Pros
Verizon provides a competitive base salary and what can be a lucrative commission component for the sales teams. They also have a very broad reaching and technically advanced network, which provides a sound platform for offering geographically diverse and technically future-proof solutions to a broad range of businesses. Verizon provides a diversity of companies (Verizon Business, Domestic Telecom, Verizon Wireless) which allow for diverse opportunities across diverse companies, with each one providing unique and possibly beneficial cultural and philosophical environments. The company has good tuition aid and matching funds for charitable contributions. You also can get discounts on Verizon products and services.
Cons
Ever since Verizon acquired MCI and created the Verizon Business business unit, the company has continually and systematically destroyed the company through their poor business practices and unethical sales practices. The MCI senior management team, which took control of VzB, has been totally out of touch regarding the diverse market units which comprise the national base of customers across the Verizon footprint. The company has continually downsized, where literally thousands of years of outstanding and competent employe experience has either been heartlessly let go or, worse, where an opportunity was created for the best people to leave Verizon where many quickly went to key competitors which will hurt the company for years to come.