Inside AT&T, MCI Culture, From VaultReports.com.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 1999-- AT&T (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : T) may be in the doghouse with America Online (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) over its "you have mail" greeting. However, after interviewing thousands of insiders, VaultReports.com (http://www.VaultReports.com) has learned that AT&T employees aren't necessarily complaining about life inside the telecommunications powerhouse. Nor are employees at rivals MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. Worldcom (NASDAQ: WCOM WCOM MCI/Worldcom (stock symbol) WCOM Windows Component Object Model WCOM Wireless Communication ) and Sprint (NYSE: FON Fon People of southern Benin and adjacent parts of Togo. They speak a dialect of Gbe, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo language family. Numbering about 3 million, the Fon are mainly farmers. ). VaultReports.com, the leading online provider of "insider" company information, spent the past year interviewing employees at these telecommunications giants. While these massive corporations can sometimes be "bureaucratic" and work can be "exhausting," overall employees seem to be excited about working in such a vital and expansive industry. Here are just some of the things that telecom insiders are telling VaultReports.com: -- AT&T (NYSE: T) - "The people are for the most part genuinely friendly and willing to help out with a problem, even if it's not their problem." http://www.vaultreports.com/links/ATT -- MCI Worldcom (NASDAQ: WCOM) - "They expect a lot out of you. It's a very demanding place because that's what the industry dictates... they are young, kinda hip, with a `can do' attitude" http://www.vaultreports.com/links/MCI -- Sprint (NASDAQ: FON) - "One thing that always impresses me is the quality of people that work here." http://www.vaultreports.com/links/Sprint Profiles of these companies, along with other top American corporations, can be found in the VaultReports.com Guide to the Top 50 MBA Employers. It can be ordered by visiting www.vaultreports.com/links/TopMBA or calling 1-888-562-VAULT. It is also available in major bookstores. About VaultReports.com Earlier this year, VaultReports.com was one of only two career web sites honored by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. as "Best of the Best Sites for 1998." Based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , VaultReports.com publishes "insider" guides on over 1,500 companies and 50 industries. Vault also provides a proprietary service called VaultMatch (http://www.vaultreports.com/links/vaultmatch), a free online recruiting tool that matches young, professional job seekers with corporate employers and headhunters. Augmenting VaultMatch is Vault's Employee Message Boards (http://www.vaultreports.com/vstore/messageintro.cfm), a newly-introduced network of message boards where people can gossip about the work life at their companies. VaultReports.com was founded in 1996 by H.S. Hamadeh, Mark Oldman, and Samer Hamadeh, recent graduates of Stanford and Wharton. |
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