and boost worker morale."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to execute and make Verizon a more nimble company, so as to be ready to face its future competitors."

"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."

"Doing my old job as a consultant and doubling my salary by doing so."

What do you like about working at Verizon Communications?

"It is the absolute best company for which I have ever worked."

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

"Make sure you stress your interpersonal skills!"

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

"The salary was not competitive with consulting."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work!"