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Great Job Culture and Work/Life Balance
Great Job Culture
Good Work/Life Balance.
Fair Compensation and nice Benefits
Appropriate Job Security and Advancement
Visionary Management
Transforming for the better.
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A true professional culture
Level 3 Communications was acquired by Century Link. The legacy Level 3 folks seem to have a lasting fraternity in which we all still stay in touch. I would not be where I am in my career without my time at Level 3. I still miss it to this day!
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Culture has changed since merger with Level 3.
Culture and focus of the company has changed since merger with Level 3. Alot more contention now vs. work enviornment pre-merger. Still a lot of good people doing good work but culture is not as positive as it used to be.
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Work remotely
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Not enough resources to get the work done. Layoffs are impacting groups handling the work loads.
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Disorganized disorder at best, the Sr leadership provided a vision, and tried to provide the flexibility for organizations to work without micromanaging the groups. This is only effective if they stepped in when things were not going well or in the direction the company was headed. Also, there is very little emphasis on solving internal problems and issues. No overall strategy developed for the Government Team, which effects ptoductivity.
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Comfortable and congenial place to work
CenturyLink was a very comfortable and very congenial place to work. All of the people that I worked with were very educated and very polite. I would have no problem working with them again.
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Great place to work
Flex time, as long as there was coverage between 6:00am to 6:00pm. Great benefits, PTO was awesome!
On a side note, the management treated me very good. I was used to being a contractor. So when I took this position I was in the inner circle, I was a direct hire and not a contractor. I was helping to make contract decisions and upcoming jobs. I got to work with state of the art equipment in their lab. I went to numerous classes provided by CenturyLink, including DC power,Ciena, and Infinera to name a few.
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Lot of versatility in job you don't see elsewhere
Good, you get a much broader range of skills to build upon, some other carriers you are much more limited in scope This is also the hardest part of job, there is a lot to learn, but they will be valuable skills to have.

Bad, low end of compensation scale compared to other carriers


The culture is a bit more PC than I prefer, but overall the people are very friendly.
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3.0
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Not much to say
I appreciate my manager giving me the opportunity to get industry experience when I had been out of the market for a while. I think the company would do better and making salaries more competitive. I believe that the fall below what is considered the average.
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Great place to work
As always, management could be improved but overall, working here is great. They really make sure all employees have time off and will approve almost any date you give them. I respect the work environment here and helps keep you relaxed while performing at the top of your game. Moving up can be an issue because people don't want to leave but the company always has jobs open in other fields/locations.
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Productive but stress full environment to work in.
Fast paced and stress full overall
Always learning and working on new types of issue's in the network and with outside Companies and Customer networks.
Management was up and down during my time with the company, sometimes the leadership was great but in the end they were not very forth coming in decisions and work in general.
The hardest part of the job was getting the work done when we were not provided proper staffing. The staffing issue was presented tio upper management and agreed we were short. Never hired to staffing level to support the work.
The Engineer's and some of the management were exceptional in their work and was a great experience to work with
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Disfunctional
Company is undergoing many changes, culture is non existent, management is absent. Many layoffs and people looking for jobs at other companies within the industry.
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Government Sales
Effectively managed sales funnel to analyze pipeline activity and sales resources, including sales engineers, channel resources, solution architects and internal sales team, to help implement successful strategic account management
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Wonderful VP
A company in transition with the acquisition and then take over by Level 3
With the take over the incumbent management team left and Level 3 brought in their own team so whatever was CenturyLink is no longer.
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Not so good after merge
Not good after merge. Not good at all. System issues. System tools were horrible. There was much confusion with engineering teams and tools we needed to use to figure out both networks
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Good base if you are in sales, good benefits, but high churn
Face it, Level 3 runs the company, not CenturyLink. Sales is cut throat, good boys (Level 3) club. Benefits are good and if you are a sales account director, base salary is good. Systems & process are horrible, too many of them and no training on them. No one is willing to help probably because they don't know. Orders don't install. Many customer service and disconnect issues. As a sales person, if a customer disconnects a services, it comes off your revenue number even if you never sold or got paid on the deal. Hard to quote anything. People in all departments are over worked. All the good people (legacy CenturyLink) left the company or got "pushed out".
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Excellent for Work Life Balance
I worked in the Consulting field and really enjoyed the employees I worked with. The management was good at giving praise when it was due. I just wish I wasn't laid off.
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Life at Centurylink
With CentruyLink and Level 3 merging there is still a lot of confusion between systems, products and internal support. These problems can cause issues with customer sat.
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Ok career move
A typical workday included milling away at repetitive busy work. Much more work could have been done, but the politics and management do not allow for a high functioning environment. You have a lot of lifers here that are set in the past and do not want to do anything more than the bare minimum. It's a very pass the buck environment. I also saw a lot buddy/buddy career advancement instead of actually promoting the best candidates for management positions.
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ok
savvis was ok to work for they are like any other copany they look for numbers so if thy think they loo better wit out you then you are gone keep your resimue up to date
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vacation
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vacation
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CenturyLink
Great company and trying to do the right things. Combined Level 3 network will keep CTL competitive for the future. Great network and will improve provisioning once integration is complete.
Company is trying to lead in Cloud based services but the big 3 still dominate. CTL has an excellent portfolio of Network, Data Center and Managed Services. Govt group has been limited by Govt RFP delays, low price Govt evaluations, transition cost barriers and Govt Continuing Resolution on Federal Budget.
CTL L-3 has a bright future and is a great place to work for the person who wants a career in network based IT Services and Cloud.
Pros
Network Services Coverage, Sales Engineering Skills and Operations
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AT&T Verizon 5G will pose a threat to access cost
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