Nortel Networks Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time

Pros – Great place to work for

Cons – The company filed bankruptcy in 2010

Advice to Senior Management – Should have managed better, was a great place

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Comfortable environment, top notch tools, treated well

Cons – Like all big companies, some politics, to many meetings

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time

Pros – None, Nothing left but 5 people

Cons – Bankrupt, Poor management, great business case how to run a business into the ground

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – work culture, benefits, atmosphere, compensation, 401k match

Cons – mis-management by senior execs, cost overspends

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Employee friendly, larger company offering compete set of solutions

Cons – hierarchical system and different groups not sharing information

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Training investment, work/life balance, generous total compensation package

Cons – Dot.com bust and disreputable management decisions lead Nortel to bankruptcy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good benefits and good people; opportunities for training although job movement could be a challenge

Cons – Too many acquisitions drained cash flow
Management made some odd strategic decisions
Hard to shed old Telco mentality

Advice to Senior Management – Don't be afraid to take risks for future growth
Don't hold on to non profitable divisions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Payed well and was big enough to allow a variety of career experiences that created very good employee mobility. It was a terrific place in the 90s and the learning environment was dynamic and challenging.

Cons – Towards the end, the whole company got into bunker mentality and became more and more internally focused. This is the point at which many customers wanted other options. It was also very political in the core. We had a great reputation as firefighters. That's because in a crisis, all the organization BS was set aside and we focused on the task. After the crisis, we reverted to type.

Advice to Senior Management – No longer relevant.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Challenging work environment, always something new to work on

Cons – Constant layoffs, upper management only in it for themselves

Advice to Senior Management – Do not be so greedy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nortel Networks full-time for more than a year

Pros – Stayed away from me and let me work. My contract had me working onsite at a fortune 500 corporation and they were very happy with my work, so Nortel Mgt had no reason to bother me.
6 month contract extended three times into two full years.

Cons – Nortel Enterpise Operate was contracted to provide onsite services, they sub-contracted through a technical staffing company. After a couple of contract extensions they made me switch to a different staffing company which made me go through crap to get hired through the new company because their standard contract was so assinine that I would not sign. I made them rewrite 17 points of the contract or I would not continue the successfull work I was already onsite and doing. They had to cave, but how stupid. Then, Nortel Enterprise Operate never told the orginating staffing company what was going on and abanded them, and me to tell them I was no longer working for their company.
When the contract for the client finaly did end, Nortel provided me with no support in finding another position within the organization.

Advice to Senior Management – All are gone and/or merged into AVAYA.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend