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Ok company to work for

Technical Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at AT&T for less than 1 year
March 17, 2009
Alpharetta, Georgia
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

Flexibility of work. Availability of training resources. Pension plan. Plenty of variety in work. Opportunity to do your work your own way. Good vacation time. Plenty of employee discounts available. Just like in any large company, there are plenty of opportunities and different places you can be at if you have the drive and the goals to do so.

Cons

No good benefits. Problems in getting a promotion. Too much politics. Crazy work hours sometimes. Long hours, out-of-touch management, lack of support. The downside is the repetitive, boring, and frivolous training. Most of it seems to come from corporate lawyers to reduce their liability. Some bad blood between management and its workforce because of the unions.

Advice to Management

Pay attention to a person's ability (do not practice favoritism).

Look at your group; award the top 30% of the people who do most of the work in terms of salary, bonuses, etc. Instead of just giving averages due to legal reasons or inertia, you may actually find that more work gets done.

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