Nortel Networks Reviews in Ottawa, ON Area

Pros

Always working on leading edge technology. Working with competent teammate highly knowleadge in their field. Worked with customers that loved the company.

Cons

The incompetency of the top management that brought this top companies to bankrupcy destroying thousand of career in same time.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not repeat these mistakes on your next assignment. Try to upgrade the company you are working for not to destroy it.

Pros

great technical work environment, most managers were good, stimulating, good benefits, diverse possibilities for career progression.

Cons

the company did not last

Advice to Senior Management

better management at the very top, no more accounting cheats

Pros

• Advanced technology in communication technology
• Very talented people to work with
• Lots of opportunities to grow
• Very good work environment

Cons

• Up-level management had issues to grow the company
• Too many things to focus at company level
• Went bankruptcy and lost job

Advice to Senior Management

• Should focus on the growth of the company
• Know your competitor
• Do not allow this to happen again for Canadian company

Pros

always felt I made a difference
enjoyed the company of other members of my teams

Cons

did not except such a large company to fall so drastically

Pros

Excellent compensation and benefits with bonus structure for retaining employees. Opportunities abound with so few people left to do all the work that needs to be done.

Cons

The company is downsizing having been in bankruptcy protection for the past 18 months. Your job is limited in time by the eventual closure of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the ship running in the current direction, ensure the retention bonuses are paid out to the employees who have remained.

Pros

-- Good Experience
-- Exposure to Programming(OOP)
-- Exposure to Agile Practices
-- Excellent work ethics and work culture
--Exceptional Opportunities provided
--Manager and co worker very helpful

Cons

--Company sinking, no job security
--Less compensation
--Fewer places to move within companies
--stuck with same kinda job forever
--Kinda start liking it in the end(too much slacking and reading newspaper at job makes you dull)

Advice to Senior Management

--Take Control
--Atleast choose able Management
--Be stricted
--Start paying more to employees
--Take a fresh start and forget all about legacies and ethics that Nortel was once know for being an industrial and stock Market leader
--Please use your brain

Pros

Plenty of support is available. The environment is very relaxed. The only stress would be the anticipation of getting laid off. The Carling Campus was very pretty

Cons

I did not find a lot of opportunities for growth. The career advancement is very limited. The laid back environment could make you lazy as well

Advice to Senior Management

The management should seriously focus on improving the culture. The culture of being proactive and innovation needs to be brought back

Pros

Great individuals to work with. Lots of telecom history and industry veterans who still work there under the Ericsson banner. I wish them well.

Cons

Lots of good talent held back by lack of accountability in project execution, and multiple layers of incompetent middle management. Horrible executive team.

Advice to Senior Management

None- the corporation is dead, and management deceived its employees all the way until the bankruptcy began. RIP Nortel.

Pros

salary
flexible hours and telecommuting
benefits
training
attention paid to ensuring employees had good soft skills and treated each other with respect

Cons

management propaganda instead of realistic internal communications
stifling innovation environment in the last 10 years; very technologically conservative

Advice to Senior Management

the board should have paid closer attention to what senior management was doing
the board had no vision of what the company was supposed to be

Pros

Complete lack of accountability (if that is what you are looking for), Lack of vision & strategy allows you to pretty much do whatever you want - regardless of how it might impact the business (call it creative license), Out of touch with customers - so anyone can claim to know what the customer wants, You get to be around gifted people - whose gifts go completely to waste

Cons

Working on project after project that gets canned, No opportunities for promotion, the rare person who is promoted leaves you scratching your head as to what possible attributes account for said promotion, belief that great technology will lead to a great business

Advice to Senior Management

Collect members of janitorial staff, assign them your jobs.