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
Oct 7, 2015

Senior Director

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Pros

Good salary but bonus payout was not dependable. Good products but poor management. Ability to work from home. No limit on vacation at higher levels.

Cons

Toxic work environment No culture Poor and disengaged management No cooperation/collaboration across functions Bonus payout was assumed to not happen

1.0
Apr 30, 2015
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Pros

They paid well, which is the main reason people have stayed around for so long. After 18 years I had 4 weeks of time off.

Cons

Serious micromanagement! I've seen or have been myself warned about being 1 minute late. A manager wrote up a co-worker and threatened to fire him because he was supposed to have 1.45 tickets closed per hour, and he had 1.43. Goals and responsibilities are ever changing. They have no clue what they are doing since 2002. If they didn't already have such a large customer base built from the AT&T days, this company would have gone out of business. They waste millions of dollars on stupid acts like moving a hundred employees across the state for 1 year, only to move them back to the original location at a cost of 2 million dollars. Yet they can't afford to give out little paper calendars, or pens/pencils. They tried to move the work to India, where the cases just sat over night, and then returned to the U.S. engineers to actually work it. They built a new multi-million dollar office building in Argentina... and then closed it when they didn't work out. They've tried China and Philippines too. There are people who have been working at this company for 15-45 years, and yet no one asks them about what the company could be doing better. They repeat the same mistakes over and over, despite the workforce telling them it won't work, we already tried that.They stopped caring about any of the customers below their top 10 which are the major banks. They have lied and broken contracts for every customer below that. I could write several pages on all of the crap going on there, but just leave it as don't bother, or be prepared for the next job when this one goes bankrupt.

2.0
May 3, 2023
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Pros

Super flexible hours, basically unlimited PTO, and few micro-managers

Cons

Antiquated culture - might as well be the 80s in there. Very old workforce with no younger people or cross-training or innovation. CEOs and upper management have no clue how to keep up with competitors or manage company finances/debt. They've gone into bankruptcy twice while upper execs walk away with golden parachutes. Multiple promotions with the promise of a raise, but no actual raise after 3 years of verbal promises. Bosses and leadership are very out of touch with reality. They expect employees to pull off insane projects with zero resources and absolutely no regard for the work that actually has to be done, so expecting perfect execution inside of a month for a 6-month project that requires 2-3x the planned budget. Was laid off the day after labor day with 1 month's pay as payment for 8 years of service. They don't care at all about employees or their development or happiness.

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