No Strategy, No Stability, and No Ability to Do Quality Work - Director TELUS Employee Review

1.0
Nov 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote work friendly Benefits are decent

Cons

TELUS Health is one of the most chaotic and directionless environments I’ve worked in. There is no real strategy—just sudden mandates from senior leadership that drop out of nowhere with fixed, unquestionable deadlines. These arbitrary fire drills wipe out months of meaningful roadmap work and force teams to abandon anything that would actually help customers. Quality is treated as an inconvenience. Teams are pressured to push out half-baked work just to satisfy whatever last-minute objective leadership has decided is now the “top priority.” It’s demoralizing to watch talented people reduced to producing output they cannot stand behind. Sales operates like a completely separate company, regularly making unrealistic promises to close deals, leaving product and engineering scrambling to deliver the impossible. The internal alignment is so poor it’s hard to believe anyone at the top understands what the product actually needs. The company’s real mission appears to be growth at any cost, and those costs are enormous: a deteriorating product, frustrated customers, and a work culture defined by fear, urgency, and burnout. Layoffs happen so frequently that entire areas of institutional knowledge have been wiped out, leaving the remaining teams trying to build and maintain complex systems with almost no historical context. Meanwhile, compensation sits noticeably below market, making it even harder to retain anyone capable of fixing the mess. If you value your career, your craft, or your sanity, look elsewhere. This environment will drain your motivation faster than you think.

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5.0
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Pros

Flexibility of hours and freedom of location.

Cons

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2.0
May 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home and create your own schedule. Paid training. There is an option for therapy through the company.

Cons

They are hiring, but there aren't enough tasks to make the minimum of 10 hours a week. There are no raises and no promotions. They take a long time to respond to emails, if they respond at all. The only benefit is a 401 (k). $14 is the pay rate, and one can only work 20 hours a week, if there are enough tasks. The past couple of exams for training set one up to fail them. I have been doing this job long enough to know this. They constantly threaten your job, which really affects morale and confidence. There used to be bonuses, but they haven't done them in a long time. There were times we were given permission to work up to 35 hours for the week, but again, it has been a long time. Last one, they didn't have enough tasks to allow for workers to get to 25+. They also offered stock options, but they ended that as well. They made a major mistake on my end and threatened me unless I complied. Eventually got an email that they were wrong, but they didn't apologize. I saw they were hiring freelancers with a maximum of 25 hours a week. I wrote to management and was told the rest of us were only staying at 20. I am currently seeking other employment. There are other companies that do the same work with higher pay and actual benefits. This was once a good job, but once Telus took over, it has been downhill. I would not recommend this company anymore. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a sinking ship.

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