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First of all, your work week is 4 12 hour days in a row. Days or nights,  from 7 to 7, the manufacturing schedule is 7 days a week, even holidays. Except Christmas break, Which is 2 weeks off including New Years. You use one week of your vacation during this time, and the other week whenever you want to.  As with most manufacturing jobs you may be required to volunteer or told that there is overtime. The rest of the time it's business as usual. Work is busy, hot, it got to a point where 12 hrs flew by like 4 hrs. I rarely had enough time to finish what would happen during the night. You are judged by working on production, getting a specific amount cable footage.  That is something I struggled with during my time there. 
 All in all I had a good time working there. The pay was defiantly worth it. It helped me learn to keep to myself and not worry what other people were doing. The management that I encountered when I was there was very slack. As long as your doing your job and making production or close to it, the supervisor rarely bothered you. Just the way I like it. Of course the best part of the job was the 4 days off. Cause when your working 4 days on 12 hours you really don't have time for anything else. I got to work with some fun and great people. Some became good friends, and I'm still in contact with on facebook. That's all I got!

The pay is great. Benefits are good. Communication is horrible for a communications company. To move around departments or jobs, they work off of a bidding system. They often seem to make the mistake of awarding a job to you only for you to find out someone with a longer history has sweet talked their way into your new position. There are seasoned workers who've been there between 20 to 40 years, and then there are newer people that have only been there a couple of years. Training is a joke. You will be lucky to receive a month of training before they throw you out to the wolves and let you figure out how to run products you've never been trained on. Not enough training causes downtime, and you most likely will get chastised for downtime depending on management. The three 30 minute breaks are a risk rather than an actual break because there isn't anyone to cover for your line while you take one. The weekend shift has it rough when the upper management, technicians, and schedulers are off. No one knows what's going on or how to work the new technology or when the next shipment of supplies will arrive until the next weekday. Although most individuals are nice, it's plain to see there are favorites. Overall, it's a nice place to work but being a Senior Manufacturing Operator isn't worth the extra penny given the overwhelming expectations and responsibilities compared to a regular Manufacturing Operator.

In the last four years, this company has changed business structures, seemingly, every six months.  They fail to allow the dust to settle before changing everything again. I personally had six direct manager changes in four years.
All the leaders that made this company great since its inception, and then those that continued to improve the company through the 2000 bubble, are now gone. The leadership seems to be lost as they languish in the consequential debt of an incompetent diligence when purchasing Arris. Their most recent play has been to bring in consultant after consultant, hire cronies to key postions, and lay off those that have been with the company for decades.  They hire, layoff, and then rehire the positions they'd previously terminated. Whether you lose your job or not is based on your current position or pay rather than your merit. For example, I worked in the most profitable segment and negotiated a cost savings on one product large enough to fund the salaries of my team for years. If you want instability, this is the place for you. Their constant structure changes, crushing debt, elimination of benefits (e.g., bonuses, 401k matching, stock awards) and the constant threat of job loss will keep you wondering when the hammer will fall. 

Anyone rating this place 5 stars falls into one of 2 categories, honeymoon phase of employment or brownnoser and hardly works. The place has an abundance of the latter, and they tend to get the promotions and the worker bees are over loaded. If your starting out your career, it’s a good place to learn. If not, don’t waste your time unless it’s just a stopping pt to better things.  The pay is good, benefits are below average, and bonuses are terrible.   

You can do you own research and see how much debt they carry in relationship to their revenue, and they continue to overpay the c-suite for poor results.  They continue to purchase market share or non related product lines at a premium. 

Those with VP title are way over rated.  C-suite is running this place into the ground and it amazes me the board and the shareholders have not kindly pushed them out the door.  They preach good ethics and  morals, but you have to practice what you preach.

I could write a book, but all I can say is, don’t trust anyone and always be looking over your shoulder.

It is a very clean and rewarding place to work when everything runs smoothly, however, when things go wrong, or lines are down, it can be rough. Unless you’re a helper, you’re going to be running around trying to fix everything, but if you can’t fix it call maintenance!!! There’s no communication between management and employees until the Supervisor is walking close to your line, so if you’re down for an hour they’re  going to want to know why you’re down and they might chastise you for the lack of production. As far as the job and the people it’s a great place to work as well as start a career. There is favoritism, and there is a good ole boys club, but if you get blessed with a good supervisor as 75% of employees do, you’ll be just fine. I learned a lot about the fiber optic cable manufacturing process, as well as many leadership principles while working here. The hardest part of the job for me was staying awake and engaged as the shifts are 12 hours, 4 days on 4 days off (The best schedule I’ve ever worked). You will not regret working here. 

CommScope is a great place to start a career. Not only is the compensation great for a recent college graduate, but there are always opportunities to advance, and since the company is currently made up mainly of people nearing retirement, there is a great need for young people. The company also has a reputation of being a place where employees stay for a long time and has little turnover, which is positive and encouraging. The only downside is that not all CommScope locations house every department. For example, if you are in marketing, you would not have any options for employment at the headquarters in Hickory because the marketing team is located in Shakopee, MN. In many cases, you might work with people who live and work at offices in different states and time zones, so communication can be challenging. However, if you are in accounting, finance, HR, or IT, you won't have to worry about it. Overall I would recommend this company.

Depending on what division you are in many areas are declining in growth therefore heavy downsizing and restructuring leaving a sense of insecurity for employees.  Company is slow to upgrade manufacturing system tools for supply chain and planners.

Very autonomous management direction has been recent trend.
Too lean in some cost areas and too heavy in other areas.

Inclined to implement new plans of motion without adequately setting up, training, or supply the adequate tools for the changes.  Tend to make changes before the last change was followed through creating chaos and understaffing in some areas.

Great place to gain experience and knowledge within the telecommunications manufacturing industry as Commscope is one of the worlds leaders in that market.

I was hired to develop a manufacturing execution system (MES) application, based on an existing MS Access application in operation at 5 locations in Mexico.  The application was written and documented in Spanish.  I was given one employee to assist with rewriting the MES system, but this employee was busy beyond full time just supporting the existing Mexico MES locations.  Management significantly underestimated the software application requirements and the labor and resources required to make the application reality and distribute it to all sites worldwide.  The management ideology was non-technical, mid 1960s manufacturing with little automation and no desire to improve or implement new technology.  I'm glad I was only there 10 months. 

A typical work day at CommScope can be chaotic. I learned how to troubleshoot and correct problems in computers as well as take one apart and put it back together.  I learned how to use some great tools to fix software problems. Upper Management was profit focused and not employee focused. There could have been better training material. I enjoyed working with my Co-Workers met some very talented people I learned a lot from them.  The hardest part of the job was working with outdated equipment and limited staff. The merit system for pay increase was abused to prevent pay raises. It was also used to justify letting someone go that they didn't want to pay a high salary to. The job was stressful when it didn't have to be. The most enjoyable part of my job was being able to solve a problem they were having.  I would have stayed if they weren't trying to cheat me out of pay.

Started with American Tower as an electrical foreman working thru out Florida.  Company sold to Andrew Systems and I was promoted to Construction Manager running crews thru  out the South East . Company sold again to Commscope as I maintained my position as Construction Manager.  Commscope decided to not maintain the construction end of the business and were up for sale again to a smaller co.
As Construction Manager I checked daily with management on work schedule and assigned crews.  My responsibility was to ensure the crews were equipped and had all materials needed for their assignment.  Also responsibility to see that the Client and all related persons were aware of the work and schedule.  
The  hardest part of the job was coordinating the equipment and materials with the vendors and clients.
The most enjoyable part of the job was removing the permits from the site well done.

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