UTStarcom Reviews

Pros

Good Tools, Good local team

Cons

Over extended themselves in early 2000's and had nothing but product line sales and layoffs since.

Team in US was not respected and software developed in US was taken to create competing products in China including overall framework and individual features with no corresponding return of features

Management switched from a highly respectable Hong Lu to been counters concerned only with the stock price and not with product integrity and company productivity

Rather than leveraging two teams working on the same types of products they let them run independently resulting in neither product being a success.

Advice to Senior Management

Your work is all in China now, might as well keep it that way.

Pros

Good pay, if a top VP likes you. There is no real management to talk about so you can be promoted quite fast. This company is for risk takers.

Cons

The senior management is like a circus. Politics at top level down is just unbelievable. There is no real communication within the company, so everything is through grapevine.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to completely re-do the culture. Get some real feedback form all levels in the company to guide you in this effort.

Pros

People were great
Excellent direct Manager
Staff was always willing to go beyond expectations

Cons

Unrealistic expectations of project timing
Poor or Non existent Marketing techniques employed

Pros

great place to work; collegues helpful;provde opportunities for the employees to realize the potential; reasonable benefits given to the employees

Cons

it is focussed on technologies that are very competitive; it spun off several divisions that were cutting edge recently now;

Advice to Senior Management

focus on good technologies and products; senior management should be more transparent with the employees; it has to get aggressiveness

Pros

Good location hard working lower management.

Cons

Chineese management. Lies and deception

Advice to Senior Management

Company will shutdown if continued this way.

Pros

they provide good salary, and competitive environment

Cons

company is in bad shape

Advice to Senior Management

please try to work on development of new products as per market requirements

Pros

easy going work style. few good technical guys to work with. relex culture.

Cons

Carrer growth is zero, company is in loss and only tryes to save money by cutting cost and employee pay. No plan for future. HR is invisible.

Advice to Senior Management

take care of your employee and focus on new technology.

Pros

Decent pay, normal hours for type of business
Nice building
Decent benifits
Some good technology

Cons

Total lack of competance of management. Just look at how they ran the company into the ground. Could not decide what type of business they truely wanted to be in.
Did not utilize their aquisitions. Paid a lot of money and then squandered them away.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your head out of the sand. Stop listining to people that only have a political agenda.

Pros

1. Regular Brainstorming sessions
2. No politics
3. Employee friendly
4. Accesible Management

Cons

1. average Salary
2. Hard hit by recession

Pros

Flexible working hours and convenient place

Cons

Low morale in the company

Advice to Senior Management

Company direction is not clear