Orange PLC Reviews

Pros

Fun environment, with commission very good potential pay for very easy job.

Cons

Can be boring on quiet days, have to mood the floor yourself

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing in particular

Pros

No qualifications needed, bar the ability to talk
Good benefits

Cons

Some poor shifts
Little room for advancement
Bad internal communication, ironically

Pros

big company to work for, you may be able to get some good job experience

Cons

no career development in the long term

Pros

Stable and easy, overtime happens rarely (excluding maintenance teams), many possibilites to switch workplace between varius departements, involved in large scale enerprise projects

Cons

At the very begining "Idea" (former name of Orange in Poland) was properly managed and reputable company. Once it was acquired by Orange (France) and TPSA (France Telecom) , things have been going worse and worse.
Nowdays the technical staff produce more reports and presentation for company executives that deal with equipment... Lack of career path, many managers with no abilities to act as managers...

Advice to Senior Management

let the technical staff carry out daily duties instead of filling excel sheets and update another presentations, provide technical specialists with carrier path possibilites in the area of technology expertise

Pros

A leading company with Friendly working environment
Often uses advanced technology
Awesome and intresting projects
Vey talented technical team in bristol.

Cons

-uncertainity of the jobs
-Management and communication with the staff is not upto the mark
-slow organization leading to delay in projects

Advice to Senior Management

communicate more with the individuals
Please sort out pay/ bonus differences like a senior developer & good performer gets less than a junior developer with not so great performace.
Decrease outsourcing and short term contractors

Pros

Very good life and work balance
Good Employer
Decent package

Cons

Uncertain about jobs going forward

Advice to Senior Management

communicate more

Pros

Friendly environment, generally flexible. Often working with cool technology.

Cons

HR staff are useless and buildings have poor facilities.
Processes are prevent things from being done internally. As a results the best work is outsourced to achieve good time to market but remains poorly integrated.
No chance of any creativity in the work place, you must stick to the process.
Lots and lots and lots contractors who are just there for the money.
Very old fashioned "top down" management, along with poor leadership and communication
Quite often given responsibility for things but not given authority to change anything to make things better

Advice to Senior Management

Replace yourself with someone else who understands what people need to do work.

Pros

Good location, nice office environment. Some very talented and skilled people in London office.

Cons

Lots of beurocracy. Little autonomy given, even to some very senior people within the organisation. Need to sell each project in to lots of different stakeholders. Slow time to action most things, meaning delays in projects and frustrations all around.

Advice to Senior Management

Drive change management to effect change on time to market processes and procedures. Allow more autonomy to staff to get the job done.

Pros

well-recognized company, leading company, many opportunities for job changes inside the company, dealing with interesting topics - VoIP, TV and web2.0, good environment

Cons

bad raises, slow organization which makes it difficult to release projects quickly, lots of contractors

Advice to Senior Management

decrease the number of contractors

Pros

- 45 days of holidays
- innovative and interesting projects
- the salaries are fair enough

Cons

- bureaucracy
- the size of the company is not adapted to fast track projects

Advice to Senior Management

give more flexibility to projects