Lumen reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(7,781 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Lumen has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 7,781 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lumen 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
Aug 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits plan, no weekends

Cons

You have to be able to set aside your ethics to meet sales goals. Century Link routes most calls through sales to make sure every caller is offered something. They call it Customer Service, but really, you're in the Sales department. The managers know sales and that's it. They expect you to handle complex billing and service issues by feeding the customer some BS and upgrading them. There is no quality control. You are not required to disclose important information such as contract terms, taxes and fees as long as the customer doesn't ask.

1.0
Jul 16, 2013

The management team seems to be in over their head.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The best part is the friends I've made there amongst my peers. The benefits are decent. I'm thankful for the union.

Cons

CTL management seems to be in over their head with the acquisition of Qwest. The acquisition moved them into a very competitive market and it seems they were not prepared. They have resorted to a micro-management style in an attempt to keep their heads above water. CTL also insists on using vendors for some of the call center work who are poorly trained. Much of my job has become fixing the mess a vendor created (somehow the company is still convinced that vendors are saving us money). Not only is the quality of work poor from vendors, the customer service is as well. We get many complaints from customers who get transferred numerous times to reach the right department and who are given misinformation along the way that the more seasoned reps then have to dismantle and give the right info to the customer. All this takes repeated call backs from customers. We are seeing problems crop up with internet as well. Fiber doesn't do too well over copper. More and more of our customers are getting rid of our internet because we cannot get it working right for them. BTW, if you get a tech in the Philippines their answer is to send out a new modem (that's what happens when you stump the Philippine band (and it's fairly easy to stump them)... it must be the modem!. CTL's unifying principles and core values are a joke. Upper management needs to follow them and lead by example. Basically they are about 4 decades behind the times as to the most productive way to lead an organization. They need to take their marbles and go home.

1.0
Sep 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Communication Workers of America fighting for workers to receive a fair median wage, benefit and better work place with much resistance from mgmt. -FCC and PUC regulated... but where are they?

Cons

-Forced to change internal systems to Centurylink's that require 5 times more manual work, losing information in the compilation thus giving false reports for exec mgmt to view. -Exec mgmt raping company financially -CTL's upper mgmt has arrogant attitude. I have heard first hand in meetings 'we took you over' you are dolng it our way, which is reinventing the wheel. -CTL has no regard for it's employee's, only those in the exec branch making $41 million each in 2011. Truly an ole boys club. -Offshore vendors used, Contractors used. They have no vested interest and do a terrible job when dealing with customer's. -They expect one pay to fit all geographic area's. Who can live on minimum wage? Do they not know that $30k annually is considered at poverty?

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