Telcordia Reviews

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

Pros – Work with great, talented people. Diversity among work opportunity across software, IT, business operations consulting, systems integration, operations support systems, business support systems, telecom business & operations processes.

Cons – Year over year decline in top line w/ limited strategic direction for growth. negative and continuously declining morale due to annual layoffs, limited opportunities for career advancement, and limited investment in new, growth areas

Advice to Senior Management – balance short term tactical business performance with long term strategic direction, organizational re-structuring to provide mix of "old blood" and "new blood" to leverage expertise and heritage along with evolution and advancements in technology, approach, organizational reinvigoration

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

Former Employee – worked at Telcordia as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Team structure are good, and manager handle teams very good
Some teams like mine was following Agile and i like it
Put you in training class if some new technology/method is started in team
Ready to use new/good technologies to improve products/implementation techniques
Appreciate good effort
No hard time line

Cons – Cant think of any Cons

Advice to Senior Management – Management is good so continue the good work

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

Former Employee – worked at Telcordia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good Compensation. Benefits were good, and some of the management cares. They seemed to have a lot of family days, and a cafeteria is onsite.

Cons – Constant turmoil, more than 1/3 of the company had been there for 30 years or longer. Didn't want to change - living the old Bellcore mentality. Some very bright people, but no leadership or accountability. I told one of my employees that we were laying off in our department (we did have to cut back in our group and he was a sub-par performer), he immediately found a position in another group not facing cuts- people are constantly hanging around in the company regardless of performance.

Advice to Senior Management – Resign. You squabble publicly amongst employees and have no vision- Ericsson will have a challenge getting you aligned.

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

Former Employee – worked at Telcordia full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good working environment. Close to Goddard school. Nice building and Cafeteria and individual office rooms and no cubicles. flexible working hours typically (11AM - 2PM).

Cons – Very close to high traffic highways. Located opposite a cemetery.

Advice to Senior Management – No advice

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

Current Employee – been working at Telcordia

Pros – Technical folks and support folks are top notch. Lot's of depth and experience.
Strong customer oriented culture
High quality focus
Great pay when I started

Cons – Very limited in software orientation - legacy systems, landline
Very slow to embrace wireless
Technical folks need to do sales - not sure what the sales team really does
Company is 1/3 of former size, so advancement is nil
Average age of employees is rather old
Very finance oriented

Advice to Senior Management – Be a bit more agressive in looking at new opportunities. Take a longer view. Focus more on technical and delivery, not just financials.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Telcordia

Pros – Knowledge, Opportunity, Open Communication, Strong Management

Cons – No slacking allowed. Constant review and demand for excellence.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Telcordia

Pros – learn from Telcordia's expertise, good salaries, some interesting projects to work on, flexible on life issues, supports telecommuting, good human quality

Cons – so so benefits, not much opportunities for career advancement, may be difficult to make a career move or change, there is not much faith on new talent, very difficult to bring new ideas to the table

Advice to Senior Management – instill more innovation, foster career moves and challenges, allow younger talent to develop, introduce better benefit packages

Current Employee – been working at Telcordia

Pros – Telcordia has a smart bunch of people working there. My Coworkers are very kind.

Cons – Management doesn't REALLY know what's going on. They don't take the time to find out. There are too many meetings. People should spend more time doing the work. Meetings do not end with action items and follow-ups... they are non-productive.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward people for the work they do or they will leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Telcordia

Pros – The work is challenging and the people are great to work with. There is close cooperation within groups and between groups in the same business unit.

Cons – The company has pared back the number of employees to bare bones minimum over the recession years. There are not enough people to do the job and everyone works long hours

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time with senior managers in our customer companies to built relationships and bring in more business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Telcordia

Pros – Great people to work with, interesting assignments and the ability to move to new projects and assignments and a generally supportive work environment with decent, but not great benefits.

Cons – Senior management was constantly changing and the direction of the company was changing along with the slump in tradition telecom and the always uncertain future and constant staff downsizing.

Advice to Senior Management – None.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend