Job Title: Financial Analyst
Location: Overland Park, KS
Submitted on: 21-Apr-04
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Corporate Culture/Hours:
The culture at Sprint is not as cut throat as a place like GE, but it
does get tough at times. The current group I work in deals with most of
the financial analysis for network. This causes us to be the focal point
for a lot of information and the work hours can get a bit high at times.
Typically, you would put in 45-50 hours a week. If a person wants to
move on the "fast track", work hours would obviously increase. However,
the company is accommodating in terms of vacations, taking time-off and
flexible work hours. In my time here, so far I have not had an issue
with the work culture.
On the flip side, you might encounter groups where the "laid back"
culture is on the extreme side and working with them can be frustrating.
Also, the HR policy is not rigorously performance driven. What this
means is that there is no 'forced bell curve' and at times this can
cause a lot of people to be bundled along with high performers, when the
reality could be quite different. However, to be fair, high performers
definitely get recognized. I would personally like the review process to
be more rigorous in terms of differentiating the excellent performers
and the others. A lot of room for improvement there.
Dress Code:
Formals and Semi-formals. NO jeans allowed at any time on campus.
Diversity:
Extremely Diverse. The group I work in has almost 40-50% internationals.
Not sure if this trends is similar across the entire company, but there
are lot of internationals and the company is very careful in terms of
respecting the needs of these different nationalities.
Opportunities for advancement:
For finance, the best opportunity is the Financial Management
Development Program (FMDP), which is quite tough to get in. But once an
employee is in, they have a different pay scale, ,get rotated through
different groups/organizations and emerge after three years in the
program typically as managers/Directors. Also, groups make a big
difference. Like in any big company, there are groups that are not the
best to work in and the work could get pretty boring. So, caution needs
to be used before joining certain divisions within the company.
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