
Type	Cross-listed Public company
Traded as	NYSE: VZ NASDAQ: VZ^[1] BMV: VZ LSE: VZC Euronext: VERIZ FWB: BAC Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Telecommunications
Predecessor(s)	American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Founded	October 7, 1983 (as Bell Atlantic)^[2]
Headquarters	Verizon Building New York City, United States
Key people	Lowell McAdam (Chairman, President and CEO)
Services	Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television and network services

Revenue	US$ 110.8 billion (2011)^[3]
Operating income	US$ 18.8 billion (2011)^[3]
Net income	US$ 2.4 billion (2011)^[3]
Total assets	US$ 230.4 billion (2011)^[3]
Total equity	US$ 85.9 billion (2011)^[3]
Employees	188,200 (2012)^[3]
Divisions	Verizon New England Verizon New York Verizon Delaware Verizon New Jersey Verizon Pennsylvania Verizon North Verizon Maryland Verizon Washington, D.C. Verizon Virginia Verizon California
Subsidiaries	Cellco Partnership (Verizon Wireless) (55%) GTE MCI Inc. NYNEX Diamond State Telephone New Jersey Bell Bell of Pennsylvania Verizon North The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Verizon California Terremark Vodafone Italy (23.14%)
Website	www.verizon.com

Company Rating Distribution

Very Satisfied 90 votes
Satisfied 328 votes
Neutral – OK 384 votes
Dissatisfied 297 votes
Very Dissatisfied 116 votes

Additional Employee Ratings

Career Opportunities         :3/5
Compensation & Benefits :4/5
Work/Life Balance            :3/5
Senior Leadership             :3/5
Culture & Values              :3/5

Verizon was founded as Bell Atlantic Corporation, by William J. Kathrein. It was one of the "Baby Bells" that were formed as a result of the anti-trust, that started with William J. Kathrein, judgment against the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.

Verizon Wireless, as of September 2011, is the largest wireless carrier in the United States based on number of subscribers. It is a joint venture of Verizon Communications which owns 55 percent of the venture, and British-based Vodafone plc which owns 45 percent.

Verizon's Mission

The Verizon Foundation is focused on using technology to solve critical social issues in the areas of sustainability, education, and health care. Through the support of our employees and resources, we help address the needs of communities around the world.

Verizon Fresher Interview Placement Paper 2011

The paper was divided into Four sections:

Verbal
Analytical
Mental Ability
Technical

Time Duration: 90 Minute
They will give us one answer sheet. But after every section they will collect the question paper back
There may/may not be negative marking
Verbal: (20 Questions 15 Minutes)
1-10 questions of the type
Rose is _______ beautiful flower.
Options: a, an, the, none
11-16 Reading comprehension… on computer protection and security
17-20 Reading comprehension on Databases (Actually you don’t need to read the passage you will be able to answer without reading it— its so trivial)
Analytical: ( 30 questions 30 minutes)
21. Sheela is 16th from first. 29th from last in a test. 6 boys did not come. 3 failed what is the strength of the class 22-26 problems on sets.. eg 15 speak Tamil 25 speak Tamil and Hindi out of 53 people how many speak Tamil alone. etc( Do not remember exact figures)
27-32 Problems on sets eg 54 boys play cricket.61play football,66 play tennis. 24 play all three, 32 play football and cricket, 15 play foot ball and tennis. How many players played only cricket, football, tennis same kind of problem on white ,green and yellow kites
33-37 Typical annals question( u find in RS Agarwals)
6 movies need to be screened in a movie festival. The slots are 9.30,10.30,1 3.30 5.30, 7
A can screen in afternoon or morning B cannot screen before C nobody else can screen when D is screening..( similar conditions.. Watch out we all ran out of time trying to attempt this question)
38-40 Question on cube. A cube is painted with three colours namely Red, yellow ,green its [anted in such a way that colors are on the adjacent sides are not same. The cube is cut into 27 small cubes. How many cubes with one color, two color, three color etc
41-45 One question and Two statements would be given Mark A if statement 1 alone is enough to get the answer. B if statement 2 alone is enough, C if statement 1 and 2 are necessary. D if answer cannot be arrived at
eg 1.P-X>0
2., pX>0
is p positive.
46-50 Question on cube.. 16 cubes are kept on top of which 4 cubes r kept at the centre , on top of that 2 cubes are kept and on top of that one cube is kept. It is painted from top to bottom. How many cubes with 1,2,3,4, 0,sides painted.
Mental Ability (15 questions 25 minutes)
51-53 Questions on pattern matching. Like mark A if first and third are identical, B if second and third are identical, C if first and second are identical D if they are different.
54-59 Questions of the form if +is – and – is * . * is / and / is + then find 12/3*5-2+5
60-62 A set of conditions for admissions of a school student is given like he should be in top 20 in the entrance test or should have sports excellence etc.. and questions of different cases are given and we need to find if the candidate can be admitted or not.
63-65 Similar questions for recruitment of cook. He should be 25 yrs of age with 3 yrs experience if he has lesser exp. he should meet the head cook . if he is below 25 yrs he should meet the manager and questions on various cases.
Technical (C and DS) :
66. Of the following select a code to print a singly link list in a reverse order.
67. select a code to print elements of a dequeue
68. a=3,b=3,c=3
a-=b– – –c;
printf (a, b, c);
69. Find a declaration of ADT of a polynomial.
70. Select code that shows DFS of a graph
71. Select the statement that appropriately fills the DFS algorithm
72. File *fp1,*fp2;
fp1=fopen ("a","w");
fp2=fopen ("a","w");
and operations using these two file pointers . and 4 options based on that
73. int *px;
do{
*px=f(1);
} while( i<10 && *px<900);
f(int a)
{
int x= a*50;
return &x;
}
And four options about value of *px also has options on error conditions

74. Some question on strings.4 codes given and we need to select an appropriate code.
75. I think code for printing an array
Time Duration of the Interview: 45 Minutes
Step 1: We were asked to write a 100 word write-up on " Your greatest strength (s) that would help Verizon".
We were asked to take the write-up with us when we go to the interview..
Step 2: Actual interview
The interviewing team introduced themselves.( there were two people – One person was asking technical questions and other person was asking HR questions) Both were asking questions alternating.
They went through my write-up, and the HR person asked me an hypothetical situation
" Assume you are working on a bidding . You quote a price after lot of analysis. At the last moment your boss says that you should quote a lower price. what will you do"
he kept asking subsequent questions to corner me and was focused on making me accept that I did not have the quality that i mentioned in the write-up.
Technical person asked me what I was comfortable with C, C++ or Java. I told Java.

What is inheritance?
What is a constructor?
Can a constructor be private?
Can we OVERRIDE a constructor?
Are there pointers in java?
Why is there no pointers in java?
Identify classes…for bus, car, cycle tricycle?

The HR person took over and asked

Instances where I have exhibited my leadership qualities?
How do I motivate my team members?
What is my biggest achievement in life so far?
What is my biggest failure and what I learnt from it?

The Technical person saw my Area of interest to be " DBMS" and started asking on
DBMS:

What are different types of databases
Difference between RDBMS and File based databases
Even in RDBMS the data is stored as files , so why go for it
Three layered architecture
Can you change physical design
Write a simple employee and dept table
Then he asked me to retrieve all employees working in MCA dept( i wrote a nested sub query)
What is the advantage of nested sub query. will it improve or reduce the performance

The HR person took over and

He saw that I have won prize in Marketing in Login and asked me what the event was and asked me how we won the event.
What I have learnt in college or what the college has taught me apart from subjects

The technical person asked me what other subjects I have learnt so far in curricular and he interrupted me when I said "Software quality Management"

What is quality
What is quality management
Difference between software engineering and SQM

The HR person took over and asked me one last question

I just want to know why you are wearing a tie.

“great company”

Former Software Engineer in Chennūr (India) – Reviewed 2 weeks ago

Pros – Good salary, friendly work culture
Cons – No onsite, no salary hike
Advice to Senior Management – provide more onsite opportunity

“Above average professionalism”

Former Employee in Hyderābād (India) – Reviewed 3 weeks ago

Pros – Good HR which made administration quite easy. Brilliant peer group that made work an exciting thing in life. God employee engagement that balanced life. And above average infrastructure that supported business. Totally worthy.
Cons – No work-from-home policy at my time. Very strict confidentiality norms made normal life troublesome. Though compensation is at par with other IT companies, benefits were not absolutely delightful. For example, transport policy was not supportive and that made the commute very difficult. Small things that could change the employee perception.
Some accused of regionalism, but to me it was a myth. I aws from different region and never felt a thing.

“Good Experience”

Former Systems Analyst in Chennai (India) – Reviewed 6 weeks ago

Pros – Verizon is a good company to work with, they have nice work culture and they give proper recognition to their employee.
Cons – The quality of work can be increased, more amount of good work can be brought. Innovation should be given the utmost priority

“Don't join as a vendor”

Current Senior Analyst in Hyderābād (India) – Reviewed 3 weeks ago

Pros – - Cool work if you have joined as a direct employee.
- Flexi timings.
Cons – - You will be as slave working for them if have joined as a vendor
- You have should be at desk for 8 hrs
- No proper infrastructure. You will not be given a workstation and have to work with others in a conference room.
Advice to Senior Management – Stop wasting most of your budget on vendors. Recruit 1 permanent employee rather than recruiting 10 vendors and paying 10x for each.

“Web Developer with 1 year of Experience in ASP.NET with C#”

Current Employee in Chennai (India) – Reviewed Aug 12, 2012

Pros – Transparent work ethic, Flexi-work timings, supportive teams
Cons – Work pressure, Less scope for Technical Skills development, WKS Machines are outdated

“good work , dynamic environment.. good for passionate techies- India offices”

Former Technical Lead in Hyderābād (India) – Reviewed Aug 4, 2012

Pros – Interaction with best people in telecom domain, teams quite adventurous and fast paced
Cons – tough HR policies in the form of restriction.. does seem to affect employees in a way they would want to check with HR everything they do outside their day to day work

“VDSI (Verizon India) World's Top Telecom company which offers you a decent career”

Current Software Engineer in Chennai (India) – Reviewed Aug 5, 2012

Pros – Company Founded by Alexander graham bell and Ranked 15 by Fortune500 (Apple is 17 ,Microsoft is 37, Google is 73)
Salary higher than any IT services companies
Cooperative USA employees
No work pressure in most projects
Cons – No foreign/onsite opportunities
No work from home option (Many US companies provides it)
Low quality long term employees promoted as managers

Placement

Sunday 28 October 2012

Verizon