AT&T Employee Reviews for Director

"If your over 40 your career is over at this company. This last year they did a market analysis to adjust salary bands and my band cap was reduced by 20k annually. This band determines how annual pay raises are apportioned. I feel I have wasted too much time on a company that values shareholders infinitely more than employees."

"I have worked for AT&T since 1989. I love the strong interest in technology that I have experienced with team members. Since AT&T is such a large company I have experienced extensive opportunities for diversity in work environments. I have been able to work in start-up, sustaining, and international environments during my time with AT&T. I have also been able to live in several different locations experiencing different local cultures."

What do you like about working at AT&T?

"There were many good people at AT&T, but they were overshadowed by inexperienced poor management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Avoid taking a position at AT&T unless you absolutely need the income. Be prepared to hear negative comments from management even when projects are going well and the company is making high profits. Management strives on threats to get more work out of people though if management were educated they would know you get more work out of content employees by treating them fairly and recognizing them when they perform well. Management needs to earn respect from employees."

What don't you like about working at AT&T?

"The job was always about the money and never about the employees. Management constantly threatened layoffs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be respectful towards employees. Hire quality management; stop promoting and hiring managers who are tyrants. People are always more important than money. The long-term sustainability of a business depends on that business's ability to maintain the highest standards of personal and collective integrity and ethics."

"AT&T has too many layers of management, and none of them work in sync."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus more on your clients."

"Upper management that I worked hard for and respected left the company. Inexperienced management is now running IT."