Motorola Reviews in Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL Area

Pros

Great people at Motorola. Engineers are encouraged to grow and develop their skills. Their compensation seems higher than the industry average. Committed to designing world class phones. Motorola products are some of the highest quality in the industry.

Cons

Work life balance can be bad at times. Engineers better be ready to hop on a plane to China at a moments notice. Motorola Mobility has reduced itself to a commodity company. They are just designing the "box". Android does the software that means they have control over the user experience. Anyone out their can design the hardware and in most cases do it faster and cheaper.

Advice to Senior Management

Look back to the IBM PC division. How long did they last when they let Microsoft do the software? IBM figured they could make the PC's better than anyone in the world. They never counted on the suppliers of the components and parts to be able to do it faster and cheaper. being number 5 in the industry does not give you access to the latest or best technologies.

Pros

The benefits are good, health care, child care and hours. Strong family company, training and Hr are all fair. overall a good company.

Cons

A company downsizing its US operations. More a survival working there then a company of growth.
Better days behind them .

Advice to Senior Management

More jobs needed for advancement. I feeling it left and relayed, you are luck to be working then you are needed.

Pros

Great team, knoledgeable people, Get to travel all over the globe.

Cons

Lay off all the time

Advice to Senior Management

Make up your mind

Pros

Salary is always paid on time. Some great customers, an excellent brand.
Solutions is making money in bulk. Great experience for a newly grad.

Cons

Arbitrary decision, warring tribes. Paternalism. Excess work for most, paid vacation for others. Pay is lower than competitors. Exporting high salary jobs to lower cost countries.

Advice to Senior Management

I think it is time to start noticing the trickle of people leaving before it becomes a river.
Wake Up please.

Pros

Good on par with most large Corporation's employee benefits packages

Cons

Too many mid and upper level managers with poor interpersonal skills

Advice to Senior Management

Don't promote the better technical leaders and experts to people management positions

Pros

pay was great, benefits were also a plus

Cons

a lot of going back and forth from mangement
bad culture

Advice to Senior Management

Be nicer to your downline, they are people just like you and are not trash

Pros

virtual work place is great

Cons

lack of communication and zero people oriented

Advice to Senior Management

just leave the company for people who have vision, spend on R& D. share your big fat salaries with those who actually work long hours to keep Motorola on its feet.

Pros

A good salary with decent benefits.
Work on some high profile products

Cons

Very very top heavy. Lots and lots of Directors, VP's and Senior VPs. If you get that high, you are set as they rarely get rid of Senior Management. The bad news is that the workers have to do more when layoffs occur since they keep the Senior Managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Sanjay Jha has a larger Senior Staff than his predeccessors, yet the company is significanlty smaller and losing money. There are many senior managers that have to look for something to do so they look busy. This creates alot of politics unecessarily.

Pros

Fun place [ used to be ...from 01 to 07] ; good benefits ; people are friendly. Less of a dog eat dog culture compared to more aggressive companies ; good work life balance ; if you were in IL during 03/04/05 you could have got a MBA from kellogs/u chicago for free basically.

Cons

its a titanic as everybody knows; I have hopes from new management , though Apple and others have changed the landscape way too much for any recovery now.
Pay is not competitive, which is one reason why time is spent on sucking up and useless innovations [ most mot patent disclosures ] , which don't make into products. politics is more than your average company ; a lot of oldies with hardware background or worse [ no technical background] in middle mngmt and sr management. 2 engineers for job of 1. Competition is a moving target ; first it was nokia, then Rim , now apple ; anticipation and desperation missing.

embraced google android [ although its a good thing now ] immediately when company spent 3+ years and 1000's of engineers on own linux-java platform. No pride or confidence in its own platform.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to lay off more people to be more competitive. Apple / HTC do the same job with 1/3rd people and better. Pay better salaries to those who remain. Cut down on # of products. Visit satellite sites and get in touch with reality and the culture. Sanjay, you need to essentially change the "culture"

Pros

Motorola seems like a good company as far as "large" companies go. I think they have a lot of organized resources, and is a good place to learn new skills. There are definitely experts who can teach a young engineer a thing or two. My coworkers seemed to be a generally good group, competent, experienced, fair, and about as much fun as could be expected. I had lots of opportunities to take on projects and responsibility and never felt management was holding me back.

Cons

I noticed some politics between groups, and sometimes felt the management could have done more to reduce this

Advice to Senior Management

It's time to pick an innovative direction and execute the project.