AT&T Applications Developer Associate reviews

3.2

21% would recommend to a friend

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John Stankey

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2.0
Nov 10, 2016
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Pros

- Not a lot of pressure to perform at a high level, easy to coast by - You are allowed to work on side projects and participate in hackathons - TDP program puts you with other young employees - Opportunity to work remote for certain circumstances

Cons

- Pay is extremely below market rate. AT&T is not going after top talent. This role is best suited as a proving ground for candidates who weren't qualified for more talented dev companies - Not really a development focused company. You need to request admin rights to download anything, you can't choose your machine, no access to developer licenses. Projects aren't really innovative, AngularJS 1.5 is the hottest thing in TDP - Not really millennial friendly. I hear Dallas is though

5.0
Sep 25, 2016
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Pros

I work in ATO (AT&T Technology Operations) under Technology Development. Our organization really cares about growing its employees skills. For example, as a way to transform employee's skills, they offer Udacity's nanodegrees, Masters of Data Science from Notre Dame, and a Masters of Computer Science from Georgia Tech all for free. Aside from that, our company also reimburses employees up to a certain amount if we want to get a graduate degree such as an MBA. John Donovan is doing an incredible job leading our workforce's skills transformation and making sure we can thrive in this hyper-competitive environment. AT&T values and invests in its employees for the long term. AT&T also hosts great conferences like the Employee Resource Conference each year. It's through conferences like that where all of us regardless of level or experience can learn from our company's smartest minds and hearts. We're better together. That's why even though I'm a Computer Science major from a Top 10 Computer Science program in the nation, a software engineer at AT&T, and a female minority, I choose to work at AT&T, and I foresee myself staying here as long as what I value continues - the growth opportunities, the great people, the company values.

Cons

People assume if I work for AT&T, I sell phones. We do a lot more than cellphones (Connectivity in cars, DirecTV, B2B, B2C, ERGs).

1.0
Sep 23, 2015
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Pros

The only good thing about the TDP program is that I got to make great friends. You're capped at working 40 hours a week so that helps with work/life balance. The 50% discount on AT&T services is great. Great place to work if you want to have a steady salary and don't care about learning much.

Cons

There is nothing "Emerging" about the program. This is probably the worst place for a CS major to learn something. You work on outdated technologies with remote teams. All the collaboration is virtual with team members across the globe. The hiring standards are way too low. The good programmers that you work with are generally contractors from Accenture or some other consulting firm. The way benefits work is laughable. A person making PowerPoint presentations and a person developing good code make the same mediocre salary. The management stresses that benefits are on par with other top tech companies which is not true at all. A new computer science grad could easily be making 20-30% more in the same city. They stress a lot on the use of Agile methodologies although you will most likely never get a chance to work with it. Employees are led to believe that they are the best of the best which is leaving a false sense of pride among them. Nothing is based on merit. Management is very biased towards ass-licking employees. And yeah, the worst of all, appearance has precedence over intellect and merit which is infuriating.

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