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Takes care of their employees, but no longer on the cutting edge

Entry Level Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at AT&T for less than 1 year
February 18, 2015
Middletown, New Jersey
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Very friendly and relaxed company atmosphere.

Employees are outgoing and intelligent.

On top of this, it is a well-established company whose success is mostly dependent on the world relying on their legacy technology (opinion).

Great campus to work at, equipped with a gym and a cafeteria.

Management that I dealt with was always kind, understanding, and intelligent.

First experience with agile development, and I feel they adopted it well.

Cons

Stagnant environment. Many of the employees are senior, with less aggression with respect to innovation as retirement approaches. Keep in mind that I only worked in one small section of the company, and the views may be entirely different for employees working on other platforms, as it still is such a large company.

Advice to Management

You are the 23rd largest company in the world by measure of assets and revenue.

Step up to the plate and start making huge strides in innovation!

You invented the telephone, information theory, the transistor, the laser, C, Unix, and many more.

Modern computing wouldn't exist without you, and if you have any salt in your loins, you'd make sure the future of computing wouldn't as well.

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