Great salary, benefits, and work-life balance but heavily bureaucratic and favors long timers - Anonymous employee Verizon Employee Review

2.0
1 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary and benefits above market rate Generally really good work / life balance (few emails sent Friday - Sunday) but if something urgent comes up you have to handle it immediately regardless when it happens.

Cons

Extremely bureaucratic, every decision, even minor, needs to be run by your manager and multiple other people from other functions. When the layoffs come they get rid of all the early tenure people with great energy and ideas for improving the company and protect the long timers who put in the minimum and will never make waves to try to improve anything. No job security, so can't recommend it to a friend/family because they are in a death spiral now that they hired an unqualified Tech Bro to run the company and they'll continue to shrink in market share, revenue, and number of employees. You must be based in a hub location in NY or a specific site in TX to be considered for any kind of career advancement.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Compensation is competitive but you will work very hard for it. Culture is excellent and exhibited and practiced from the top down. Benefits are excellent and cost reasonable. 401k match and profit sharing. Lots of training and professional development opportunities. Can advance if you're willing to relocate.

Cons

Company is trying to transform into what it wants to be beyond a wireless carrier (cloud?, security?, telematics?, wholesaler?, etc) and is struggling with a vision, resources, and org structure to make it a reality. Several re-organizations over last few years so job security has frequently been a question. Often delayed response to competitors caused by management's concern that acting would result in not meeting Wall Street expectations. Not the "happiest" place to work because no result is ever good enough and successes aren't celebrated because the focus is always on the next weekly/monthly/quarterly goal.

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