Motorola Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

For me, the pay and benefits were good. I enjoyed the people I worked with on projects.

Cons

My management over the last 5 years was horrible and disconnected. It was a giant political game and one where my manager would step and crush anyone to make sure their job was preserved. There was a huge lack of communication from the executive management down.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing, because they would not listen anyway. Management will continue to do what they want, when they want and to whom they want.

Pros

Good work environment, Good co-worker

Cons

Opportunity of growth is limited

Advice to Senior Management

They need to make this company more people company, stop sending jobs to India and China, it is killing the moral of the workers.

Pros

Work Flexibility and very understanding management.

Cons

Could have better salaries and perks.

Pros

good technical people. very talented engineers.

Cons

senior management screw ups. everyone wants to build their empire and lost of time and efforts go into this

Advice to Senior Management

leverage the talent that you have more effectively. its one of the best engineering companies.

Pros

Work culture is great. Mgmt is very accommodating with respect to work hours/place.

Cons

Company has way too many mgmt folks..this is supposed to be a technology company but its sad to see that this is turning out to be bureaucratic corporation.

Advice to Senior Management

Start laying off half the mgmt including the CEO, hire more technically competent people. Provide a good road map for the company and think in terms of creating more synergy between various businesses instead of breaking the company.

Pros

Smart employees, good teams, hard working individuals
Competitive compensation package
Middle management shows respect for the team members
Good work-life balance

Cons

Lack of career growth and advancement in specific locations
Constant layoffs
Company dabbles in too many businesses and products. What's the core competency?

Advice to Senior Management

Show a strategic vision for Motorola Networks
Strive to be a #1 player in the field
Invest in R&D. This is the right time to invest
Constant trickling layoffs hurt employee morale

Pros

Excellent work ethic and cooperation among fellow employees.
Very high performance product, state of art receiver and transmitter design
Employees treated well, for as long as you can keep the job

Cons

Motorola will not invest in future, short sighted.
No research, not even development funding
Self destructive out-sourcing
No respect for manufacturing integrity

Advice to Senior Management

If we eliminated the CEO position, we'd be $150M better off and no worse for quality management..
Product and project management do not do anything and should be eliminated. Bring customers in and have them talk to engineers and engineering mgmt.

Pros

Flexible (maybe too flexible) work hours, generous time off.

Cons

Development jobs continue to be moved offshore. Morale non existent. Most managers think the heavy handed approach is best. Senior leadership cannot inspire. Training and travel budget non-existent.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your domestic human capital.

Pros

Motorola regularly launches initiatives that push into leading edge technologies.

Cons

Motorola has a hard time following through with its initiatives. It is difficult-to-impossible to bring together a complete end-to-end solution because of internal silos which focus on individual "boxes." Also, Motorola's deficiencies in developing usable user interfaces makes it very difficult for Motorola to sell into markets that are technology-based but increasingly consumer-oriented. Recent economic conditions also mean Motorola is focusing only on products that it can sell within the next year. This additionally limits its ability to innovate. (Note that these comments apply to the infrastructure side of Motorola, not the cell phones -- which are a completely different kettle of fish.)

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management must communicate its strategy for the company. Communication from Greg Brown has been essentially non-existent. As a result, the company appears to be foundering, pushed around randomly by every economic wind and lost contract.

Pros

It's a great opportunity to gain experience in the industry and make extensive contacts. All future employers will have heard of Motorola. The benefits are fairly competitive when compared to the industry. The products are cool and if you would like to change industries, you can go from set top boxes, to cell phones, to two way radios. The corporate culture is ethical and focuses on proper treatment for everyone. There are many locations to work at and I've worked at four, three in IL and one in Texas. Overall, the company has good leadership and good opportunities for advancement.

Cons

Constant worrying about job stability. Many layoffs tend to stifle employee morale and makes people unproductive while they talk around the water cooler. Also, the software for the products seems to be slow and has lots of problems. The products are made well in a hardware sense but not in the software sense. The food cafe is cool but the prices seems to be a little on the high side. I would expect that the company could afford to reduce prices but I guess they hire food works to do it so oh well. I need just three more words.

Advice to Senior Management

Morale suffers greatly with so many changes. Find a plan and stick with it. Enough of the 5 "C"s or twelve "M"s or whatever cute acronym is next to describe the semi annual policy change