InterDigital Reviews

I have been working at InterDigital full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Profit-sharing, Annual bonus, opportunity to work with latest wireless technologies

Cons – Lack of vision; This company is big into patents and legal so Engineers are treated as second class citizens.

Advice to Senior Management – look at long term goals rather than keep changing your strategies every short while. This will create a lot of distraction in the work place and results in a poor efficiency from the Engineers.

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

I worked at InterDigital full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Pay and bonuses well above industry average
Work on cutting-edge wireless
Job security for authors/co-authors of numerous patent applications
Mostly good people to work with
Relaxed working environment (typically no product deadlines)

Cons – Hard to advance past Member Technical Staff for engineers
Has a reputation as a patent troll
Limited transparency of executive decision making down to employees

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to drive the business through engineering innovation instead of purely patent driven decisions. Good engineering will always create value in some form.

I have been working at InterDigital full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Compensation is on par with industry for engineers and IT, however the KOP location is rather remote from any activities or a city.

Cons – Entrenched in outdated processes, The Board and CEO trying to sell the company. Department projects and goals rarely met which affected your bonus - when they didn't cut it at the year's end. No yearly bonus if you leave before 12-31. KOP location is rather remote and all major access roads have heavy traffic during peak times.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop trying to sell the company so The Board and CEO can have a payday, and get back to letting the engineers be innovative. Prorate bonuses when someone leaves of their own accord.

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

I have been working at InterDigital full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work environment,
open research environment

Cons – R&D not applicable that much to product development
The company is trying to invest in many small projects and this make it not specialized in any thing in particular

Advice to Senior Management – Unclear vision for most of the employers on where the company is heading and its future. Management should make this message clear.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at InterDigital

Pros – Salary
Incentive plan
Good location for families

Cons – Suffocating, unexciting environment
Unstimulating work
Personal development opportunities very limited.

Advice to Senior Management – Look closely at past achievements of new hires and use that to carve a challenging career path for them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at InterDigital

Pros – a very relaxed pace of work, good base salaries, good bonus and compensation, freindly atmosphere, job stability, very good work- life balance

Cons – insufficeint technical challenge, poor middle management who does not care about proffesional and carrer growth, most people are near retirement- very few young and dynamic people. Dfifficult to change groups- easy to be stuck in a rut

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the fat!. This is a top heavy organisation. Add more young engineers. Make promotions more uniform. Allow people to change groups

I have been working at InterDigital

Pros – One of the pros with InterDigital is the opportunity that people get to work on latest technologies. There is lot of freedom to move from one area of work to another within the company.

Cons – There is no concept of work-life balance for people working in the product teams. Working for 6 days a week with really long hours each day is quite common. These crunch times lasted up to one to two years instead of a few weeks/months which is the norm in many technology companies.

Advice to Senior Management – InterDigital started product development, hired a team and laid of people and repeated this process three times in the last 9 years. It should put more thought into what it wants to do in the product space before actually hiring the people and bring in people with product experience into the exec team. It is completely reliant on patents that are either silly or are good but about to expire for all the revenue and this can not be the long term plan of the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at InterDigital

Pros – Small Company. Nice compensation. Flexible work hours

Cons – Growth prospects nil. No recognition to small fish. Full of Directors/VPs
Executive management lacks direction and leadership

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the meetings and discontinue using powerpoint slides during All hands meeting

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at InterDigital

Pros – It is small company. So the environment is very competitive. Engineers are one of the smartest engineers. Benefits given to engineer are sometimes are good. Every innovation is paid a lot for. Contributions are valued a lot. you can be a large fish in small pond very fast. Diverse group of people to work with.

Cons – Senior management lacks direction. In fact entire upper management team lacks direction.
Number of meetings are way high. Which makes is less productive space.
All Allhands meetings presentation, more-or-less look "identical"

Hiring HR Stinks. Upper management doesn't seem to realize that they miss a lot of good ppl who want to work with this company because of the hiring manager.

Advice to Senior Management – They need to clean up themselves. a lot of junk folks. Remove some patent hungry folks.

I have been working at InterDigital full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Family friendly, fantastic people, great opportunity for advancement, interesting work, great benefits and compensation

Cons – Can't think of any downside to working at InterDigtial

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