Nortel Networks Reviews

Pros

It was a good company before it became too big.

Cons

Management lost connection with the people.

Pros

life work balance is good,

Cons

limited young labor force, I started as intern and i was the only one in the building.

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

Challenging work on a variety of technologies.
Great people - dedicated and smart!
Ability to grow in breadth via lateral moves within the company.

Cons

At the end it entered Bankruptcy, which presented a lot of uncertainty which lowered employee productivity and broke employee initiative.

Pros

lots of responsability as employees were let go, we were expected to pick up the slack

Cons

low morale as employees were not sure of their future

Advice to Senior Management

work to increase morale

Pros

good training and career advance path

Cons

too much layers management, will become lazy overtime

Pros

customer centric. great benefits and salary.

Cons

Management incompetencies which ran the company into the ground.

Advice to Senior Management

thanks for nothing

Pros

A great community of people who care for the same end result. You are never held back because of who you are or what you do.

Cons

The stress of seeing your co-workers (friends) getting laid off. Not knowing what the future holds and how the end result will be for you

Pros

Organizations,Sport,free, good people, good firm culture

Cons

Heavy processes,too much bureucracy, old software tools, resistance to new tech., low salary

Pros

With perks like an on site bank, gym with rock climbing wall, meditation spaces, etc., it seemed like the org really supported its employees.

Cons

In such a large company, it's easy to find yourself in an unimportant position in an unimportant department in an unimportant arm of the org.

Advice to Senior Management

I would advise the Nortel Networks management team to focus less on cute perks designed to attract employees. There was a lot of waste.

Pros

Great benefits, plenty of opportunities to learn and grow within the organization. Flexible

Cons

Poor executive management. you take your work home with you.

Advice to Senior Management

Company could have thrived for 100 more years if not for greed of senior execs.