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Good pay, can get stuck

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Verizon for less than 1 year
February 6, 2010
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Good pay, but only if you have a good relationship with management.

Some areas are expanding and have opportunities for growth.

Cons

If you are not in one of the growth areas, there is simply no place to go – no defined career path.

In some areas, performance reviews are a complete joke, with very little effort put into reviewing the actual results achieved and who should be rewarded. This can work out favorably if you have the right relationships, or completely unfairly if you don't.

Advice to Management

The review process has lots of checkpoints, documents, and rhetoric. Carve out the time to follow the process.

Give back some budget responsibility to the lower management levels in IT. Restore trust in lower-level management, but hold them responsible for budgeting.

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