business development specialist

service technician ii

senior site supervisor

tower technician

intern

SBA Communications

•Communicates effectively with Site Administration, Legal and M&A regarding any issue relating to the land and site owners.                                                                                
•Initiates and uploads the monthly ground rent and revenue gathers from PM to Great Plains.             
•Reviews and reconciles batches in Great Plains for accuracy.                                                                    
•Initiates and processes weekly back-bill gathers from PM to Great Plains. Reviews and reconciles back-bills before printing.                                                                                                  
•Processes mid-month gathers and reoccurring batches for owned revenue sharing.                                                                                  
•Process property tax, gathers and check requests as needed.                                                                      
•Code and prepare any miscellaneous check requests submitted as needed.                                       
•1099 tax requirements for new vendor set up.                                                                                   
•Accurately complete/ perform peer review of data entries.                                                                    
•Prepare reconciliations and statistical reports as required. 
•Handled high volume invoices payment request including expense report.
•Train and review invoice errors with team members. 
•Assist team members with questions and issue resolution. 
•Be proficient on all aspects of A/P processing within the team including utilities, rent, tax, revenue sharing, site   operating/capital expenditures and check processing. 
•Process void transactions in Great Plains. 
•Ensure department's procedures, policies and internal controls to ensure compliance with all SBA policies. 
•Back up supervisor in his/her absence. 
•Supporting documentation for completeness, accuracy, reasonableness, authorization, and account coding. 
•Scanning supporting documentation. 
•Maintain vendor master file up to date

What is the best part of working at the company?
Company understanding of your priorities for sites and being able to concentrate on those, prior to lesser directives. It’s nice to work for a company that agrees with what you are seeing in field and accommodating what needs done from a construction standpoint.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Setting records every quarter and quotas changing lowering bonuses every quarter?
What’s up with that?
If we are building more that ever, why does the bar have to raise….
Anyhow I wonder if those quotas remained after I left and they brought in two people to carry my load.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Safety and quality comes first.
If both good go balls to the wall but if something changes, hit brake and correct. 
Mom said “The hurrier I go the behinder I get” and going fast doesn’t always get the job done correctly. Sometime you need to step back and devise a new plan of attack. 
SBA seemed to adapt and overcome when issue arose which set them apart from most companies I’ve worked for.
At least they did when I was there.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Usually you knew you priorities a week before the push but in the wireless industry we all know that we need to “adapt and overcome” 
because nothing is constant.

The attempt at a modern workplace culture did not resonate with the reality of it. The views on the modern flexible, work/life balance were often stated but not truly believed in by leadership. Despite the growing need for a company’s support for balancing personal/professional lives, it felt like walking on eggshells for those wanting to use their remote time or needing to flex their schedule. Besides that, the HR team fostered a phony work environment, especially amongst older employees’ “clique-ish” behavior. Only those that were “in” were taken care of in regard to compensation, etc. The leadership team met change with resistance and was stuck in their ways, which was frustrating for the younger generation. Communication was terrible and decisions were often made without the team’s input or with any regard to how this will impact them. “Leaders” get promoted without knowledge or experience of the role and without knowing how to speak to team members and be actual leaders – if they’re “in”, they are protected. Lastly, if you resign, they will post your backfill significantly more than what you were making, when you were told that you were at the max and there was nothing they could do.

Many hard-working employees were burned out, disengaged and unhappy. Free lunches, ping pong tables, and themed celebrations are not the way of showing your employees you truly care and appreciate them, but only a mask to pretend.

- Even though we proved that we could work remotely during the pandemic, upper management told everyone they had to go back in-office. They had a 5 day/year remote policy and after we asked a lot for more days, they allowed 52 days/year, which is good but not great. According to the CEO himself, he was "dragged kicking and screaming to a remote world" and often jokes that whoever is working from home, does not care about the job as much as the people going to the office. This old-school mindset is bad for the company and the employees, since there is a lot of turnover to other companies offering more remote days and better pay.  
- There is a LOT of middle management and supervisors, which is not really necessary since the people there need more coworkers to help to complete the tasks instead of more bosses to say "this needs to be done". Micromanagement is ROUGH.
- PTO is good (19 days), but it includes sick days so beware of that. 
- There are amazing and smart people working there, but at the same time there are people working 10+ years that do not know how to use a computer or write a decent email.
- Good place to retire.

This is a modern, well-designed sweatshop, with daily work quotas shoved down your throat and used to threaten and control workers.  Overtime is offered but is expected (you need to work overtime in order to make any money!) If you don't work the overtime or they feel it's not enough, you are held in contempt. They like to hold themselves out as "family" but do not act like anyone's family and actually have a revolving door of workers coming in to fill positions which have been vacated by employees quitting or getting fired. Terrible reputation with employment agencies (revolving door and lots of bad feedback). Terrible training, very inadequate but then are sticklers for doing it "their way."  A lot of unhappy employees who literally hate their jobs but stay because of stock options. Upper management are full of themselves. Workers get fired every other day at this company. It's a joke. Raises are basically non-existent and an insult to any hard working person. It takes four years to make one more dollar an hour!  Horrible work atmosphere. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.  Only enjoyment is the paycheck doesn't bounce.

SBA has been a great company to work for.  A typical day in my department is fast paced and I have some opportunity to make my own decisions to move things along efficiently which I enjoy.  Management has seem to drop the ball on some issues when it comes to moral and unfortunately it is bringing  somewhat of a toxic work environment.   The difficulties being faced are lack of solid procedures within the department allowing a smoother flow of work which would help with quarterly goals. The culture is more about production to meet those goals as quickly as possible while not taking into consideration there is a need for more staff. 
I enjoy the relationships I have made within the organization, especially with some of my peers who I have worked with for so long.  To come to work and see the people who have started from the beginning like myself, truly feels like family at times and I appreciate that.

I worked at SBA Communications and it was a bad experience.  I  worked my tail off because that's what I learned to do at my old jobs before SBA.  Half of the people at SBA would be shopping on the internet, talking in their cubicals, reading books, playing games on their iPads, talking on their cellphones, dancing and singing in the isles while the other half which included me, worked. Some even left a few times a day to go for long walks while some others found it hard to get a break for lunch. 
The building is nice, I especially liked the cafe and gym, and I made some friends but the office was too loud and wild to concentrate and the atmosphere was not at all professional so that bothered me. It was getting too frustrating and if you complain to Human Resources like they tell you to do, you get fired, so forget that!  I left when I had enough! I got another job where EVERYONE works. No noise, no frustration, no more.

The company found out that negative reviews of the company had been posted online.  Instead of using that feedback to become a "Best Place to Work", the President of HR singled out accounting, yelled at them for having their own opinions, and told everyone that if they didn't love it, they could leave it.  This place is run like a corporation from the 80s and most of the executives have an Alexis Carrington attitude towards business.  I was sick in the hospital and SBA called me so many times, I was assigned a social worker to document the harassment.  Gossip rules the roost here, so if you're into back stabbing and lying, you'll move up the ladder of success in no time.  The manager of Data Management steals your ideas and work as his own.  The CEO drives a 12 cylinder BMW while the employees who are not executives have to scramble just for gas money.  Greedy corrupt pigs run this place and SBA would be thrilled to gut you and send you up a river if it means adding to their bottom line.

Lots of redundant meetings, the management brings in their friends versus promoting from within. Stressful work environments, management is not willing to share their knowledge with their team and is combative. Coworkers that throw you under the bus in order to keep their job. You are not looked at or respected for your skill, management makes up personal issues to fire team members that are skilled to do the job. Instead they will bring in their friends and retain them although they do not have the skill for the position. The military is having serious problems recruited

I like it alot and the people in Site Leasing were inclusive and helpful. I love the little time I worked there and found it to be informative unfortunately I was hired through an agency the pay was little and no benefits of course came alot with that. Additionally you didnt get paid for holiday so thats a shortened check when holiday rolled around.

All in all if I got a better paying opportunity I would rejoin for sure.

Oh yeah it's super quite there you can hear the air in the vents some time I would walk to see if others were around which they were but during the days it feels like  there is no existence of life. It was the first place I worked that people just kept to themselves except of u needed a question answer no one spoke to you lol... it didnt bother to me but definately would others ha ha

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