Flex

Budget and time allowed for training, seminars and professional development is tight so you will need to pursue continued education and learning outside on your own.

-Work-life balance -Everything is urgent -Micromanagement -80% of the tasks are done by 10% of the people involved and recognition is directly inverse to the tasks done.

Fewer Chances of promotion due to a high amount of team.

Not much room to growth

Can give employees a chance to work in all departments

The company has a low profit margin (somewhere in the 2 to 3% range). As a consequence, it operates very lean and this has a direct impact on resource availability and work life balance. Work life balance can get seriously out of whack. It depends what is your position in the company. At the manufacturing sites, for instance, the MEs and PMs are driven pretty hard. Very long hours. Very thin on resources. As a global PM, there can be a lot of travel (often international) involved, varying widely from 20-30% to close to 90%. Keeping tabs on programs overseas also means long days and late night calls with overseas facilities. Continuously changing company, always in some state of flux. The organizations within the company seem to undergo continuous changes with large changes (re-orgs) every few years Compensation is lower than you would see at Google or other Tech company.

Not very many downsides to mention. Other than current work conditions of over crowding, but that is a good thing to do work load and growth. Line of communication from customer thru management to project team to engineers could be more clear at times, but that is typical of most ways of business in the engineering field.

So far no issues all good

Being laid off 4 months after hire.

Verizon expects more of you than their own employees Unreachable goals Benefits don't match Verizon's No time off Nov. 1-Jan 31st. Too much secrecy