Fujitsu Network Communications Reviews

Pros

Stimulating work. Employees collaborate very well together. Good training ground for employment at other companies.

Cons

Career advancement is not encouraged. Limited executive opportunities for minorities and women.

Pros

-Has okay benefits.

-Holidays and vacations were good.

Cons

-Extremely bad employee moral.

-Lots of management here that's been here for decades (some of them a Quarter-century) and most are incompotent or clueless.

-Horrible place for younger workers due to non-promotion of internal qualified candidates in favor of nepotism (which is rampant).

-The most toxic work culture I've ever seen (turf wars, intimidation, widespread anger and frustration, bully style management who hire scapegoats, dysfunctional meetings, completely incompetent HR staff).

-Overall this place is just awful and I would recommend you look elsewhere (especially if you are young).

Advice to Senior Management

This company does have the technology and key employees to make it an outstanding company, senior management and director levels are the issue. The company ran much better many years ago prior to the so-called leadership what is in place now.

Pros

Excellent family and work life balance, while still be in the technology field. Good career development and management skills. Legendary quality.

Cons

Can be slow to enter the market, but once it does it performs well in the market. There is bureacracy, but, then again, it is a large, multi-national, multi-$billion company.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep steering it in the direction you are currently taking it. The expansion is having a dramatic, positive effect on the employees.

Pros

Great facility to work in and everyone is friendly and helpful. They have good products and their engineering is the best.

Cons

There was to much work for to few people to do the work. Software tools to do the work were not the best and always changing making it difficult to be efficient.

Advice to Senior Management

Get control of services proposal tool and make it user friendly so the amount of work that is requested to to be completed is done efficiently.

Pros

Small unit, very structured teams that do not interfere with each other's work.

Cons

Very slow paced work environment. Tendency of pushing work to next release. Resistance to change.

Pros

Big company with a little bit more job security/stability.

Cons

Constant deadlines with never enough resources. Motivation through shame. Management sets deadline based on wishful thinking and optimistic scenarios. Micromanaging with a great deal of paperwork. Lack of trust in engineer's abilities.

Advice to Senior Management

Set more reasonable deadlnes instead of setting everyone up for failure.

Pros

flexible work environment
choose work pace on your own

Cons

lack of bottom-up innovation
employee over-protecting their job function
lack high-quality standards

Advice to Senior Management

create quality-driven culture
encourage employee to innovate with new technologies
release job function control and allow employee to expand

Pros

Time flexibility, diverse group, liberal release schedules

Cons

less growth, limited exposure to new technologies

Advice to Senior Management

more recognition and rewards to engineers

Pros

Good work life balance
Team work

Cons

Career growth is limited and leadership pipeline is clogged

Advice to Senior Management

Need to weed out employees/managers who just discuss and talk. The top management needs to take an action to promote employees who add value to the company

Pros

FNC is a market leader in optical transport in the US. There is some flexibility in work hours which helps with work/life balance. An on-site gym is popular at lunchtime. FNCs largest customers are AT&T and Verizon so it has a strong customer base for its current prodcut generation.

Cons

Employees are siloed - they toil away in the dark and have little opportunity for any real recognition. You won't get rich at FNC. Upper management is isolated. There is a Japanese expat clique that keeps to themselves. US managers only talk to each other. You won't see them walking around the building talking with anyone. The real decisions are made in Japan - HW development is there too. Japan develops the products and dumps them on FNC to sell in the US. You are only provided with the information you absolutely need to have - knowledge is power so people don't freely share information. The company has a vested interest in laying you off before 5 years - before you vest in your 401K cause they keep the unvested funds when they get rid of you.

Advice to Senior Management

Walk out your door and talk with people - ask about what they do and how they do their jobs. Get to know a few more people than you direct reports and your secretary.