Ericsson-Worldwide Reviews

Pros

Multinational company, benefits, salaries, competence building are nothing new to Ericsson. These are the things that attract job seekers there

Cons

Poor management, declining products and a lot of competition forcing Ericsson to start cost cutting, affecting employee satisfaction and attraction

Pros

technical leadership, multicultural, international, products important to peoples lives, fun, leadership challenges, fantastic colleegues, creative, longterm, structure and chaos

Cons

stress, internal competition, technical competence not well-respected by management, coteries

Advice to Senior Management

Act and behave in line with leadership thought by internal management training!

Pros

great place to learn
open environment
mutual respect
best medical and dental

Cons

fear of being laid off every year no matter how you perform or the company
if you leave company you cant join back it is an HR policy

Advice to Senior Management

Just think of the families of the people who worked here for their lives and they get laid off rather retirement is not a good practice. ERICSSON is the best company to work for. But just blindly following the policy of other companies will hurt in future may be not business wise. I love Ericsson, what an employee need is motivation; if lacking performance, dont just fire them all they need is motivation.
Why Ericsson has become so cold blooded is out of my understanding.
Same way if some one goes out cuase he/she was frustrated and now after realisation wanted to come back give them a chance...allow them to fight in competition...this guy will work extra hard now because he has reaslised the value of Ericsson......

Pros

be exposed to project relating to big customer; secure job comparing with industry counterpart in recent years; be able to make long term career plan.

Cons

The payment is relatively low comparing with other IT giants; internal rotation is kind of hard; no overtime compensation any more;

Advice to Senior Management

given the removal of overtime payment, the motivation of certain groups such as support and field engineers dropped greatly since no recognition was provided.

Pros

Good innovators in Technology , products and services

Cons

Soemtimes a bit slow in decision making

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

- large company therefore lots of room to move around
- well known company so looks great on CV
- great opportunities to work on cutting edge projects
- work/life balane
- telecommuting options

Cons

- if you expect to get ahead based on merit, you're living in la la land
- Ericsson is a telco company, so there is no understanding of what you do if you work in IT
- too many silos
- too many management layers
- boys club, particularly at management level

Advice to Senior Management

Don't be afraid to say NO to the customer! What customers ask vs what customers expect are two very different things, which can result in Ericsson not making any profit - isn't that the whole point of a company existing - to make money?

Pros

Great benefits and vacation package

Cons

Salary and advancement not available

Advice to Senior Management

Advancement and training

Pros

Good name in the CV
Good technical knowledge and reference
Good on-hands experience
Flexible working hours
Excellent place for non engineering jobs
Good place to work with minimum effort unnoticed

Cons

No actual fairness, the mid and high management are all Italian (according to the nationality of the chairman in Egypt, in Turkey the chairman in Turkish and so is the management and so on)
No transparency
No retention for employees
No clear policies
No stability
Polices are always used against employees and never for their sake
No respect (I remember RMEA chairman was transferring to us a very serious message regarding layoff and instead of showing any respect he was just laughing and was telling jokes as if every thing was OK from his side)
Foreign managers are just doing nothing and getting very high salaries (almost 10 times the local stuff in addition to accommodation, medical insurance and scholar ships

Advice to Senior Management

In RMEA and NEA specially please resign.
Please Hans check the situations in RMEA it is very bad.
Start working on the dialogue outcome

Pros

Ericsson is the leader in the telecom industry.

Cons

No appreciation
Unstable organization
Easy hire, easy fire

Pros

Good place to work for

Cons

More recognition will not hurt anyway status quo to be interrupt should be the first prority for all the managers

Advice to Senior Management

try to find the best leaders beyond the current ones, hard to join the club, harder to be out of the private club