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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1.0
Dec 6, 2016
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Pros

There are only two good things about working at Avaya: working from home and there are some good people stuck there in dead end jobs.

Cons

I work in Professional Services and all management cares about is time reporting, expense reporting, adherence to useless forced training, and other administrative work. Little weight is put to the important stuff like quality of work and customer satisfaction. As a result, the creative thinkers who do high quality work either leave voluntarily or are forced out by management. What you're left with is hundreds of people who are only good at administrative tasks and that's what makes up the entire Avaya workforce. More and more jobs are being shipped to low cost staff in India and South America; you get what you pay for. The products have too many issues and the product documentation is lacking useful and contextual information. Product training for technical resources is non existent; instead we are forced to suffer through marketing and sales training and then expected to be product experts who know the ins and outs of the product and technical implementation. There’s no career development. Zero potential, zero growth, zero support. Work here if you want a dead end job and care very little about your career.

1.0
May 7, 2016

Marketing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some highly competent and intelligent people who have helped keep a dangerously lean marketing organization afloat. The pay was average for the technology sector but the benefits were not.

Cons

The consistent headcount cuts and rotating CMOs have left the organization in shambles. Those left in marketing are faced with long work hours, dwindling resource and are at the mercy of a CMO who is desperately trying to prove value to the C-suite at any cost. Employees are burning out, the good ones are leaving or on the verge of leaving and the quality of work is suffering. The phrase "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" was commonplace, and that, frankly, is not a good sign. Beyond marketing, the company has been struggling financially and not matching 401Ks due to a lack of revenue. Avaya was downgraded by Moody's as well and the ship seems to be sinking. The latest round of layoffs have left gaps in key business areas that will not be filled.

1.0
Apr 27, 2016
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Pros

Some genuinely talented people and great products (both are languishing for lack of investment over the last few years) Customers still value our products and we could continue to be a powerful brand with the right leadership. Work-Life-Balance could be a strength if it wasn't for the fear culture of proving your doing your hours and unreasonable expectations. Our size should mean that we naturally have an entrepreneurial outlook and behaviours - instead, creativity, agility and positivity is being damaged from within.

Cons

Probably the worst cultural environment I've worked in, ever. Was once a great company to work for 5 years ago, but now words such as bullying, marginalisation and discrimination come to mind in the way people are treated. I've seen some really good colleagues leave, some under dubious circumstances. Front line sales run into the ground whilst management appear to promote their crony friends. There is very little trust left in management and leadership, as evidenced by the candid reviews by other colleagues versus the planted 'positive' reviews by some management on this site. Better careers elsewhere.

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