Strong company, unique work, but a toxic, top-down environment - Anonymous employee Comcast Employee Review

3.0
24 May 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits. Company is in a strong financial position with a promising future -- the NBC merge, new building on the way, possible Time Warner purchase and the stock keeps rising. The company is taking over the world and you can feel really safe working here if you can get hired. You can work in a range of digital spaces that most people in tech don't get to touch in like TV interfaces and hardware and the products you work on are used by millions and millions.

Cons

It's a classic corporate environment with meetings where you sync, circle back, close the loop, etc. but not a lot gets done. Any big company has politics but here at HQ it reaches dangerously toxic levels. Hierarchy rules and for most middle management it's dangerous to be anything but an order-taker. Many good-intentioned middle managers and directors end up run around paranoid or angry because they are given unclear or questionable directives they can't challenge and no one has their backs.

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5.0
28 Feb 2015
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Pros

Working at Comcast has given me the opportunity to develop myself; take the time to grow and learn, and that was really important to me during the time in my life when I joined the company. If you have the drive and ambition, there are a ton of ways in which you can grow into a leader if that's what you want to be. I took advantage of the continued education benefit and am finishing my masters degree now... I also joined a couple of the employee resource groups which offer seminars and networking events that support your professional profile. Listen, I'm not a total nerd. The point of my post is that this isn't a company you join and just stay stale within. They encourage your growth, but it's up to you to make it happen. Not only this - it's pretty exciting. We're busy and we have big jobs to do. My salary is in the top percentile for my industry but not only this, I again get the continued education (which is ~$6K/year) plus free cable/internet, top health care benefits and a truly balanced lifestyle - which is rarely the case within the Tech industry.

Cons

Telling people you work at Comcast triggers 2 typical responses: 1) A big hatred rant on customer service 2) A how do I get my foot in the door? The reputation of the company is difficult, but the style of the company is to stay humble - I've never seen the company defend themselves against the harmful and discrediting news that exists. I personally think they should defend themselves a little more - they are between a rock and a hard place in many instances of service. I personally experienced visiting someone's home where the issues they were having with their connection was due to a tree root growing into the cable lines which had been their for over 20 years. Things like that cannot be diagnosed over a phone call. It's hard work in the field for sure. Being a part of the corporate side sometimes we're too disconnected from what's happening on the frontline. So I think the size of the organization comes with its complications, but again if you're a working professional looking for an exciting, robust and sexy career, you can comfortably have it here.

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