Windstream Communications Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Opportunity to learn and grow as a professional."

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"The people are friendly and down-to-earth. I also enjoy providing the services my group is responsible for."

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

"You need to be yourself and be knowledgeable of the position you are applying for."

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

"There is little room for career advancement with my current position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to have better ideas of what the groups are responsible for and how everything works."

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"The people I work with and the friends I've made"

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

"Don't go into the benefits dept or be associated with a non-revenue producing area"

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

"Management is slow to make final decisions, but still expect the staff to make it all happen with not enough time to do a good job and management makes decisions that require manual processes to administer"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let the employess come before the sharholders every once in a while"

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"using cutting edge tech in ever changing multI tenant environment"

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

"If they seem interested don't take first offer, they have more money, go for another 10-15k per year"

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

"lack of vision when it comes to keeping employees paid enough so they don't start to look for jobs, even if they can't pay same as offers"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"it would make sense to increase pay to point that the employees never look."

"Somewhat challenging but undervalued as an employee."

"Great place to get your feet wet in sales and marketing"

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"Freedom to think outside the box, problem solve and create opportunity."

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

"Come to work everyday ready to succeed and you will..."

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

"Advancement based on seniority not drive or productivity"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"none, as a company Windstream was one of the best run I have worked for."

"Business model wasn't stable and they were very volitale."

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"I liked working with engineers and I had done some consulting work for them in years past when they had first been sold from GTE. Valor was where my IT career started and I enjoyed working for them."

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

"Nothing just be your self."

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

"They were losing money....they never really became profitable after GTE sold them and eventually 2/3 of there workforce was let go. They were then sold to windstream as they are today. I still keep in touch with the friends I made there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing really...had they been profitable I would still be there."

"Interesting"

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"Sales, management and Technologay"

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

"Make sure you are willing to sell"

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"The Operations Manager is prejudice and the Network Operations department only has 2 or 3 actual educated technicians. Everyone else was hired because of race and association. Windstream does not respect diversity in any sense of the word. If you are not from Mountain Home, AR or Greensboro, AR you won't get a job in Network Ops. He only wants to hire people that he can control or that he knows personally from his earlier days as a technician."

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

"First and foremost you will not get hired unless you are a White American and you must keep your head down and do your work and dont ask too many questions about training"

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

"The technology was good but no one would train me because I was an African American. Everything I learned there I had to grab a book and just start reading."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get rid of the Operations Manager because he uses Good Ole Boy tactics to get things he want done in Little Rock, AR and the surrounding areas."

"Different"

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"Interesting work and great team of people. I liked coding in MySQL, PHP, and VB"

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

"Could be a bit too task oriented and end up alienating staff."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, this company was bought up by an investment company for its publishing contracts."

"Norlight lost its shine"

What do you like about working at Windstream Communications?

"When first hired it was owned by Journal and the best place I'd ever worked at. Wonderful environment and the technology was implemented very well."

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

"Norlight was purchased by QComm and completely ruined. They forced the IT department out, they have cut benefits, make people work 50 hour work weeks and the CFO has to sign off on everything done for the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change the business model, it doesn't work for CitiGroup so why should it work for your company"