Mitel Networks Employee Reviews about "layoff"

Pros

There are some really great folks there

Cons

The CEO and her jacked up executive team are completely clueless. They consistently blame and take zero responsibility. Layoffs to save $ and push more work on the lower levels with empty promises. There are many snakes in HR... PG is the biggest of them all. Beware...

Pros

Good benefits, good people mainly from Inter-tel years. Network Division was superb and had great leadership.

Cons

Always waiting for the next round of layoffs

Pros

Awesome team. Learned quite a lot from everyone. Team was very friendly. Lots of learning opportunities. Great benefits.

Cons

Needs better management. Not stable. Project got cancelled and led to lots of layoffs

Pros

Good people, excellent benefits, relaxed atmosphere, good pay

Cons

Certain implementation positions and their managers as well as sales are put under a lot of pressure for revenue especially at end of quarter. Mitel has had several layoffs recently where even people with decades of seniority are let go. With the aquisition of Shoretel, there will be no doubt more coming.

Pros

I was on a team that worked on Next Generation products, so the work was interesting.

Cons

The CEO made it very clear that he didn't care whether employees were happy or wanted to stay at the company. Layoffs and re-orgs happened constantly so there was never any stability. Many incompetent people and stupid roadmaps meant nothing was ever released. Often a product as discontinued only weeks before planned release dates, meaning that more than a year's with of work would get thrown away. Technical decisions were made based on which manager was the most aggressive/rude in meetings, and therefore 'won the fight'.

Pros

benefits were good-comp plan was a moving target and would change mid plan-back office support lacking and implementations were a struggle

Cons

Shortel merger left many overlapped positions that seemed to end up with the reps from Shoretel- when layoffs were announced many seasoned vets took the hit

Pros

Employees and co-workers are great to work with.

Cons

Upper management has no real regard for it's employees. Layoffs happen annually and sometimes more frequent than that.

Pros

Parking is free. On-site out of date gym.

Cons

The morale is still horrible. Lost lots of superstars and continuing to lose great employees. Favoritism occurring in the company. No career advancement for younger generation. No salary increase over three years and stolen work credit. Constant layoffs and demotions. Managers not helping employees for career advancement (unless if you are the favourite one). And lots of backstabbing. I need to stay here over ten years to get an extra week of vacation (currently have three). My benefits actually went down in the last two years . Technology is out of date. No innovation is occurring at this point and pretty much copying what other competitors are doing. Most of the work is being shipped to India and the quality we are getting back is poor. Internal tools are horrible. They are out of date and confusing to use. After so many years, we finally got Google tools last year. Found out recently that we are going to lose it. Several employees have been telling me that Mitel is investing to make the internal tools better. After 4 years, I haven't seen not one bit of improvement. I would not recommend for anyone, especially for the young. You have a better chance to work in a start-up company.

Pros

Many long term employees with history and knowledge

Cons

Rough couple of years ended in Layoffs and reorg

Pros

Good company, fair pay, flexible and remote working opportunities, great colleagues

Cons

PERPETUAL CHANGE! constant M&As, new staff emerging almost monthly from acquisitions, genuine fear of layoffs (3 x each year), each time you felt you had another stay of execution. No pay rises, so when you negotiate your initial contract, you had better strike the best possible deal because it won't be changing. Resources extremely stretched and overworked due to constant layoffs.