Low moral in retail and low compensation. Hard to make money - Solutions Manager Verizon Employee Review

3.0
17 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Company takes care of you benefits wise health care discounts sick pay and time off

Cons

Nearly impossible now to make the money we used to, communication in different channels is terrible different answers from customer service across channels into retail. Some days you will spend hours trying to fix a mistake made by a different channel get hungover up on and told to fix it yourself but when you go to your upper management they tell you to call and try to fix it with a different channel. You deal with a lot of pretty much mental abuse from customers every day. Absolutely no staff and some days you don’t get breaks running with 1 manager and 2 reps with over hour wait times. The solutions manager role has changed to being pretty much a rep and a manager at the same time so you have zero down time to do what you need. Compensation keeps getting worse. the Moral of the the retail channel is very low since after Covid. overall high stress job do not recommend unless you want to live out of Retail as soon as possible and work hard to get to a different channel. Your commission check can drop a few hundred dollars with just one bad survey and that survey could have nothing to do with you or anyone in your store could be a rating based on calling on Verizon’s prices or the previous location they were at.

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5.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

The sheer volume of data, infrastructure, and budget allows you to build and run initiatives that you simply cannot replicate at smaller companies. While being here, we have had to solve complex, high-impact problems with strong results, the resources are absolutely here. The frontline teams and mid-level leaders (at least mine) are deeply knowledgeable technical experts who genuinely care about protecting and enabling the business. Leading people of this caliber makes cascading a vision highly rewarding, as the execution capability is top-tier. We are always striving to make the company better without compromising integrity.

Cons

Moving large initiatives or projects through a matrixed organization like Verizon requires an exhausting amount of red tape - no matter how much they want to claim otherwise. Decisions that should take days can take weeks or months due to the endless layers of alignment and stakeholder sign-offs required. This is further complicated as the company undergoes regular structural shifts, reorgs, and "strategy pivots". As a leader, a significant portion of your energy will be spent managing team fatigue and keeping folks steady through constant organizational "evolutions."

4.0
26 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is competitive but you will work very hard for it. Culture is excellent and exhibited and practiced from the top down. Benefits are excellent and cost reasonable. 401k match and profit sharing. Lots of training and professional development opportunities. Can advance if you're willing to relocate.

Cons

Company is trying to transform into what it wants to be beyond a wireless carrier (cloud?, security?, telematics?, wholesaler?, etc) and is struggling with a vision, resources, and org structure to make it a reality. Several re-organizations over last few years so job security has frequently been a question. Often delayed response to competitors caused by management's concern that acting would result in not meeting Wall Street expectations. Not the "happiest" place to work because no result is ever good enough and successes aren't celebrated because the focus is always on the next weekly/monthly/quarterly goal.

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