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Good salary, benefits, flexibility, but awful senior management. Too big to fail?

Senior Applications Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Verizon for less than 1 year
August 30, 2011
Reading, England
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Salary and benefits are good: life assurance, health insurance, 10% bonus, cycle2work.

Cons

As it's a big company, lots of people have been there for years and have no intention of leaving. They are using the company as a place to pass time. As there is no high employee throughput, the workplace stagnates. Senior management in the US dictate policy without listening to even the lower management. The company credo and self-publicity are stuffed down your throat.

Advice to Management

As the management level goes up, the level of competency seems to go down.

If you create an architecture team, listen to them.

Don't let marketing or your peers decide on software purchases by yourselves; take advice!

Stop listening to domestic employees who don't want to leave legacy and progress the company.

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