ARRIS Reviews

Former Employee – worked at ARRIS full-time

Pros – Great company when you finally get in . You need to know someone there or a good outside recruiter that works with Arris. Their recruiters left me and several of my peers in the big " internet hole". I had to go in from an agency or I my resume might still be lost in cyberspace.

Cons – Not sure where things are going with all of the changes. They had bought several companies and are growing. I left a few months ago because of all the changes.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a better recruiting team

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ARRIS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good team. Great manager. The work is challenging, and not monotonous. Not everyone knows everything about the same customer issues you have to deal with, so working out technical issues is interesting.

Cons – Training quality for techs isn't good, if you don't have previous cable industry experience... and find someone who has both IT *and* cable industry experience is very difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – Offer more training.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARRIS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The compensation was good well within industry standards.
Company is very understanding of work/life balance. A lot of very smart people in the Beaverton office.
Layoffs were avoided whenever possible.
The company would look to promote from within when a qualified internal candidate was found.

Cons – They are strictly suppliers to the cable TV industry so as the needs of the cable companies surge and wane they are vulnerable to the ups and downs of this one industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Expand the business by selling to telcos like Verizon.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ARRIS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good benefits and working environment.

Cons – hard to get into the front door.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ARRIS as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Great Senior Executives and Directors...........

Cons – I wish my office was bigger?

Advice to Senior Management – Congratulations and Good luck in 2013

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARRIS full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – decent benefits, pay, work -life balance

Cons – no opportunity for advancement/promotion...too structured

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ARRIS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – good benefits, easy going environment, good people. This is assessment is based on my department. I have heard of other departments that are more stringent and tight. So, it depends on who your direct report may be and your peers.

Cons – Although for some departments, it is a comfortable working environment, it doesn't seem like one can grow there. A good place to get experience.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ARRIS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – ARRIS MTA and CMTS groups are strong and the products are solid. Technical and managerial leadership in these groups are industry leaders.

Cons – Some of the other groups within ARRIS are challenged by trying to integrate technologies and cultures as a result of acquisitions. These groups would benefit from leadership with vision for the product lines.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ARRIS full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – 1. One of the top vendor in Cable industry
 2. Enjoy proven stability in joining a company which has a proven track record of technology
     leadership spanning over 55 years
 3. Flexibility of working hours

Cons – 1. Even though its a mid-size company internal promotion prospects are rare.
2. Not much focused in investing on individuals training and development.
3. Annual reviews are for namesake.

Advice to Senior Management – Its a long road before they can effectively capitalize on the software company acquisitions they have made in the past. A lot of synergy needs to happen between the hardware and software division and it can only happen if management can work hard and prioritize this effort.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ARRIS

Pros – good salary and benefits
lots of process experience
respected within industry
lots of opportunities at contributor and middle management level
ability to network within broader industry

Cons – overly hardware focused, software business lacks investment and sales focus
overly process focused - takes up huge portion of workday and detracts from time that might otherwise be spent of business development and coming up with new ideas

Advice to Senior Management – make decisions faster, be bolder, be more innovative, kill or sell off products that company does not really intend to grow, make sales organization more agile