Nortel Networks Reviews

Pros

life balance is not so bad

Cons

not a good place for care development

Advice to Senior Management

resign and leave

Pros

Salary compensation and great quality of work vs life balance

Cons

Low morale after 10 years of downsizing

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to put in place employee satisfaction initiatives

Pros

Great technology. Flexible work hours.

Cons

Bad leadership at the top.

Advice to Senior Management

No more Nortel (No Tel :))

Pros

New technology, great people to work , well placed to take advantage of the IPV6 adoption.
Strong presence in almost all countries of the world and in all SMB segments.

Cons

Bad industry downturn and decreasing userbase. Need a good path to upgrade from older proprietary technology and move to open standards and systems.

Advice to Senior Management

Innovate and acquire similar companies in the data/voice industry. Allow clients a clear path to migrate to a newer platform. Rectify all accounting errors of the past.

Pros

Great and innovative people
Looked after Channel Partner and Customers
Excellent products that do what they are meant to do

Cons

Incompetent Senior Management - bent on ensuring the Company is completely ethical - going so far in the opposite direction that it caused us to leave 100's of millions of dollars in lost revenues behind.

Advice to Senior Management

Please done do to any othere company what you have done to Nortel. No direction, leadership or creativity provided - shame.

Pros

Good salary, employee package, technical knowledge development opportinities, great sozual activities and company building

Cons

I`ve had 3 managers so far and 2 of them were unfair to employees .

Advice to Senior Management

Managers should be trained about people management

Pros

big company with a great history of telecom

Cons

chapter 11 has been very hard to handle and control duriing this period of time in nortel, but we belive

Advice to Senior Management

nothing

Pros

Many projects to work on, opportunities in the entire Software development lifecycle - requirements, development, test, integration, support, field support

Cons

Poor senior management - no directions, company has basically sold off all important pieces to other companies - look at competitors

Advice to Senior Management

look at your strengths ... your employees. many have left or moved to better opportunities.

Pros

You will learn anything and everything of technology history and innovation. Some of the best and bringhtest minds in technology work there and invented where we are today.

Cons

Bankrupt - need I say more
Access to gear was very limited
Senior management on deals are no where to be found.

Advice to Senior Management

I'd recommend taking a long hard look at ones self and telling yourself that you failed because you were too busy padding your own wallets

Pros

It has quite a few good people in the company, and dedicated to their works, and have been there for a very long time.

Cons

It is a very corrupt place, it is basically who you know, not what you know type of environment. The chance of getting promoted is only someone left or died.

Advice to Senior Management

Your actions have led to the company's bankruptcy. Many people got impacted because of that.