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What's It Like Working For Worldcom?

Posted by Cliff on from the extending-the-feelers dept.

Tetch asks: "I work for a multinational IT company which seems likely to transfer its "network services" team to (MCI-)Worldcom under the terms of a business arrangement (Worldcom's gonna run our company network for us). I'm contemplating transfering from my current position to that network services team but would quite like to know more about Worldcom's corporate culture before taking the plunge (since it seems I'd become a Worldcom employee in fairly short order). Does anyone have any experience of life at Worldcom they could share?" It's always smart to try get an idea of the climate in a company before you you try and sign up.

"Is it all white shirts, and singing the company song at 07:00, or is it T-shirts, jeans, company masseur and free donuts ? Do they work you into the ground till you burn out and then cast you aside with the trash, or do they look after you, nurture your career, notice your contribution without you having to sing your own praises the whole time. Are Worldcom folk *happy* and enthusiastic, content to be a valued part of a committed team effort, or are they cogs in a faceless machine, living in isolation and fear of visits from beancounters looking for yet more cost-savings to make for the stock-holders' benefit?"

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  1. Re:Let me go out on a limb here... by fm6 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    4. The rest of us will be bored out of our minds.
    On the contrary. There's very little chance I'll ever end up working at Worldcom. But I tuned into this item with great anticipation. Worldcom is one the key internet providers, what with their backbone networks, data exchanges, and ISP operations. Anything they do impacts us all, and insight into their corporate culture is of much interest!
  2. I actually work at wcom... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No one will read this, of course, since I'm posting anonymously but what the hell... no one else that works here appears to be posting.

    What's it like working here? To make a long aswer short, it depends who your manager is. I'm lucky enough to work for people who let me run Linux on my desktop even though it's not "officially supported." (Windows is the official desktop OS).
    Other people, however, have horror stories due to the regulations in their particular group. I'm sure this is the way with most large companies.

    HTH