Granite Telecommunications Reviews

“We will never outsource”. “We don’t do layoffs”. Well guess what 2 things they are doing now? Rob brags about employee growth in his annual bragging session, then lays off 100 people with more to come, all while pretty much printing money. All ops employees are severely underpaid, while doing the work of 3 people. He is inching closer to being a $2B company and the only ones who get a piece of that are the frat boy sales teams or the lucky few that were with him when he started Granite. The WFH policy has had 3 final revisions so far, yet changes once a year. They say having people in the office is good for morale and team work. News flash, all the departments are pitted against each other and hate each other. The only reason they want everyone in the office is because they have all the cameras to watch your every move. Not a fan of mice, then you should definitely stay away. The place has had a mouse problem for 20 years and when it was brought up a recent town hall meeting, Rob brushed it off. “We are moving to another building in 8 months, deal with it. You wouldn’t fix the porch if you already sold the house” pretty sure the board of health would have a field day. Do yourself a favor and stay away.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUSNESS OF FALSE ADVERTISEMENT IN (most of) THE POSITIVE REVIEWS ON THIS SITE ~First off, the "pro" listed above is then taken as a wash because there are so many people in positions that they have ZERO understanding of what they are doing which causes HUGE inefficiencies throughout the system. (I will particularly call out the MAC/Provisioning/IWDispatch groups as causing the negative aspect of the Pro in most cases, check the leader) ~Additionally, as an opening point, Granite has undertaken an initiative to create better Web Presence online and as such, their only action so far has been to FALSIFY Positive reviews on GlassDoor which is an INJUSTICE. When you search Granite, Glass Door used to be the #1 or #2 item to appear in the search with some overall negative reviews from regular and/or former employees so their method to fix that is hire a Social Media person (internal, zero experience promotion) to do nothing more than make up positive reviews here and post some pictures on the company social media pages... ~There are so many Supervisors / Managers / Directors / VPs that play the game of favorites. This game is not just based on how easy you are to work with (yes sir, yes ma'am type of fashion) but also digs into your personal life if you happen to be a spotlight of gossip for any particular reason (no matter how true or untrue) as they will judge your work and how they treat you based on who you date or who your wife/husband is or if you have a child but are divorced or if you have a child out of wedlock or you hang out with a certain type of people or vocalize your own values that they may disagree with... etc, etc. The list goes on as to how they will segregate individuals and penalize them for personal, non-work related issues (I would go as far as saying that Ethnicity and/or Race and/or Gender negatively play a role in this as well but that is a separate topic). ~The environment is Hostile. Plain and Simple. Its hard to work with a lot of the people inside or outside of the department you may be in for the most part. Mind you, this is a generalization but I’d say about 80% of the time it holds true. If it’s not your immediate environment then it’s everyone else around your group. I generally account this to 2 factors - 1) The number of unqualified people who have been promoted over the years on account for either the Pro listed above / the favorites game or 2) the undying loyalty the CEO seems to feel towards those who started early on in the years of a very small company and stuck with him throughout (some of these people are nothing but poisonous). Again, this is not to say that those who have the motivation and drive to learn a new (unqualified) position are in this pool, just those who are promoted based on trivial purposes. ~The departments are disorganized and on totally different pages. There is rarely a unified front when it comes to new products or new business systems or new ideas. Thinking outside of the box is only allowed in very small venues of the company where only a certain few (and by a few I mean maybe 2) high level execs have appreciation for the talent of open thought and collaboration. Mostly, it’s about cutting corners and selling things before they are fully developed and then fighting the whole way through customer orders creating a terrible experience not only for the customers but for all the employees dragged along the processes. ~The CEO recently took on a “how to make Granite better” initiative (again to try and stop the poor company ratings from employees) and added a few positive things (added vision plan, changed to PTO instead of sick/vacation, added college investment plans/accounts) but really what it comes down to is bettering the pay to 2015 telecom/tech standards and allowing a flexible work schedule in the departments where feasible which will help employees create a healthy work-life/home-life balance (which is currently nonexistent no matter which department I speak with). This is not the 1940’s but working here you feel like the archaic rules, regulations, micromanagement and pay are that of the 40’s era (ok the pay might be slightly higher then the ‘40s, but not livable if you have a family in most positions). In any case, I’m sure this review will get buried by all of the false ones but hope it helps bring awareness internally as much as externally. In closing, I’ve been at Granite for a long time and have spoken with plenty of people across many departments to come to these conclusions. They are not just mine but that of a greater population within Granite so I know I’m not alone in these sentiments. Cheers.