Verizon

• Global, huge company.
• Cutting edge in the telecommunication business and technology.
• Important benefits package and training opportunities.
• Flexible work time (*)
• Challenging tasks (*)
• Big and complex software projects (*)

(*) Experience may vary depending on development group.

Bureaucracy, as in every global, huge company.

Strict policies on development tools and software in general.

Some limitations for offshore developers (e.g., no direct production environment access).

Very stressful work, with tight deadlines and constant pressure (*).

Backfill development positions are not being recovered at a good pace, or are not being recovered at all (*).

(*) Experience may vary depending on development group.

My sensation is that the company (in particular my group) wants to keep the same throughput of projects with less and less development resources every time. The consequences are that the current developers are being overwhelmed by the work load.