Ericsson-Worldwide Reviews

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

Pros – Exposure to to lots of people, networking, teaches you how to work under pressure, and how to work under bad boses. Teaches you time management.

Cons – No work/life balance if you are in the field. Lots of pressure. Unrealistic performance expectations. Reviews a joke, layoffs every year. Ericsson wants the employee to do all the right things, but in return does not reciprocate. They don't care about "people" , only production, and the moment you are no longer of use to them they invoke the "at will" clause and you're rudely out the door. 90% of training is online

Advice to Senior Management – Have your managers get the certifications you want your employees to get so they understand exactly whatthey are pressuring employees for. Ericsson is getting too big for it's britches. Keeps buying companies and laying off people. Your customers aren't happy and looking for how to get away from you.

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

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

Pros – Not much work pressure
Exposure to lot of different technologies

Cons – Non Silicon Valley culture i.e. no rewards for hard grinding work
European management totally socialist in nature

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great Workplace at Ericsson Plano

Cons – Dont think so there any downsides.

Advice to Senior Management – Great work.

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

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Global well known brand name. Good benefits.

Cons – Constant change, at times at the expense of loosing domain knowledge. Less transparent.

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time

Pros – Pretty decent pay and benefits. You don't pay for Health Insurance anymore which is a bonus in itself and the program is above average. Opportunities to advance within depends on who you rub shoulders with.

Cons – This company is the perfect example of the revolving door type of place to work. Many employees seem to be treated as throw-aways. HR is joke. They are unreliable and looking to protect the company's interest, not the employee.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your people more often and you might get better results at the end of the day. Don't be afraid to speak up to YOUR bosses.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The benefits are unparalleled in the U.S. The company puts a lot of emphasis on R&D/innovation and upper management is committed to recruiting new talent to bring in new perspectives.

Cons – Poor business planning leads to missed targets and an unhappy customer. Siloed organization means little true collaboration in building a plan to meet objectives. Commitment to new talent from upper management does not translate to commitment from peers.

Advice to Senior Management – Hold other members of upper management (rather than every day employees) responsible for poorly planned projects. Place employees in roles that utilize their talents.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide

Pros – Tons of exposure available ...you can work in many projects with your managers support

Cons – So far have found no cons

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

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

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Awesome benefits
Work with various customers with varied technologies

Cons – Lower management is powerless.
Mid-management is focused not so much on business direction as numbers and meeting specific "targets", whether or not those targets are truly good for the business

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on innovation and work on developing employees into the resources required for growth! Don't focus so much on margins that you lose sight of how to make a new product!

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

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Global footprint allows for growth within the company across many countries. Management overall it dedicated to the employee and to the success of the company. Services is seen as a valuable asset to the overall success.

Cons – Senior management in some areas are old school and expect employees to act as told with little motivation to do more.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue the global push and success - get rid of the old style managers and GM's

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Excellent work environment, professional, good networking opportunities, and get to work on client projects nationwide. High calibre co-workers, and generally good people to work with.

Cons – From a contractor perspective, you are not completely part of the team, since you have limited (none) access to documentation and training, which is provided by other companies in this industry. Generally you are processing data in a churn fashion, cookie cutter, and there is more push lately for sending this work to their teams in India, who generally perform less well causing problems for the end customer. However, this company on the corporate level is about maximizing profit, so jobs are gradually moving overseas.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider keeping this type of professional engineering job for engineers withing the United States, with good local engineers you cusomers will be happy, and this will benefit you in the bigger picture, even if you sacrifice a few dollars on the balance sheet for investors, and especially for executive bonuses. If contract engineers were more a part of the team, then they would be more encouraged to move into permanent positions, and really promote Ericsson as a leading company. Part of the team means access to tools and training, and more variety in their job function.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend