Telcordia Reviews

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.

Pros

Working within Telcordia's consulting business unit offers good opportunity to learn rather quickly through participation in different consulting engagements. It also offers an opportunity to see new countries and experience different cultures.

Cons

The travel can be demanding and whenever traveling one tends to put in substantially more than 40 hours per week.

Pros

A great branding company, but that's most of it

Cons

C level management short minded causing big expenses, HR just a very good listener and executor

Advice to Senior Management

Learn about life-work balance!

Pros

This company has many talented individuals that have extended knowledge of network technologies and telecommunicaitons. Software Support for companies like Verizon, ATT and CenturyLink are unmatched in terms of on time delivery, and met requirements.

Cons

Companies are pushing back hard on Telcordia's high cost. Unfortunately quality drives high costs and today's executives dont look down the road to savings received by quality releases with met requirements.

Pros

Knowledge, Opportunity, Open Communication, Strong Management

Cons

No slacking allowed. Constant review and demand for excellence.

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

Pros

Flexible schedule, good people, great R&D programs.

Cons

Management is clueless abt growth in new areas.

Pros

Subject matter experts abundance. Legitimacy in telecom.

Cons

Lack of R&D, portfolio freshness, antiquated internal employee systems (circa 1900's), internal view rather than market view, extremely slow to respond to customer needs, short vision. High costs for internal processes, and high costs for customer engagements.

Advice to Senior Management

Fix the cons.

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.

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.