Verizon reviews

Dismal treatment of contractors, continuous offshoring and layoffs that cause low morale, extreme overtime, total chaos due to inadequate management. As a contractor & former employee of Verizon Business (the former MCI / WorldCom), I see the work environment keeps deteriorating. It used to be a great place to work when it was MCI! WorldCom ruined it. The merger with Verizon has improved things somewhat, though.

1. Intense unacknowledged job fear across all personnel levels. 2. Ridiculous habits of overscheduling meetings. Many execs are expected to participate in 3-9 concurrent meetings and pretend this is productive. 3. Company outsourced thousands of solid US jobs away to India. The result is 1 solid US person gets replaced by 2-3 who in turn get in their families and friends into the company, resulting in much higher costs, willfully added complexity. 4. I've sat in Zoom conference meetings with up to 100 people from India sitting on the call, billing the company for just sitting there, while only 4-5 people actually work and solve matters. 5. The company, like many other "American" companies, present a pretend American facade and handfuls of US top execs, but inside, almost all personnel is now Indian with intense cultural loyalties mostly to their own.