p Telecom Employers Sprint Corporation be effective." The web site also has a job search function and allows prospective employees to submit their resumes. Diversity efforts pay off In April 2004, Sprint ranked 11th overall in DiversityInc.'s list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity and was named as one of the top 100 businesses for college hires by The Black Collegian magazine. Sprint recruits and places top minority students in internships through partnering with INROADS, the Hispanic College Fund and the United Negro College Fund. In 2003, the company established a diversity council that is headed by Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee and supports several affinity groups for employees of various ethnicities. OUR SURVEY SAYS Unconnected when it comes to culture "The company's culture is very open, with less formal hierarchy than I expected in a company with more than 50,000 employees," one former summer associate reports. Sprint is "pretty laid-back, generally," says one employee. "The atmosphere is hard working but relaxed - in other words, not strenuous or stressful," says another. One staff associate describes the "young company" culture as "loose." However, one summer associate who turned down an offer to return reports that "overall, when you're dealing with Sprint, you're dealing with a large corporation." "Like all large companies, it does have its frustrations - see Dilbert," says another insider. Find your own center Employees say that Sprint management is markedly decentralized, even within Sprint's Kansas HQ, meaning that different departments may have disparate environments. "The group where I most recently had responsibilities was a very unstructured, self-motivated environment," says one long-time Sprint employee, "whereas others are more rigid and structured." According to another insider, "there are cultural tensions between the mature and more entrepreneurial groups within the company." "The company is very decentralized when it comes to implementation of policies - they are left up to local management