NextWave Wireless Reviews

Pros

The work environment is great. The experience and knowledge of the team make it a great place to enhance your career. The meployees are treated very well and many subtle benefits make it a fun place to work.

Cons

The decisions of management often created doubt as to the direction of the company. Poor decisions were often unquestioned and led to poor results.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay more connected to the management team and ask deeper questions especially when things are better than expected.

Pros

Excellent engineering talent, good working environment, good career path. It attracted a lots of talent from big company like TI, QC, Nokia, etc., great deal to learn from each other.

Cons

Bad market to enter (WiMAX). If they picked LTE to start with, it may be a success story. Overall strategy unclear.

Advice to Senior Management

Unfortunately it is too late. It should have been started with LTE, not to acquire IPW, and be more cautious on cost.

Pros

They are a high tech company and lots of good research can be done.

Cons

They are not hiring much of people.

Pros

I was hired at NextWave about a year before the shut down in March 2009. During the short time I was there I met some good engineers.

Cons

NextWave is more or less a holding company for spectrum assets worldwide. The other divisions, including the semiconductor division were just there to fizzle out over time. I sometimes wonder if this was the plan all along and that upper management didn't really even care about this group. They certainly had the resources to keep it going, but just laid everyone off in the end. The lay off was handled very poorly as well, with basically no severance or job placement assistance given to employees. I can't imagine that a single one of NextWave's former employees looks back at the company with any remotely positive impression. I certainly don't.

Advice to Senior Management

The CEO once sent a big announcement to employees when an article was posted online that talked about how WAVE stock was a bad investment. OK, fair enough for a CEO to defend the company to employees. What's ridiculous is that when the big layoff happened in March 2009 there wasn't a peep of an announcement or any kind of apology from him to employees. I would love to hear him simply say "I'm sorry that things didn't work out".

Pros

Good Salary and interesting research and development work

Cons

Bad top-level management, waste of money

Advice to Senior Management

Think

Pros

good team, good product, but...

Cons

bad timing, over ambitious senior management.

Advice to Senior Management

be more thoughtful in buying other companies.

Pros

it is a visionary company
good people to work with smart and quick
cutting edge tech areas
location
fast paced

Cons

poor management
no budget control
heavy at top
decision making was poor and didn't know how it was done
no more things to mention

Advice to Senior Management

no real feedbac. the cons should be sufficient input it's a moot point anyway as the company major areas are shut down

Pros

Interesting technology and a good engineering team.

Cons

The company was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong senior leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

A lack of focus doomed this company from the start.

Pros

Cutting edge technology, great working environment

Cons

Bad direction from up top. Grew too fast and that may have caused their downfall

Advice to Senior Management

Had a great thing going but the plan was poorly exectuted

Pros

salaries are generally pretty good
stock options and stock bonuses
interesting work

Cons

hired too many employees at one point and company got bloated
lead to massive layoffs and company is a shell of its formerself

Advice to Senior Management

top management many some pretty poor decisions that has lead the company to the state it is in now... i.e. penny stock status