Unwired Planet Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Unwired Planet

Pros – Flexible work conditions.
Good salary and benefits.

Cons – Lack of true leadership at various levels of management.
Internal communications within the company are not good.
Too many silos by product and region.
Too much many management levels.

Advice to Senior Management – Flatten the management structure.

Current Employee – been working at Unwired Planet

Pros – the salary and compensation
work flexiblity

Cons – too many to mention but good people are let go whilst useless middle mgmt keep seats warm

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Unwired Planet

Pros – small company, quick responses and small decision process.

Cons – Openwave is not a good on employee recognition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Unwired Planet

Pros – great place to work, i like it

Cons – too many people to know everyone

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Unwired Planet

Pros – - Smart people and good products
 - Good benefits
 - Nice office location with free gym facilities
 - Good customer base

Cons – - Lack of growth opportunities
- Lack of training
- Need focus on few products and better execution of product strategy

Advice to Senior Management – - Provide growth and training opportunities for employees
- Management needs stronger technical leadership
- Continue to innovate and focus on product quality

Current Employee – been working at Unwired Planet

Pros – Competitive salary, benefits package. Good onsite gym, outdoor pool. Cutting edge industry.

Cons – Not as much innovation (although some promising developments recently). Lofy ideas, with little execution. Too much executive churn in last 5 years.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Unwired Planet

Pros – Niche space, strong legacy, good work life balance, had options to work from home while meeting your goals

Cons – No real innovation,bad execution, inefficient R&D, no sense of direction/strategy from upper management

Advice to Senior Management – cannot outsource your core strengths and need to do a much better job at execution while hiring more capable business managers. If they screw up, then the company is bound to go downhill.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Unwired Planet

Pros – Good People & benefits, good technology

Cons – shrinking market size, no loyalty

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Unwired Planet

Pros – Huge opportunity to learn because you will be moving from one project to another in 3-4 months

Cons – Management team is not intelligent enough to set the direction of the company

Advice to Senior Management – Be focused and respect employee

Former Employee – worked at Unwired Planet

Pros – Some interesting work and challenges, good salary and benefits. Some good people.

Cons – very demanding customer base, employee burnout, long hours, company shrinking, long history of upper level management churn, though more stable last couple of years. Large amount of engineering outsourced; problematic. IMHO will continue to struggle and decline. Very little employee training or general education other than product-specific.

Advice to Senior Management – yadayada