Pros: Decent salary and benefits, including employee discount on AT&T services (50% off wireless lines).

Cons: The RTO policy is 5 days/week in the office with almost no flexibility. Reports on your office presence are treated as if you're a grade schooler, even if your team is located in other cities. There are no stock options or RSUs except for high-level managers (and we're supposed to celebrate when the stock goes up). Stay away from the Bothell office because: * There's no cafeteria. Executives say they can't afford to subsidize one, so your only on-site option is a food truck, vending junk food, or bringing your own lunch. * The office is in an office park in the middle of nowhere, about a mile from the nearest transit, so you'll likely need to drive. * If you do drive, get to the office as early as you can, as there isn't enough parking. * There is no assigned seating.

Pros: Flexibility, learning, technology, people, perks.

Cons: Salary, growth, a lot of contracting, old-school thought, and a lack of training.

Pros: Mostly good people, overall good benefits, and lots of challenging projects that are consumer-facing to millions of customers.

Cons: It's a large enterprise, so by the senior management level, you are definitely treated like a number. Lots of corporate mandatory training that is basically a useless time-waster. Also, in a salaried position, you are considered management and have to take classes every few years to cover unionized worker jobs in case of a strike (and potentially have to be called up to cover during a strike). Health care coverage benefits were eroding over the years, with costs being shifted more and more to the employee. You might think stability/job security would be a "pro" for a large telco company, but there are seismic shifts going on in the business sector and lots of "surplussing" (layoffs) happening all over the organization and lots of re-organizational churn. Recent reversal of telecommuting policies.