Employer profile
No. 6
Verizon Wireless
Basking Ridge, N.J. [Middle Atlantic]
Why you want to work there
Top 10 ranking: No. 4 for training
This telecommunications company in Basking Ridge, N.J., invests in its employees, offering them online training, instructor-led courses and $8,000 a year in tuition assistance. All of that training pays off with successful tech projects, such as last year's launch of a new sales portal that was capable of handling exponential increases in usage as Verizon introduced three wildly popular Apple devices (the iPhone 4, the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2) in one calendar year.
| Rank by company size | Large, No. 3 |
| Employee Statistics | |
| Total employees | 83,096 |
| Total IT employees | 3,458 |
| IT employee turnover in 2011 | 7% |
| IT employee promotions in 2011 | 8% |
| Training | |
| Training days offered per IT employee in 2011 | 12 |
| Training budget per IT employee in 2011 | $647 |
| Women in IT | |
| Total percentage of women within IT | 30% |
| Percentage of IT managers who are women | 29% |
| Percentage of IT staffers (non-managers) who are women | 30% |
| Minorities in IT | |
| Total percentage of minorities within IT | 39% |
| Percentage of IT managers who are minorities | 31% |
| Percentage of IT staffers (non-managers) who are minorities | 41% |
