Pros
I worked 6 years there, had 3 diffrent postions with T-Mobile Engineering at FSC (HQ) - Looks good on your resume. - Well-known local high tech company. - Flexible work hours. - Open and casual corporate culture. - Ability to work at home. - Offices located in Bellevue (Factoria area) easy to access from I90 and I405. - Free covered parking. - Cheap employee phone service. - Decent benefits. - Very good vacation package. - Free sodas and coffee.
Cons
The Walmart approach to the wireless. - Extremely political. - High stress level is very high at least in T-Mobile Engineering. - Moral is extremely low due to pending sellout. - Poor decision making by lower and upper managment. - No on-call compensation. - Lack of recognition - No raises even to match inflation rate. - Compensation is poor. - Unpaid overtime. - Endless confrence calls. - Most longtime employees left T-Mobile for the competition. - Poor choice of vendors. - Butt-kissing, brown-noser corporate culture. - Totally demoralizing cronyism. - No opportunities for advancement. - Biase in promotion. - Favoritism and bullying - Backstabbing people in HR - Discouraged from getting postions across departments. - Company refers to bring in managers from outside, rather than promote within. Insecure and incompetent managers, focused on their own survival-get rid of anyone who might make them look less experienced or anyone who challenged his/her way. Under qualified engineers, causing poor infrastructure design from beginning and lots re-work during the project. In result poor network and service. Many under qualified workers and who knows how to show off and got promoted. The nepotism I have seen at the hands of the T-Mobile Engineering managers is disgusting and un-American. T-Mobile is abusing H2B/ H1B visa programs to lower its operating costs.