Flextronics Reviews

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

Pros – Easy job, acquired experience working for their contractor.

Cons – Didn't help with accommodating schedule, no set days or hours could be requested.

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

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for more than a year

Pros – You can gain a lot of experience

Cons – Somewhat unorganized at certain locations

Advice to Senior Management – Provide better training and meet with your team members individually to discuss improvement areas etc.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – One of the best supervisors that I've had seen embedded in the middle management. Cannot say much about the other management levels, but mine acts more as mentor and coach than supervisor. Great place to learn new technologies, my supervisor is the only one that pushes me into positions that allows me to grow with the company.

Cons – Other careers paths within the company pretty much goes stagnant and offers not much of growth and advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to know more of who's working for you rather than to only allow what your employees were originally hired to do.

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

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

Pros – Usually flexible schedule
Exposure to new mobile devices.

Cons – The management of the the RTS division is pitiful. I often wondered just how these people got their jobs.

The new hire training was a joke. The on-site training was full of drama and personal intrigue. There is no support from mid or upper management. If you follow policy, you are wrong. If you do not follow policy, you are wrong.

The company mantra is "Assign blame at all costs but, don't actually fix a problem."

Don't hope for a promotion unless you are a buddy of the person doing the promoting.

Raises are non-existant. Management has no idea of how to motivate, reward, or inspire.

Advice to Senior Management – At this point I would say clean house and start over. The problems are rooted so deep I see little hope to improve with current leadership and culture.

Fortunately I am moving on and have been hired by a company that is always in the top ten companies to work for.

Good riddance.

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

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for more than a year

Pros – Compensation and benefits are very good. I liked the people I worked with.

Cons – Layoffs every other quarter. No job security. Distance from my house to Flextronics was 90 miles round trip.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't hire someone full-time and then lay them off 6 months to a year later.

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

Pros – The variety is good. Pay is decent, and the onsite equipment is top notch. Location is convenient to downtown plano.

Cons – Like other reviewers mention, extremely lacking in direction, no feedback, political, and frequent layoffs. I was a contractor their, and this was communicated not only with management but in the attitudes of the regular employees as well. When I interviewed with them, they talked a good game, but don't believe the hype. I came down from my home of indianapolis on a 9 month contract to plano, texas, got laid off three months later. I was told that I was not picking up on things fast enough, but was not provided any specifics. This was while:
1) None of my projects were behind
2) No complaints from customers of the company
3) The regular employees felt a need to micro manage me and then bash me over the head in the form of copying a supervisor when I did something wrong. This only happened a few times, but you get my drift.
4) I never got angry and if I did do something wrong, I would relate the information to my team as I understood it, so I could be corrected. But beware, they will use this against you, because they are political like that.

Advice to Senior Management – Frequent layoffs creates an environment of fear, and when you cultivate fear instead of collaboration, you breed an army of automaton robots(employees) who are not innovative. It is also extremely unprofessional and inhumane to bring somebody down from a remote location, with a secure job only to lay them off three months later. While I understand the nature of contract work, people are not machines either. I should have thought of this though when the hiring manager for my position asked my recruiter if he had any good commodities on hand.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Got to work on Cisco Routers including 4g routers from Verizon.

Cons – Everything else. The promise of conversions for temp workers but instead keep them for 2 to 3 years and then lay them off. Most have to threaten to quit just to get converted. Place is unorganized and they still act like they have a culture there. Not by any stretch. All hands meetings feel like a slick preacher selling you pipe dreams.

Advice to Senior Management – You get what you pay for and thats why Cisco left.

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

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for less than a year

Pros – They really did well with training. I worked remotely and always felt communicated with and part of a team.

Cons – We were contractors so it was always a lot of pressure and stress to perform.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for less than a year

Pros – The pay relative to other repair tech jobs, repairing Apple laptops, got off work early most days except during peak periods

Cons – The people, unrealistic expectations, poor training, too many silly changes (including your job duties)

Advice to Senior Management – Don't just throw new repair techs into the fire with minimal training and expect them to meet expectations immediately or pair them with a group of people and expect that group to meet expectations. Make decisions that stabilize the work environment more, i.e. start and end times, job duties, and stick with them instead of changing regularly.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time for less than a year

Pros – Average pay for tactical work, thinking not required

Cons – If you are someone who likes to do what is told, like working with a bunch of robots, not-so-bright, not-so-ambitious, and not-so-talented people, then this is the place for you. Depressing environment, with old office furnitures, filthy bathrooms, no office supplies, no kitchen supplies, and dungeon-like facility. No room for growth. Arrogant people that has worked there all their lives and know nothing better.

Advice to Senior Management – Please hire intelligent, talented and professional individuals who can make a difference and fire those who are useless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend