Granite Telecommunications Interview Paper

Granite Telecommunications headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts. There are also locations in New York, Lincoln Rhode Island, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Orlando, and West Palm Beach Florida. The largest employee base is in the Quincy office. Directly from their website Granite is a leading communications services provider for businesses with multiple locations. Granite provides voice, data, Internet, wireless, video and secure network at wholesale rates all on the same package in order to save these multi locations money. I interviewed regional account manager Pat Prince and I also got the chance to speak with Jennifer Chu, the director of business development and Charline Caetano, the director of sales. This is an inside sales position,

During this interview I learned that this job is very difficult since you are expected to make about 100 calls a day where maybe 3 people are actually receptive to your call. Every person I talked to said the exact same words and that was you’re going to spend the majority of your day getting your teeth kicked in and that is something you have to learn to deal with. It also seems that it takes about a year for someone to get a grip on the role and being completely competent. It takes patience to trust in the processes, but impatience to want to keep working hard to get to that level of

One of the major themes of each conversation I had was that this job is difficult, but if you're willing to work hard and want to work hard you will be successful. This company’s structure is also something people find difficult. The day starts at 8:00am and ends at 5:00pm. It is known to all employees no one comes in at 8:01 and no one leaves at 4:59. Although the company’s structure is very rigid, Granite loves to do charity work. Every Friday if you’d like to wear jeans to work you would $3 and all the money would be donated to a charity nominated by an employee. Also every year the CEO donates $5,000 for each employee and any of their friends or family members who will shave their heads or donate to locks for love to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Philanthropy is a huge part of the culture at