AT&T reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(41,993 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

AT&T has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 41,993 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AT&T employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telekommunikation industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Jan 10, 2017

Lots of layoffs right now

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company was a great place to work. They had excellent benefits including medical, dental, 401k, tuition reimbursement, etc...

Cons

Finding a new role can be difficult, due to the sheer size of AT&T. Jobs that get posted on the internal job site, are frequently filled before they are posted. If you have excellent networking skills, you can get ahead of this process, and do well in the company. The recent and upcoming mergers, are resulting in a very high number of lay-offs of well qualified people. Decisions on lay-offs are frequently determined by HR with little to no input from managers. Decisions are often made due to location or other metrics that are difficult for an employee to change.

2.0
May 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, free phone service, in depth training

Cons

Over the years compensation has decreased greatly but quotas keep going up and are harder to hit because there are so many reps on the floor. I worked for AT&T for 10 years. I was the best in my city for customer service. I never got a customer complaint and continuously received 100% on my customer feedback scores. I worked harder then most people would ever think of working but I got fired for not meeting my numbers. I honestly believe that the real reason they fired me was because I made to much hourly and they felt that that was the reason why I did not try to meet quota. After 10 years of giving this company my all the cast me to the curb... One year later they tracked me down and basically begged me to come back, at a much lower base pay of course.

1.0
Aug 20, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is one of the largest US based places to work, and everyone has heard of AT&T. If all else fails, working at AT&T will be a good asset to have when looking elsewhere. Because of the size of the company, the potential exists to be exposed to a number of diverse areas within the company that might not be possible in a smaller company. The benefits that are provided to employees seems to diminish every year, but given the current economic situation, the benefite are still probably better than average. Job security seems to be a bit better as well. It seems when cutbacks are announced, they are almost always voluntary, and the company appears to try to make reductions through attrition.

Cons

The number one downside is this company's upper management tends to run the company like a dictatorship, and employee's opinions are discarded. Morale is about as low as I've ever seen it in my over 15 years at the company. For those of you reading this review that are not employees, would you believe that the world's largest telecommunications company does not allow its employees to work from home? Our leaders could save the company millions of dollars a year (reduced real estate, for example), and employees would save money spent on gas, not to mention we could actually have more time to do our jobs. Not to mention, tons of fewer CO2 emissions. Why does AT&T not want employees to telecommute? I wish I knew. Another downside is we appear to be on our way to receiving significantly lower or no bonus at all next year. We are given a short e-mail saying we will be measured on three targets. Currently we are below all three. That's it. Soooo, are we at all close to making any of them? Is it hopeless? What should we be doing to make the targets? Is it possible the targets were deliberately set too high so as to be unattainable?

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