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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. Working for WorldCom - Don't Do It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    WorldCom can't even run their own internal IT network - let alone someone else's. The best advice I can give you is to ask for numbers. What I mean by that is - ask them what their user to network staff ratio is. Ask them how many network staff members they have for a given geographic area. Ask for NAMES if you can, because they will lie to you. The company's IT department is GROSSLY understaffed. Desktop support does not exist at WorldCom.

    I worked with the company for 2+ years in IT and had mid-level IT managers from Tulsa tell me things like "Well, I know this (project) is the wrong thing to do, but it's what my boss wants, so we have to do it."

    I would be very surprised if you heard from more than a few people who liked working for the company or who were satisfied customers. Go here: http://www.planetfeedback.com/Ratings/0,2502,,00.h tml

    and look at who three of the worst ten companies are. Don't do it. It's a miserable place to work.