Vodafone reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(16,788 total reviews)
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Margherita della Valle

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Vodafone has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 16,788 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vodafone employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecomunicaciones industry (3.6 stars).

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17K reviews
2.0
Mar 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You could get away with murder because management didn't have a clue what they were doing. If you like a 4 day working week this is the place for you. Very little was ever achieved on a Friday. Good redundancy/compromise agreements - a lot of people only stay there because they are hoping to be made redundant.

Cons

Nobody picks up their phone or rarely reply to voicemails. Process were convoluted. A steady stream of redundancies on an annual/bi-annual basis (not a bad thing if you've been there a few years). Bullies within management. I have never worked for a company were the majority of people weren't willing to take ownership. Meetings about meetings with little to no outcome from either. Your attendees would be late because they were in the queue at one of the coffee shops. A market follower rather than a market leader and slow at doing that. Better packages paid by their competitors and forget a decent pay rise if you're promoted. You will soon be paid significantly less than your peers who have joined from outside Vodafone. Over priced canteen and the quality of the food is poor. The work/life balance is appalling. You are expected to be contactable even whilst on leave.

1.0
Mar 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Hard to establish any tbh, pay is okay I guess.

Cons

- Threatening staff with new, arbitrary, "expectation" of office days, at the same time as announcing thousands of redundancies. - Lack of respect and trust in managers and staff. Blank punishments due to a minority of staff. - Total contridiction and walking back of shifting to new ways of working. During covid Vodafone was all about being a family and working together through the difficult time "guys this is the future way of working in Vodafone - arrange your lives to suit" two years later " either come to the office "2-3" days a week or be fired". - Zero planning of this rollout, lack of deck space, car parking and meeting rooms. "this is all to aid collaboration" but I cannot get a meeting room, sit in different offices and or come to the office on different days. - Whoever made this decision is a corporate dinosaur that did not like to see rented office space semi full or someone is mates with the landlord/s and looking to sort them out with requiring more floor space. - Hiding behind policy and emails. During this whole situation no one has taken questions on this subject, as to even explain the whys behind this. The only answer so far is to aid collaboration and to make sure there are people in the office for the graduates to work with...........

2.0
Sep 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Hybrid work, working with new technologies and collaboration with people in different countries than yours.

Cons

Greek IT CIO + IT management do whatever they want - HR supports them. They don't act like being in a multinational company. They act like it's their own small shop. They promote their own people. They are clueless of IT technology and only know how to continuously speak without saying anything. They only like to show that things are going great. Noone can say differently because noone actually supervises them. The situation is worse than working in the Greek public sector.

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