Cricket Communications

Cricket Communications

Employees: 4,651
Headquarters: San Diego, CA  
It's a Fact!
Cricket Communications’ online university helps its hourly employees create development plans and offers sales, leadership and technical training.
What We Love

Employees who enjoy giving back relish working for this wireless communications provider; they receive up to eight paid hours off every year to volunteer and can often be seen organizing donation drives and renovating homes in low-income neighborhoods. Their employer rewards them by offering great benefits, among them: annual tuition aid worth up to $5,250; adoption aid of up to $5,000 per child; 401(k)s with a company match; bonuses; and family medical, vision and dental insurance.

President and CEO: S. Douglas Hutcheson

Senior VP, HR: Leonard Stephens

Work hours required for family health insurance: 30

Formal advancement program offered for hourly employees? No

% of hourly employees promoted to manager positions: 3%

Job-skills training offered for hourly employees? Yes

Managers rewarded for helping hourly employees advance? No

Lactation program offered for nursing mother employees? No

Paid time off offered to employees? Yes

Employee mothers with one year of service offered extra time off (beyond the 12 weeks required by FMLA) following childbirth? No