AT&T reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(41,992 total reviews)
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John Stankey

44% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

AT&T has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 41,992 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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42K reviews
1.0
Mar 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I was so excited to get this job and was proud to be with a company like AT&T and I believe as a whole it is a good company. However, the toxic culture in their sales channels is intolerable.

Cons

Micromanaged is an understatement. Was required to report to the HUB frequently as punishment for not trending to goal as early as the 4th day of the month. Reporting in person at 7:15am no matter where you live. Over 60 miles for me which meant leaving for work at 6am and expected to go to dispatches until 5:30pm. Expected to work as late at 9-10pm if closing. Manager would text and call after work hours and on scheduled off days and if you didn’t answer/respond you would be punished with having to report to HUB in person as early as 7am. Was routinely subjected to group calls where team members who weren’t trending to goal are called names, made fun of, and threatened to be fired. At 5 months in I was 5th in tenure/seniority on a 13 member team. No one at my 3-team super HUB had been in their position longer than a year, including mangers. Major red flag

3.0
Sep 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AT&T will hire you without prior sales experience. The base pay and commissions are good. Benefits are excellent if you work at a corporate store. They are unionized.

Cons

You will be shown training videos that tell you to always act in the customers' best interest and never upsell them on things that won't help them or hide upgrades within a rerate. However, in practice, these are precisely the things that you will have to do to meet your quotas for upsells on things of dubious value to the customer (e.g. AT&T's cloud storage instead of iCloud) or dual-line phone plans for people who in reality do not use that much hotspot to begin with or are not business people who would benefit from a second line. Yet you flog that multi-line discount and present it as a cost-saving move. Put new phone installments on that new line so they can't get rid of it without lump-sum paying off the phone. Shady stuff like that is how you get ahead. However, if an aggrieved customer should unthinkably find issue with these things after the fact, then you are on the chopping block. So you will find yourself between a rock and a hard place (and perhaps a guilty conscience).

5.0
Aug 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Love the customers, lovely work environment, working under a grander business corporation, as well as working with and alongside other corporate AT&T locations for shifts exchanges and cover, as well as interoperability with Corporate Internet and Phones alongside Fiber and FirstNet for first responders under the tutelage of corporate responders.

Cons

Hours are 10:00AM - 09:00PM, for those looking for late night or early morning shift. Full-time would be preferred to Part-Time. Operations would come with paid training that does not allow for other training from the corporate offices and AT&T University, since they prefer a single focus, this would be cause for reprimand.

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AT&T Response
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Thank you taking the time to submit your review. We love to hear you’re having a great experience connecting our communities and learning about the impact of our business. Meeting our customers sometimes means early mornings and late nights. We understand this can be difficult and will continue to evaluate our operations and benefits to best suit our team.
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