It used to be a good company to work for
It used to be a good company to work for
It used to be a very high-morale, productive company with great collaboration, but not anymore.
They are outsourcing basically all IT work. Unless you are a low-paid contractor willing to work 80 hours a week, they will eventually lay you off. The IT grunts all live in fear of being fired. AT&T now has a very military "pin the blame" culture, so the contract personnel will lie to you about what happened, and that makes it very difficult to solve problems. Bosses seemed more concerned about assigning blame than solving issues.
The upper management who make the decisions to get rid of competent long term experienced employees and replace them with high turnover, fresh employees from the other side of the world only see a few dollar signs that look good initially. They have no idea of the chaos and incompetence and value destroying way things are being accomplished (or not accomplished) now.
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AT&T Interview Experiences
Senior Technical Architect
This was a slow process. It started off with an HR screen. After 6 weeks or so, they scheduled an interview with a Director and 2 Managers. The interview was good. The Director was very knowledgeable. The Managers seemed like they got the questions
Senior Technical Architect
Phone screen and F2F. Only one interview, applied through DICE. The initial phone screen was done by the manager and lead. Vendor was very involved throughout the process, right up to being there on interview day. There was a drug test, followed b
Senior Technical Architect
Phone and 1-to-1 interview. It's more related to the job you applied to, to justify your knowledge on the subject and your depth of skills. Verify what you can bring to the team you are going to join and how you can contribute to the team's success.
Senior Technical Architect
May 1, 2012This was a slow process. It started off with an HR screen. After 6 weeks or so, they scheduled an interview with a Director and 2 Managers. The interview was good. The Director was very knowledgeable. The Managers seemed like they got the questions
Senior Technical Architect
United StatesJuly 7, 2016Phone screen and F2F. Only one interview, applied through DICE. The initial phone screen was done by the manager and lead. Vendor was very involved throughout the process, right up to being there on interview day. There was a drug test, followed b
Senior Technical Architect
Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesApril 1, 2011Phone and 1-to-1 interview. It's more related to the job you applied to, to justify your knowledge on the subject and your depth of skills. Verify what you can bring to the team you are going to join and how you can contribute to the team's success.
