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Flexible, But Leadership Struggles

Principal Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Comcast for 1 year
October 21, 2016
West Chester, Pennsylvania
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Not high pressure like Big 4. Quite flexible, reasonable workload, fair management (does not micromanage). Lots of transparency, standard Glassdoor salary by title, 401(k), ESPP, Medical, Dental Plan, Grants. Lots of new folks from top to down. Next-generation platforms like X1 are doing good. Great new CTO. Low to none travel. Willing to try new technology. Good work-life balance.

Cons

Not so good leadership. Lots of old-school managers running a reactive factory model, confused about whether to follow Amazon, Google, or Microsoft models. Expensive courtesy service. The bottom 3% is laid off once in a few years. Not very good at project management, with lots of wastage. Many duplicate roles and teams doing the same thing. Not an industry leader in many areas. Not so good prescription drug plan. Life is a roller coaster. Lots of contractors.

Advice to Management

If you want to change the culture, then you need to change the system. For the market cap of the firm, you need to get to the top 100 firms to work for.

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