Bureaucratic Mess - Software Developer Ericsson Employee Review

2.0
Jan 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salaries and benefits are fairly average. The hours were flexible and the teams are fairly small. The challenges can be decent depending on your projects. There are a few things technical and organisational to learn from working there.

Cons

In my organisation, the teams kept changing every few weeks. There was always a dull period where no work would be executed before a huge rush to deliver for a deadline. There was a lot of lazy people and management is completely out of touch with the customers and their bottom line. They're so out of touch, they had no idea who their best performers are. There was always a couple of idle teams with no work to accomplish, yet there was no incentive to learn or research on your own. All the senior developers were promoted to managerial positions and the product was lead by a handful of out of college kids. Any changes to improve the situation from bottom-up, or top-down is met with a lot of resistance from everywhere.

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5.0
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Pros

The company culture is great. Super flexible, remote work culture and tons of different areas or career paths to pivot into. International company with offices in 180 different countries. Loads of diversity.

Cons

Many teams can be international, so timezones will conflict a lot and make it much harder to work with people who are overseas as they are logging off as you are getting on. This also causes communication issues as sometimes there can be language barriers.

3.0
Mar 13, 2026
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Pros

-Technological superior to most other companies with use of AI and promising future tech/programs -benefits and pay are very competetive -room for professional growth and advancement if you know how to work in a corporate environment -resume development and professional advancement

Cons

-leadership ideology doesnt match the company/CEOs mission statement or belief (company is said to be all for safety yet leaders get put in charge and quickly dismantle and lay off 3 quarters of the safety department) -Leadership changes structure to benefit themselves by having all support functions report to them instead of the CEO, this ensures all support functions take a back seat to production and financial gain to include their employees well being -Company restructured and reorganizes very often while showing no loyalty to the employees who work hard and want to stay, this leads to turn over of great employees.

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