Avaya reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(3,580 total reviews)
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Alan Masarek

46% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Avaya has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,580 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Avaya employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Dec 12, 2024

A company in trouble

Recommend
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Pros

Your immediate co-workers and immediate boss are usually quality people. 1 extra star for that. The people are great and perhaps better than the company deserves.

Cons

Layoffs and more layoffs, especially in the US. Minimal raises, 401K matching is often suspended for multiple years, as are bonuses because of missed revenue targets. They are indiscriminately laying off their very best and most knowledgeable people (including cloud, not just on-prem) as they wrestle with the industry transition to CCaaS. They're not being strategic about it at all. Their cloud offers in this space are immature and behind the competition - a new position for this company who probably got complacent with their on prem revenue. Their traction in the marketplace is poor for cloud and it doesn't look like it's getting better. I wasn't a fan of Alan's (departing CEO) handling of employees but the new CEO seems even worse, since he's now getting rid of the most competent, high performing and most experienced people who successfully transitioned from legacy on-prem to cloud, and were powerhouses who won over customers. Even those who are billable and generating revenue are not immune. While they're very careful in their layoffs to meet the technical requirements of avoiding age/experience discrimination, they are definitely trying to get rid of those with experience. The C-Suite seems obsessed with the idea that there are dinosaurs in the organization that need to be removed. So anyone with a decade of company history has a bullseye on their back. Big time outsourcing of the US jobs to cheaper countries. Most of them are gone.

1.0
Jan 20, 2023

The Titanic

Recommend
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Pros

The technology was great....10 years ago.

Cons

They really don't care about employees or trying to solve their financial issues. Of the ppl who remain know they are cruise directors for the Titanic...they have let go of most of the employees who are actually woth keeping...they lay ppl off in droves all on a video call.

1.0
Jun 23, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, cell phone,

Cons

Honestly, I can’t wait until after the pandemic to leave. This company’s management is equivalent to a grade 12 thesis project. Every leader at Avaya should be looked into and their Amex should be audited, starting from the top. No one knows about Avaya, the company has no marketing no brand awareness, partners hate us. No one enjoys working here and everyone here is here because they’re waiting to retire and can’t leave because of pension. It is the most toxic environment I’ve ever been in. Avaya is not a leader in telephone and management has no idea what they’re doing.

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