Pros

Working in a very dynamic environment, committed and talented employees, company can develop outstaning products, lots of freedom if you willing to take the initiative and don/t mind working extended hours.

Cons

Poor leadership from senior management has resulted in a very poor performance in terms of delivering compelling products and with high quality. Poor follow up on issues which means things tended to drift with no decision. Because there is no clear direction people are running around like headless chickens doing their own stuff and making decisions in their own silos. What a mess!

Advice to Senior Management

Company needs clear direction to move forward to address these issues and clear out a lot of dead wood. Hope the new president has the persistence and energy to drive thru the needed changes quickly so Sony Ericsson can get back on track.

Pros

You work in international teams and have opportunity to travel. Since it's a large company there are a lot of training opportunity. In Sweden management is very open to parental leave, also for fathers.

Cons

The strategy communication from management is weak as is comittment for the overall company goals for the separate units. Management is young and often inexperienced, there are many specialist managers rather than people managers.

Advice to Senior Management

The more you communicate goals and decisions the more committed and engaged people in the organisation. The silence from management tend to worry and delay decisions that would have moved teams foward.

Pros

Lots of own responsibility. Managment in sweden is on a friendship level.

Cons

hard to correct bad salary and hard to advance if not having lots of luck

Advice to Senior Management

Promote the people that are working full hearted..All of the manager and senior managers are not acting correctly towards there employees

Pros

Sony Ericsson in RTP has a reasonbly good work life balance, with really good benefits. The salaries seem to be relatively competitive.

Cons

There is definitely a glass ceiling for engineers. This may also be true for engineering careers in general, but if you are in a specialized area that is where you will remain. There is the constant threat of layoffs, of course. The Research Triangle Park site is a satellite site with little political power. It is a puppet resource to be used up until the day it is no longer competitive. There is a feeling that all of the design sites are competing with each other, which goes against the lip service of "we must all work together."

Advice to Senior Management

Decide what products you want, and stick to it.

Pros

The people are extremely passionate about their products. Sony Ericsson also treats their employees very fairly and is a great supporter of family. Their cultural diversity and global footprint makes it a very interesting place to work. They are a good balance between being too small to make a difference in the world but not too big to get lost and not see the diffference that you personally can make.

Cons

Sony uses it as either a place to send old executives to pasture or a place for inexperienced executives to make mistakes. That is killing them and creates a "glass ceiling" for non-Japanese. They need to hire some good, outside management.

Advice to Senior Management

Break free from the curse of being Sony's executive dumping and testing ground.

Pros

It was a good experience. The pay was competitive for my position and the raises were decent, and better those at other companies. The paid time off and benefits were very competitive as well. The work environment was good and the people were awesome. I actually enjoyed coming to work.

Cons

Major organizational problems. It seemed like nothing ever worked the way it was supposed to. Very unstable, the company would hire on hundreds one year and lay off hundreds the next. I felt like they were always following industry trends instead of starting new ones.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

The Employees and Culture is what makes SonyEricsson a great place to work. The lifestyle is great the low cost of living in NC is always a plus.

Cons

Promotions are pretty much lateral moves, it's difficult to make any move upwards. SonyEricsson Sweden basically makes all the decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Customer Focus should be #1 priority

Pros

Pleasent environment, nice people and very committed. Dynamic industry with lots of opportunity. Company has made some exciting products which have been top sellers.

Cons

Not sure about long term commitment to RTP site. Sony Ericsson is a Swedish and Japanese company with the focus in Sweden and Japan. Company needs to be more agile to keep ahead of the market changes, not sure if internal processes are up to this. Clearly senior management have been a sleep at the wheel for the past two years

Advice to Senior Management

Take control of the business, centralize and be more agile

Pros

The work environment is relaxed, the people are nice, and the locality is great. SE is a global company, however the RTP branch is less than 1000 employees. Pay is competitive and benefits are good. Managers encourage open dialogue, have an "open-door" policy.

Cons

Job security. SEMC is fighting for market share in the United States, and if there are losses reported for several quarters in a row, drastic personnel measures will be taken. In our department (Software), we went though 4 re-orgs in the past year. It seems like they still haven't figured out what's the best way to improve process.

Advice to Senior Management

Manage resources better to cut costs

Pros

Great place to start your career in the cense that there is opportunity to growth and since it's a global company it's a great place to travel and discover new places around the world. Like every communication company there are some pros and cons. The pros in this case are; brand recognition and the quality of the product being produced, great environment to work in since the average age is below 35 years old, great perks and benefits to employees within certain areas or regions, and finally door open policy with upper management which is always great to express concerns or issues.

Cons

Unfairness between departments and employees. Favoritism to certain employees is present. Lack of recognition between departments and team work is totally lost. As I mentioned before there are some pro and cons, but in this case I will mention only the cons; extremely salary gaps between employees within each departments, unfavorable conditions to minimize excessive expenditures, lack of processes to reduced cost or pretty much any thing, lack of head count to support overall company growth and quality as well, and finally like every company there is bureaucracy within Sony Ericsson and changes are needed to prosper as a whole.

Advice to Senior Management

Look within roles and unnecessary expending