SFR Reviews

Former Employee – worked at SFR as an intern for less than a year

Pros – great analysis learnings
good management guiding

Cons – no further career opportunities that time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SFR as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Big firm with interesting budgets for innovation projects (not true anymore in 2013). I was in a fantastic open innovation team, worked on pioneer projects and felt a very friendly and supportive atmosphere in the team.

Cons – Very poor management at C executive levels, always remainingin their Ivory Tower and incapable of long term vision. The company, very big, is made of silos that do not collaborate in general, which is a pity in a company with such talent. Innovations created by teams almost never make it to the public stage. Too much turnover in middle management and the company clearly abuses of short term contracts.

Advice to Senior Management – Establish a clear vision, dare, empower your teams, innovate. Stop behaving like kings on their throne, you are way too far from steve jobs for this. If you do not react quick, big troubles are ahead.

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

Current Employee – been working at SFR full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very interesting lots of evolution possible with motivation

Cons – Management inconsistancy with no Human ressource
Focused on shareholder, employee not view as a asset...

Advice to Senior Management – Short term management, untill directors/managers known they are here for a short term, they manage short term without strategy / lon term vision

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

Former Employee – worked at SFR as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – SFR has a great corporate culture, and as a Junior, I learnt a lot in very different fields : management, telecommunications, technology... I worked as part of two different teams in which I had a very interesting experience. SFR also offers good compensations ("Intéressement et particpation", bonuses...)

Cons – Difficulties to adapt to the changing environment in the market may destroy the great working atmosphere and the job opportunities at SFR

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

Current Employee – been working at SFR

Pros – Nice collegues and work environment

Cons – The work is quite repetitive

Current Employee – been working at SFR full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice place to work, good team and quite good management

Cons – The salary is too small and it is not easy to have a promotion

Advice to Senior Management – no advice

Current Employee – been working at SFR full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – fast paced and changing environment

Cons – disturbed market and extremely regulated

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

Current Employee – been working at SFR

Pros – . Good private life/professional life balance
. Relaxed atmosphere

Cons – . Not international at all
. Typical French firm:they look at your studies even after several years within the company

Advice to Senior Management – Forget about diplomas and rely on actual performance

Former Employee – worked at SFR

Pros – The technical projects are very interesting. In land and air network core system, back-office system, intranet, internet sectors.
It is possible to work on very complex projects, with more than fifteen, and maybe twenty, different skill sectors (sales, marketing, coordination, other project managers, technical support, software and hardware experts, solution providers, web agency ...)
And the very competitive business sector need an high reactivity.

Cons – The political relations are too important : You must know the right person to get one thing you need !
Work is too divided between many people in a project. It is almost impossible to promise a "Time To Market" to your Manager !
And when you want to switch to another job in the company, you just can get one in the same skill.

Advice to Senior Management – Please, open your mind !

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend