Data Engineering at Verizon
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L7 principal data engineer at Verizon sits around $551K total comp from 36 verified salary datapoints. The ladder runs from about $162K at mid up to $551K. Verizon pays data engineers above the other companies we track. Reviews put them at 3.7 on Glassdoor, a little below the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at Verizon reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days.
Verizon data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Verizon offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Verizon employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Verizon events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- LayoffMay 2026Layoff
- Exec departureFeb 2026Leadership change
- LayoffJan 2026~54 roles cut
- Exec departureJan 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureDec 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureOct 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureAug 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJun 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureMar 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureFeb 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Practice for the Verizon loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the Verizon loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Verizon with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Verizon interview difficulty
- 01
Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
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5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition