Deutsche Telekom reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,413 total reviews)
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Timotheus Höttges

84% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Deutsche Telekom has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,413 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Deutsche Telekom 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
Aug 30, 2012

Great company to work with

Recommend
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Pros

Good management, high strategic visibility - good place to start your career. Also good employer for students who wish to work while studying.

Cons

Large MNC - business steering requires time. Processes can take long time but that itself is an interesting learning for new graduates.

4.0
Aug 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Market relevance, scale of your impact. Very interesting time of change from pure telco to service company. A lot of tallented managers and experts.

Cons

Closed corporate culture, bureaucratic style of management, not up to date with latest technologies. Lack of internal drive to change quickly.

2.0
Jul 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High worker rights for non-management and very secure contracts. (internal saying in company "not doing your job is not enough to get fired") Upper management is clever in controlling financial aspects of company to cover poor internal and inefficient operations.

Cons

Lots of high-level "visions, missions, and strategies" with very few cohesive/tangible action plans. Most people work for themselves and personal targets (even at the lowest levels). If personal targets conflict with new activity then it's like moving the Titanic to get people to contribute. Practically all the management of VP and above are the highest level of self-promoters and very rarely work with each other (lots of "Kingdoms") even when told to do so. Most management of VP and above do everything they can to remain relevant in highly redundant organisations. Internal politics is everything in this company, and everyone chooses a side. Most management decisions are made with these political considerations and not for whats best for the company. DTAG still has a long road ahead to mimic other global telecom leaders. Very, very tricky and misleading bonus arrangement. Bonuses are in the form of a salary variable which is actually a percentage of normal pay. Meaning a PM will make approx 80k but in actuality will only take home 80% of the 80k. The other 20% must be earned in personal targets. Possibility exists to reach 120% of the the remaining 20% but is very rare. Therefore bonuses actually do not exist.

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