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Nortel Networks President, CEO, and Director Mike S. Zafirovski

Mike S. Zafirovski

President, CEO, and Director

12% Approve

“Neutral”

2.8
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  • Nov 20, 2009

    2.0

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    Nortel Networks Anonymous:   (Current Employee)

    Pros

    good compensation for the work done(not super busy)
    life/work balance
    broad technology base to learn, some smart engineers

    Cons

    1 person's work split into 2, too much specialized
    not good at developing people, constantly in surviving mode after 2001
    incompetent managers
    slow moving culture and old boy's club

    Advice to Senior Management

    transparency, fairness and learn your crap.

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  • Anonymous:

    “Pros and Cons”

    Nov 13, 2009

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  • Anonymous:

    “Great place.. too bad going bankrupt”

    Nov 6, 2009

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  • Senior Technical Support Engineer in Billerica, MA:

    “Exactly as dysfunctional as you'd expect from a company with Nortel's reputation”

    Oct 18, 2009

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  • Network Integration:

    “Going out of business. Not much else to say.”

    Oct 18, 2009

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  • Staff Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA:

    “Working @nortel”

    Oct 15, 2009

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  • Anonymous in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil):

    “A Great Company Destroyed ”

    Oct 7, 2009

    1 comment

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  • Anonymous:

    “Travel - Travel”

    Sep 28, 2009

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  • Product Manager:

    “Taken to chapter 11 by incompetent management”

    Sep 28, 2009

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  • Anonymous:

    “Nortel”

    Sep 23, 2009

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1 - 10 of 165 Nortel Networks Reviews
Nortel Networks Overview (NT )
Web
www.nortel.com
Industries
Wireline Telecommunications Equipment
Size
5000+ Employees, $10B+ Revenue
HQ
Toronto, Canada
Competitors
Motorola, Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent

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