All downhill after Charter Acquisition - Principal Engineer Spectrum Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2017
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Some flexibility depending on your department. Moderately competitive salary. Good 401k matching. Decent healthcare benefits.

Cons

This place went from best job ever to truly abysmal after Charter acquired Time Warner Cable. There are a lot of politics and in-fighting, an obvious lack of respect for key employees, an extremely siloed organizational structure, and a top-heavy management structure. Most of the best talent trickled away after the merger. Depending upon the management chain, departments range from appalling in their treatment of employees to mostly reasonable, but any upside is largely negated by a rigid, strictly dictated from the top-down "one size fits all" management approach. Even the Senior Directors seem to lack much ability to affect change at all. The technological and architectural decision making has become a joke and everyone knows it, but middle management does not seem to have any power to change this or the ability/courage to push back. Virtually all of the good management who spoke up against some of the more silly decisions being made were promptly run off. Things are incredibly disorganized and cross-organization communication is virtually non-existent. Virtually everyone I interface with seems to agree on one thing -- that the problem comes from the top.

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Spectrum Response
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Our recent merger has been somewhat of a process, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Please know we are working to make this process more organized and easier for all of our employees. We would love to hear your feedback on this process so that we might improve it moving forward. Please contact us directly. Thank you!

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