Verizon

Good people to work with. You're given a fair amount of autonomy. The salaries are decent - probably around the industry midpoint, but the pace of work is quite civilized. The job is not constant high pressure, although customers do want their money's worth of support and operational managed services. Benefits package is relatively good.

Verizon is very large and bureaucratic and, as such, suffers from a lack of accountability.

Decision-making at the lower levels is very fragmented.

Real communication around the business is lacking; mostly, it's just sales/marketing fluff.

The building is old, and many things need repair.

You focus too heavily on cutting costs and not enough on providing a quality product. Cost cutting and layoffs are not the only tools to increase profitability. Keep an eye on costs for sure, but try shifting some of the focus on letting your people provide a much better customer experience and let revenues rise faster than costs.