Motorola Reviews in Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL Area

Pros

benefits, very good work. good people.

Cons

very unstable right now. I do not know if i am going to have a job today.

Advice to Senior Management

Work Hard. this is a great company. Quit if you do not believe in it.

Pros

Work/Life balance, Good Benefits package. Gym is available onsite. Flexible hours. Engineering is sound. In house prototyping capabilities. Multiple design centers. Credit Union available. Great locations. especialy in Ft. Lauderdale. In house cafeteria (could be a minus for some). Long History if innovation. Good 401K

Cons

Salary beginnig to be uncompetitive, Near term future is very uncertain. Morale is low at this point. Marketing seems to miss the mark. Merit increases are very poor at this time. Bonuses are not very good at this time. Some of the software tools used in house to increase productivity are actually impeding efficiency. Currently understaffed.

Advice to Senior Management

Make a decision quick about Moile Devices and move on.

Pros

Motorola is its best times had great people, great technical leadership, and the teamwork and support to engineering to make things happen. It was a company that you were really proud to be a part of and glad to make a contribution. And you were rewarded for your success and compensation. It was a great company to work for. Motorola was very good to me and my family.

Cons

While a lot of these people are still there, the culture has changed a lot. Motorola was great at creating technologies and leading in those markets [until the competition caught up]. It just seems that Motorola hasn't ever been good at competing in established markets and maintaining the leadership. I don't think that the model that Motorola thrives in is a viable model for business in the globalized world, which ironically, it helped to establish.

Advice to Senior Management

Not sure - stop worrying about pleasing the Board or shareholders and think about what would leave some sense of personal integrity and knowledge that you did the best that you could to see Motorola through the tough times ahead. Serve the company first.

Pros

The engineers are the most gifted and hard working people you would want to work with

Cons

senior management is lost, they manage the company with a business 101 mentality

Advice to Senior Management

leave, did you honestly believe that $12B in stock buyback was a better investment than R&D in your own company? A solid investment in the company would be a better method than stock buybacks to improve a stock price. The board and senior management of this company do not realize that money earned by a company should be treated with great care and not used as a personal bank account to play a game of Monopoly.

Pros

Innovative company with good engineers. A great global brand and global scope.

Cons

Management disconnected from employees. Mobile business adrift without leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest time and energy listening to the people and get them behind you.

Pros

The opportunity to restore luster to a proud American brand and corporation despite the painful mismanagement means advancement to come for those who affect change.

Cons

Credibility of management with employees, stockholders, and in their own ranks is completely dessimated by the missteps and lack of vision of the senior leadership team. This mistrust has made complaining a part of the work day at all levels. When senior leaders are over-ruled by the CEO with no explaination for why, no senior leader can justify belief in any message he carries. A clear vision of what we want to do and how we are going to do it is desperately needed and no longer expected because of the extended period of rudderless drift from the top. This vacuum has created a culture of do what you think is right, and having it randomly redirected.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that Motorola's only success has come from creating new businesses, not optimizing a commoditized market volume manufacturing. Motorola has forgotten the fortune made and lost in paging and is learning the lessons again in the cellular market it created. Motorola can succeed again if management recognizes the innovation AND the innovators that bring it's few successes. By fostering a culture of innovation, the successful new businesses will come in time.

Pros

Have a lot of time to manage my private things at work

Cons

to see how the ship is sinking

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on technology, and not focus on cost savings

Pros

Opportunity to work with Latest Technology.

Cons

No vision, management incompetence, and slow R&D to work itself into devices. Lack of software competence. Poor communication between organizations. It is pretty sad when the company who invented Six Sigma can implement it to save its own existence.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring contract workers and invest in employees. Use innovation to create more compelling products. Increase R&D investment, don't cut it.

Pros

Pay, location, patents, benefits, vacations

Cons

Most everything, poor management, terrible stock evaluations, lack of advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Break up the company, but the damage is done. They destroyed a great American engineer company. Thanks, Zander.

Pros

Good benefits, Good engineers, Bad marketing, Bad business folks, and Bad leadership.

Cons

It has an extremely bad senior leadership (CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, etc.).

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to basics and focus on customer needs and value. Stop focusing on wireless carriers, they are not the customers of mobile devices.