Vodafone reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(16,793 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Vodafone has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 16,793 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vodafone employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecomunicazioni industry (3.6 stars).

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17K reviews
1.0
May 31, 2016

A different take on values

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Newbury campus has ducks and pretty little meeting pods

Cons

Vodafone purports to be the sum value of it's people and this rings out to be very true indeed. They operate a 'bell curve' come review time within which most staff will be fine, a few will excel and a few will fall short and be heading for the door. This is conducted per department and no matter how well anyone is doing, they still have to make a 'bell curve'. So in effect you see a lot of internal competition amongst staff resulting in some toxic atmospheres and very little team work. Review focus is on how you are performing against others and less so on the task in hand, as one of the measures is you against others in terms of personality, or as they label it 'behaviour'. This all results in Vodafone failing in customer service and other areas such as 'Newco' (buzz word for a new system), despite them focusing on it for years. Couple this with an undiluted focus on profit at the expense of customer service and valuing their staff, then you can see where the true values are for Vodafone. They are solely on profit delivered through poorly focused, anxious and ever competing staff.

2.0
Apr 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Fair salary. - Good employee benefits.

Cons

- They take advantage of you by making you do a manager job but don't sign you off or increase pay. - Development is very slow - nothing you do is ever good enough

3.0
Apr 11, 2016

Chaotic, Frustrating yet Compelling

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Vodafone is generally a good company to work for. Pay is excellent, benefits are superb and include 28 days holiday, share-save scheme which nets you £2,000 a year, Free Mobiles and Broadband. Some find it easy to progress through the ranks, if their face fits and they are good at managing upwards (as with most corporates).

Cons

Chaotic company with no strategy and poor middle management. There are some really nice chickens working for Vodafone, but most are headless and cluck a lot. Budgets come and go, plans are made and remade and remade again. Product launch dates get pushed back, and pushed back, then batted into the long grass. No clear ownership or responsibility. Manage by committee. Everything done on a shoe string and cobbled together just to get products out of the door. Quantity rather than quality approach.

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