Sierra Wireless Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Sierra Wireless

Pros – Excellent people to work with. The company works with cutting edge technology. Free health, vision, and dental insurance.

Cons – The commute may be a long one since the office is located in Carlsbad.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work!!!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The atmosphere at the Newark location is very close and employees here are very respectful and team oriented.

Cons – The compensations and raises they give anually/yearly is way below the average market. As an employee working here for almost 5 years my total raise from my starting pay to what I earn now has been $0.75!

Advice to Senior Management – Be open to suggestions from all levels to help improve certain departments. Help appoint leads very all departments and motivate employees with better compensation and promotional opportunities.

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 Sierra Wireless

Pros – Nice colleagues, sharing of knowledge. Flexible work hours and respect for each other. No trouble makers, atleast among the engineers.

Cons – Sr Mgmt has no respect for the engineers. There is no direction and maturity of projects.

Advice to Senior Management – Value your employees, and know what you are up to.

Current Employee – been working at Sierra Wireless as an intern for less than a year

Pros – It was a good work environment, people were friendly and welcoming. Generally everyone's helpful in bringing you up to speed and answering any questions. The offices were nice and comfortable, and the cafeteria had subsidized food.

Cons – The manager did a lot of micro-managing. The work was pretty repetitive after a while because it was a lot of routine testing on the same products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sierra Wireless full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Very good CEO and senior management team. Good bunch of folks really know what they are doing

Cons – Can't think of the cons for now

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up the good work and drive our stock price up

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

Former Employee – worked at Sierra Wireless

Pros – They seem to treat their employees and contractors equally well.
Quite a few social events.

Cons – Fair share of layoffs over the years (but similar to other local high-tech companies).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sierra Wireless full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great technology,
Great market position
good working environment
Good people
Excellent speed to innovation
Great capital resources
Very competitive pay
Great benefits

Cons – Poor horizon for their current market,
Not well focused on diversifying for the future changes.
Too focused on current stock price, and not on long term planning.
Poor value of employees

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

Current Employee – been working at Sierra Wireless

Pros – Sierra Wireless has hommization management. It respects for employee of the development of the ideal, and provides wide-range development space.

Cons – First, Sierra Wireless has high operating costs, especially compare with Huawei, ZTE etc.
Second, Sierra Wireless can't provide competitive salary, so it's hard to hire excellent employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to make a difference, provide special value for customer, focus on the high-profit niche markets, avoid price war with Huawei and ZTE etc.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sierra Wireless

Pros – Learning wireless technology at a detailed level
Top engineering talent, good program managers
Senior management makes careful, well-reasoned decisions
Good health benefits
Good team environment within engineering

Cons – Weak compensation increases across the board, even with positive performance reviews
Limited career growth for engineering. Nearly all executives come from up from sales or marketing ranks.
Company is conservative about going into new areas of wireless. Usually doesn't pull the trigger until a competitor already has something in the market. Doesn't invest incompletely new areas of technology, always building on the last stuff incrementally.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sierra Wireless

Pros – -Best in class mobile product
-Good medical benefit
-Strong RF engineering team
-Efficient management.
-Friendly staff and respectful management in Sierra.

Cons – -Limited non-RF engineering growth
-Non-RF engineers are prone to layoffs.
-Company shifting focus to Asia. Reduced resources for NA employee.
-Company in transition from mobile computing to M2M. Future uncertainty.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to establish a more personal connection with your employee. Don't cut cost by cutting into medical benefit premium and Christmas dinner.