Lumen reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(7,785 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Lumen has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 7,785 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
Apr 29, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Reasonable benefit package. Good vacation. Not too high-stress. Given opportunities to grow and succeed. Lower-level management is generally quite good and good to work with.

Cons

15 years of continually shrinking business. Management steering company towards more and more offshore work. Shrinking benefits. Long-term pay suppression. Limited career opportunities outside Monroe, LA. 15 years of cost cutting (buying our own office supplies, etc) gets old!

3.0
Apr 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I liked my co-workers a lot and there are some very smart people. I learned a lot from them, but rarely were smart people promoted. Outside Monroe, people are mostly looking for other jobs or just putting up with the politics because they are tenured and have great benefits (many have 6 weeks of vacation now and good severance packages after being with the company for 20 years). One Pro is that they brought in a new COO and CMO in March 2016.. the hope is they will makes some changes for the better.

Cons

too many to list (see "advice to management for more info)... antiquated ordering/billing systems make this a dinosaur of a company. It's nearly impossible to launch products, fix problems or measure results accurately. I felt like I was banging my head against the wall. The cost to fix these issues is so exorbitant that all "migration" plans are eventually killed. Don't expect any level of training.

2.0
Apr 9, 2016

All talk and no action

Recommend
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Pros

The people I directly work with are great as are most of the employees and managers, who are personable and approachable. I am not micro managed at all in my position.

Cons

Where to start. We offer a completely terrible customer experience. I have not seen a single smooth implementation in the 2+ years I have been here. They told us in January that the number one focus is to improve our customer experience and two months later they announce we are not hitting our quarterly number so we will have to lay people off, just like they did last time and the time before etc. Leadership embodies the definition of insane; keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. And then there's the suspicious behavior of never getting anyone's commission check correct and always in their favor. It is so complex that us engineers can't understand it so we are pretty sure they hired the same folks that wrote the US tax code, just to make sure they could keep money back without being caught, which I suspect they believe provides shareholder value. In fact it's not that hard to understand, it's just impossible see how it is calculated and how to prove it one way or the other. They are also the cheapest company I have ever worked for. Being questioned about mileage charges and meals and then having to complete both a spreadsheet and an online form in a secure system with exactly the same information. It's as though they want to make travel hard so you just don't do it.

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