Cable & Wireless Communications Reviews

Tyrannical senior management that fosters a culture of blame and fear. The CTIO and his senior leaders have no human empathy and are the worst people I have ever worked for. There is no room for any opinions except theirs and God help you if you question them. The sales teams and finance teams are well led but stay away from any engineering, project management or operations job if you value your sanity.

wow! where can i start! When I got the offer letter I couldn't believe it. I got ALL i asked for! sign on bonus, relocation, a nice bump over my previous salary. I got it all. One day after I started I was having serious doubts about accepting the job. In my first day at the job I took part in a meeting in which top management was present. The language that came out of the mouth of these people! it wasn't just vulgar but so much ill-willed nastiness. That was an alarming red flag. A few days latter I went to the London headquarters and then saw the grim reality that was to come. Employees were treated so poorly, and the norm was that employees simply had to put up with it all because it was NORMAL. The hours were crazy and so were the expectations, but above all was this very demeaning way of interacting with each other which I could not understand. So this was the EXISTING CULTURE before the transition to Miami and by the end of my second month I was already in panic mode about the fact that I had committed to work in such place and that I needed to stay there for at least a year because the sign on bonus and relo money forced me, by contract. Then the transition happened, all the top British personnel that was left in the company moved over to Miami as expatriates and hired all the remaining people either locally or from other parts of the US. I was told that of the totality of employees in London, a large number were offered to come to Miami and outside of the key VP's and so on, 100% REFUSED! THANKS BUT NO THANKS. So here how it was for the remainder of the rime that I was with CWC: You are EXPECTED to work 100+ hours weeks for the vast majority of the time because this company does not have NOR WANT TO INVEST IN processes, systems, or the necessary level of man power to run the business in an effective way. You are also EXPECTED to work weekends 90% of the time, specially if you work in critical areas like, finance, accounting, tax, investor relations, etc. which are always burdened with excessive demands from never ending acquisitions, de-mergers, re-orgs, etc, etc, etc..... You are expected to ENDURE VERBAL ABUSE as part of the NORMAL culture; there is a particularly sad and frustrating way in which the English management level types treat the local people, simply DEMEANING AND INSULTING. kind of reminds you of the how the Spanish conquistadors treated the native peoples when they first reached the Americas. And they are quite vocal about it; many times I heard the term "damn yanks" from expats. The funny part is that just like people come into the company, they go!!! there are no introductions, nobody introduces the new hires at any levels. And then, one day they just don't show up any more because they were fired (in the majority of the cases), or they just left! just like that, all the time. This was the case of someone very relevant in the HR group! the person simply never came back from vacations! quit by email... and this is the norm; people fired ALL THE TIME, people quit ALL THE TIME. So this is how it is. its a nasty, abusive and unstable place to work, driven by a truly terrible corporate culture and environment of tyrannical abuse from the top management. I hope this helps you in making your decision if you are thinking of joining this "ORGANISATION"