3Com Reviews

Pros

People and compensation along with market position.

Cons

Change in Market. Market pressures new players. Interference from Govt.

Advice to Senior Management

get acquired

Pros

Great people. Good benefits. Sabbatical.

Cons

Precipitous downhill drop after USR acquisition.

Pros

Great location and exciting work

Cons

No information sharing and kept in the dark

Advice to Senior Management

Delegate more

Pros

Salary, benefits, and products for mid market + k-12

Cons

Management. They are complete buffoons from regional management up to and especially the Chairman of the Board

Advice to Senior Management

HP will help, but they are known to pay well below the industry average

Pros

- good work and life balance
- family-friendly
- nice working environment in regards to colleagues
- good salary and benefits

Cons

- constant restructuring made processes unreliable
- career progression very difficult
- technical training not easily available and sometimes not suitable for internal staff
- lack of resources to fully support customers

Advice to Senior Management

- should not have sold out
- communication with development made very difficult because of culture differences
- sad to see the company disappear

Pros

Compensation was very good and work-life balance was excellent. People enjoyed working there. Attitude was work together to turn company around, which happened.

Cons

Commute was long for many as Marlborough is in the Middle-west part of the state. Uncertainty about the company's future as acquision was always a possibility. It finally happened.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership is now all gone. Can't really offer them any advice. Bob Mao did a very good job during his tenure.

Pros

Great Technology and good life / work environment.

Cons

Sales poor, no sign of improvement

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to figure out where the companies core competency lies and then communicate that to the employees and customers.

Pros

The 3Com division, H3C, gave 3Com a new life and an edge to data center set of solutions to truly compete with Cisco from a technology, price and energy efficiency perspective. The company is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but internally, it feels like a start-up again. The company lacks an effective marketing machine though, so the story was rarely reported... until HP's announcement of their intent to acquire 3Com.

Cons

It's about to be acquired by the 320,000 employee company HP, and there don't appear to be many (any?) positives reviews about HP within glassdoor.com.

Advice to Senior Management

Congratulations for rebuilding 3Com, and thank you for the respect that you treat your employees with. I don't know if it will be possible, but I hope that you can maintain some semblance of our culture after the acquisition has been completed.

Pros

interesting technology. start up atmosphere, company is moving forward

Cons

long hours, constant change in direction of company.

Advice to Senior Management

last 12 months have been very much in right directi0n for 3Com

Pros

Culture within 3Com is great, information sharing and all working towards a common goal

Cons

Over the years jobs cuts have impacted the opportunities for career progression

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on driving us in the right direction