AT&T Reviews

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Quality brand, big investor (in services and people), quality products.

Cons – Still too US focused. Big learning cure to understand/work internal processes. Limited carear prospects outside US.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big established world number one telecommunication company.

Cons – Segregation of duty is down to details.

Advice to Senior Management – NA

I have been working at AT&T

Pros – Good pay, Great perks, Especially if you are a manager

Cons – Plenty. But mainly stems from a disrespect of people. This leads to all kinds of unnecessary behaviour, like cloak and dagger business change plans, subverting line management, hiding bad decisions as a "need to know", calling people victims when it is clear a denial of accountability for actions.

Advice to Senior Management – Show some respect. Give your people ownership and accountability. Then your business will run.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at AT&T

Pros – They offer a good benefits package, with ample vacation. There is a flexibility to work changeable hours if you need to leave early or come in late, and generally treated as a professional without too much complaint. However, senior manager has been heard to state " Im the teacher, you are the schoolkids" which is not a phrase a good leader should ever utilise.
Team cohesiveness is great, the average engineer has a teamspirit that keeps everyone going. Everyone chips in to help each other, to achieve the goals laid down. Relaxed environment, always able to fit in short pieces of "personal" activities during a day without complaint.

Cons – Expectation to give up personal life to meet senior management expectations. They dont want to hear "cant".
Have a need to have "Yes Men" in significant positions, and do not take kindly to realistic communications sometimes

Advice to Senior Management – Listen better to your teams. If they say something cant be done, it usually has a very good reason. We want to succeed, without breaking the customer, and this is often overridden.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits and diverse workforce.

Cons – Management is very detached from day to day business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at AT&T full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – AT&T hires great people & they work very hard to help employees balance work and life. Their telecommuting plan is outstanding the benefits are maneagable & the salary isright in line. They work very hard to hire within the organization

Cons – As is typical with large organizations you may have to leave and come back to keep your salary current with the industry. It is really hard to get in from the outside.

Advice to Senior Management – in an effort to keep good employees they went througha period of promoting employees to managers so there is a large groups of managers that do not know how to manage and/or help employees grow their careers. There is an extremely high-level of contractors who have been with the company for a very long time there are lots of employees who would be qualififed and interested in those positions rather then being let go.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Ability to work in numerous different areas
The people at AT&T are your social network
Good benefits and salary
Opportunity for career growth

Cons – Bureaucratic
Slow to adopt new technologies
Regulations slow innovation

Advice to Senior Management – People are buying in more now to the corporate strategy than ever, work even harder to gain their trust and provide the right opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great compensation if you perform well. You get to play with the latest and greatest devices as well as a great reward program.

Cons – High Stress job and not for the faint of heart. If you can handle the stress you can make a lot of money.

Advice to Senior Management – Grow and develop talent and don't push unrealistic goals.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than a year

Pros – There is a lot of very nice people to work with, benefits are great, any tool you need is provided

Cons – very long hours, no life/work balance, you are judged by numbers only (which are oddly calculated)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at AT&T full-time for more than a year

Pros – Experience in a big company. Easy to get in.
the company parties/events are fun but they should happen more often.

Cons – Low Salary. The upper management couldn't care less about us, they just want good numbers. I recently moved to a 2nd level position but the salary remained the same as in 1st level.
with lots of people leaving the group we were many times understaffed and the workload would be too much!

Advice to Senior Management – higher and fair salaries would increase productivity!!
letting people go to other companies instead of raising their salaries is also a stupid move...the new guys never know what the others knew.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend