Verizon

Verizon Wireless: Great benefits, health/life insurance, 401K match, reduced cell phone employee rate for Wireless employees, flexible time off. Four weeks vacation in 10 years. If you want to follow the management track, they encourage it. Pay for professional association memberships. Good tuition reimbursement. Good co-workers.

Verizon Wireless: They treat degreed engineers very unprofessionally and do not provide any technical advancement track. If you are not interested in a management track, the company looks down on you. Training is provided in a hit-or-miss fashion. It's very hard to get a performing rating, which makes many engineers feel like failures. They typically point fingers for issues. They do not prepare new management with proper people skills.

Realize that you are where you are because of us below and treat us properly. In the early days, Verizon Wireless was a good place to work, but now that Verizon Inc. has taken over, we are treated like failures. Look hard at the performance-based environment; is it really getting what you want? Are employees pawns to be beat up in the EOY review because some director does not like them? It really happens, and more you realize. We want to succeed badly, but constantly telling us we are wrong and failures will not get you there. Stop; look at each region; don't assume.