Vantaggi
Verizon has great pay and benefits. The company brand is well known and looks good on a resume. Probably the best corporate job I've ever had overall.
Svantaggi
Outdated culture. We have a great advertisement machine.(2nd largest ad spend in the US) however, internally, it feels very much like the old telephone company prior to the split up of the baby bells in 1984. This culture problem produces the remainder of my comments on "Cons" as follows: No real focus on innovative creative ideas. They all either cost too much or don't produce instant revenue, therefore they don't see the light of day. Revenue generation is always the priority and exceeds customer experience ever single time as a objective. A coin toss would yield better results in this area. Headcount reduction / RIF / Layoffs seem to be a quarterly occurrence over the past 3 or 4 years. Yes, we are in a tough economy and this is everywhere, however, we do not think through the strategy of how to continue production with every shirking resources.