Nortel Networks Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

Was great to work for a company who was an industry leader in many areas of communications technology. Lots of opportunity to work with differrent technologies in many different markets.

Cons

Was great until a string of ineffective business leaders took charge. Too many changes in direction, poor business decisions and slow responses to markets led to the company's downfall.

Advice to Senior Management

Irrelevant now since the company is no longer in business. Needed to make better business decisions and to act more quickly.

Pros

Flexible work environment, telecommute friendly, great benefits & vacation.

Cons

Advancement difficult if not on highly visible project. Poor executive leadership. Too much reinventing the wheel. Too CMM level focused.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers, rotate people to different parts of project. Focus on journey of process improvement instead of CMM level

Pros

Nortel produced some of the most advanced products in the telecommunications field. The OC switching and the Enterprise groups really have great product portfolios to compete with competitors. Wireless was solid in TDMA, CDMA and LTE. The people you worked with were on average great people both professionally and personally.

Cons

Too many layers, complex matrix environment, too many people duplicating effort, focused on the wrong product (UMTS) whent he industry was leap frogging to LTE. Enterprise group should have led the way more to cut costs and bring in more revenue with Nortel brand recognition.

Advice to Senior Management

Too late the company is gone. So sad so many good people and products went under. If it comes back from the brink I would want to help bring this Canadian company back.

Pros

good salary, good benefits, relaxed environment

Cons

many to list here...wasted so much money on internal controls

Advice to Senior Management

should have had a good CEO

Pros

good training and career advance path

Cons

too much layers management, will become lazy overtime

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

great experience great company company. The benefits were greats the environment was great.
I really thinkNortel should come back and canadian govt should back it

Cons

too focused on cisco and forgot to create a date centric work force. Wireless plans were greats but lacked the aggression of ericsson and nokia

Advice to Senior Management

should have bought companies that were complementing not just for the sake of buying.
ALU and NOKIA are good examples on how to survive.

Pros

Good overall work enviroment and staff

Cons

Lots of info and technology to keep up with.

Advice to Senior Management

More cross training would be nice.

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.