Virgin Media O2 Reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(767 total reviews)
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Lutz Schüler

63% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Virgin Media O2 has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 767 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Virgin Media O2 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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767 reviews
1.0
6 Jul 2023
Recommend
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Pros

"Flexible working". Hard to think of anything else.

Cons

Yep, nothing good to say really. Joined last year into a newly created role (along with others), only to be made redundant as part of a mass restructure 8 months later. Never known anything like it. Environment is horrific, largely driven by a dysfunctional structure which nurtures insecurity and silo-working. Everyone fighting for their own wins, no cohesive sense of overall strategy or alignment. Management pay lip-service to "flexible working", and are all for it until you ask for it. Shameful that they promote awards, but show a different side internally. I don't mind being made redundant if it makes sense, but; a) these were NEWLY CREATED ROLES. b) when we left they had no idea what to do with our work. No-one to hand over to or any idea of the new processes they used as justification for the redundancies. The digital business is in chaos and you will not feel comfortable. I'd strongly recommend against working here.

1.0
7 Aug 2023
Recommend
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Pros

37 hours a week not a minute more Lower levels see a good team spirit Rumours the board aren’t cohesive, Liberty global and Telefonica give 8-10% payrises

Cons

Senior execs bringing in a hatchet man to cut workforce, who so far has laid off 2k this year, many more rounds of redundancy job cuts expected Bad working environment Work stress and insecurity rife Zero motivation Crappy IT, under scope under delivery over time and money Payrises a joke, charge out customers 15-20% rpi and give staff nothing

1.0
8 Sept 2023

Catastrophic since merge

Recommend
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Pros

Staff plan, not sure there’s much else anymore

Cons

It’s absolutely crazy how this company changed since the merger. VM riding off the back of O2s reputation (literally told us that in training for VM sales) Changed all the systems prior to thorough testing. Moved VM customers over before the network was capable of holding the amount of custom. Redundancies are rife within the company, I’m not sure there will be many people left soon! Incompetent Retail Support (not all- you can tell when you get through to someone who has been there a while!) Customer service is absolutely abysmal, directing customers to store for things we cannot do. No way to escalate or feed this back! Closing stores left right and centre even though there are millions of vulnerable customers who will need the support- let’s face is customer service not based in the UK cannot understand all the accents of the UK. Cancelling all franchise agreements when they end and keeping barely any of the stores.

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