Vodafone reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(16,792 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 16,792 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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1.0
Sep 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance can be good if hitting your target.

Cons

Lack of complete processes for everything sales related in the business. Targets are unrealistic with no analysis or data driving them other than we want to hit this number by this date. A set of products that don't meet their customers requirements. Management are just a mouth piece for the business and have no real power or support for their teams. Poorest SLT in years. Promotions are based off of meeting a diversity target or hiring in mates and not performance. Management with no real understanding of their customers, products or even the target structure they've given their sales teams. Don't expect to hit their targets because even if you do the business will apply some vague rule they've included in their handbook to ensure you don't recognise the sale. They're essentially a marketing company at this point reselling other companies products and infrastructure with their margin. They'll work tirelessly to ensure staff don't get a pay increase but happily pay more to hire in none preforming staff from outside the industry from external whom never last more than 1 year unless they get in at management level. If applying for a sales job be sure to ask what % of the sales team are currently hitting their target. If you don't achieve in the first 6 months you won't make probation. Yearly pay increase is pathetic, usually 1 to 5% with very very few getting the 5% and again it's not based off of performance. It appears the company is on a path for selling parts of the business if not in its entirety.

3.0
Mar 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generally good work/life balance, flexible hybrid system

Cons

My review of the cons refer to the Discover Graduate Program in Greece. Unfortunately, I regret choosing Vodafone as my first employer after graduation. The program offers rotation, but HR will not inform you of the all (or even some) of the avaliable placements. They will choose the one they need to fill the most regardless of the interests you have stated in initial interview. When you want to switch teams, the approach is similar. I even had a senior hr employee tell me that if I don't take the offered rotation, we may have reached a dead end in my employment. HR does not really care about you being content at your placement, and if your team members also don't care, you are left to deal with HR on your own. However it was a good lesson for me learn to advocate for myself. The pay stays the same for two years straight (1300 gross), and then they offer you a maximum salary of 1600 gross. IMO if you come from an engineering background this salary is a bit of a joke considering you have already been there for two years. The salary is also non negotiable because "it would be unfair for the other graduate trainees" (actual words spoken by HR). So instead of rewarding you for staying loyal for two years, they are essentially punishing you. If you come from an engineering background you can get more money and learn more things in any other company. It may be a good place to work however if they hire as a mid or senior engineer, cause then you have more negotiation power over your salary.

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