Vodafone reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(16,793 total reviews)
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Margherita della Valle

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
3.0
Mar 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced work environment, multinational workforce, great products, standard compensation package and benefits, great place to grow and develop for fresh grads/entry-level professionals, international mobility opportunities

Cons

Extremely political and bureaucratic, technology and relationship driven, high and needless complexity, extraordinarily decentralized and unstructured for a global multinational Telco market leader, non-competitive IT salaries for middle-to-senior level management, exclusive product pricing

1.0
Mar 14, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large company with strong global reach for wireless solutions outside the US. Healthy financials give customers security a serious problem can be fixed. Base salaries commensurate with the industry while overall compensation plan is below that average.

Cons

Outside wireless services, not including the US, this company has trouble or can't deliver. Contracting process is almost impossible. Instead of promoting new ideals, legal will block something because of the "risk" of regulatory review in Europe. Lots of solutions are rolled out each year, but poor attention to product, solution, market and roll-out detail often leave the sales and support personnel incapable of delivering. Highly political to the point that incompetent people are kept based on how well they are liked and not how well they do their job. Managers fear retaliation for letting go a "friend of the president of the Americas" even if the dismissal is warranted. It's a closed group to be a "friend" having to been hired directly and not through acquisition by a British telecommunications company. All other people are subject to dismissal at a whim. It's no secret that the relationship between Vodafone who owns 45% of Verizon Wireless is strained to non-existent. Through Verizon Business, Verizon Communications competes directly with Vodafone for global non-wireless business. Verizon's demand to be in global control is such that a merger of the two companies would end up worse than the Dialmer purchase of Chrysler.

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