Openwave Systems Reviews

Pros

small company, quick responses and small decision process.

Cons

Openwave is not a good on employee recognition.

Pros

great place to work, i like it

Cons

too many people to know everyone

Pros

Nice co-workers. Good location. Great existing customers.

Cons

Flawed strategy. Too much politics.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on company

Pros

Niche space, strong legacy, good work life balance, had options to work from home while meeting your goals

Cons

No real innovation,bad execution, inefficient R&D, no sense of direction/strategy from upper management

Advice to Senior Management

cannot outsource your core strengths and need to do a much better job at execution while hiring more capable business managers. If they screw up, then the company is bound to go downhill.

Pros

- Smart people and good products
 - Good benefits
 - Nice office location with free gym facilities
 - Good customer base

Cons

- Lack of growth opportunities
- Lack of training
- Need focus on few products and better execution of product strategy

Advice to Senior Management

- Provide growth and training opportunities for employees
- Management needs stronger technical leadership
- Continue to innovate and focus on product quality

Pros

Competitive salary, benefits package. Good onsite gym, outdoor pool. Cutting edge industry.

Cons

Not as much innovation (although some promising developments recently). Lofy ideas, with little execution. Too much executive churn in last 5 years.

Pros

Good People & benefits, good technology

Cons

shrinking market size, no loyalty

Pros

Huge opportunity to learn because you will be moving from one project to another in 3-4 months

Cons

Management team is not intelligent enough to set the direction of the company

Advice to Senior Management

Be focused and respect employee

Pros

Some interesting work and challenges, good salary and benefits. Some good people.

Cons

very demanding customer base, employee burnout, long hours, company shrinking, long history of upper level management churn, though more stable last couple of years. Large amount of engineering outsourced; problematic. IMHO will continue to struggle and decline. Very little employee training or general education other than product-specific.

Advice to Senior Management

yadayada

Pros

Pay reasonably well, high tech, you can work fairly independent, are in good market provided products and solutions get R&D attention.

Cons

Company has lost its edge a high tech supplier with cutting edge niche products and solutions. Have 'milked' cashcow products until it was too late without new 'stars'. Staff generally not treated with highest respect; as they say 'use, abuse, throw away' or 'hire & fire' mentality..... Company is an accellerating downward spiral.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the long term. Entrepreneurship from the early days has disappeared. Dont let productgroups 'drive' the company. Weigh financial targets against the companies' solutions and customers, so you don't get disappointed later and have to lay off (the wrong) staff...