Ericsson-Worldwide Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great work environment, great people to work with.

Cons – It would be better if they were located closer to London.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Values that you can still see in the company, Swedish culture

Cons – Top managment driven by quarterly results and personal benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Change it, at least in Western Europe

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Ericsson is very good to its people, as far as large companies go. They are flexible and it's quite easy to move within the company, often to different countries if one wants to. They are supportive in times of personal trouble, allowing flexible working, good support and so forth. This may be an artifact of their Swedish roots, but they are very good at treating their employees well.

Cons – The salaries tend to be a little on the low side for the industry. In addition, Ericsson is very process-driven. Simple things can sometimes be slow and painstaking. The process is important to ensure consistency, but can be sclerotic at times.

Advice to Senior Management – Work to allow individual inventiveness and empowerment. Understand that process should streamline operations, but still allow for flexibility and innovation. When performing tasks, it should not be about satisfying the process; rather, the process should streamline and enable what needs to be done at all times.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Nice team to work with and really nice people that tried their best in the face of constant unstructured change

Cons – Incompetent Management injecting constant chaos,! poor leadership and no long term vision - A culture of subtle bullying

Advice to Senior Management – Look at how you wrecked the Ericsson business -most have hopefully left by now!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great technology leadership with strong management at corporate level not reflected at divisional levels

Cons – Focus is too follow the revenue / profit as priority affecting growth
In my opinion strategy is too short term (almost Q by Q) with frequent reorganisation and changes in strategy at divisional level (for example 2015 targets set in 2010 are very different to those set in 2011 and 2012)

Advice to Senior Management – Your people are your strength and your future - support and motivate them and they will deliver

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Good place to start a career and gain loads of knowledge and experience in a specific role if willing to put aside the rivalry between different teams.
Great summer BBQ events..

Cons – Not very career development friendly, no encouragement for training/courses and no help provided from managers for your career development.
Treated as just another head count/a very small cog in the big Swedish machine.
There's no excitement in the air or inspiration from management.
The rivalry between some departments is rife, leading to info silos everywhere.
You work on projects that are assigned to you. It is not common that you can choose what you would like to work on.

Advice to Senior Management – Management need to be more visible, engaging and inspiring. To bring to life Ericsson's drive and passions a bit more.

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Large company with a worldwide network. Looks good on the CV. Opportunities to move around the company, and network with colleagues.

Cons – Can be cut-throat in business decisions, and will not hesitate to make you, and your department redundant without much thought. Always after the bottom line. And promotions seemed to be based on who the managers like, not who is right for the role.

Advice to Senior Management – There are actual humans at the end of their internal business decisions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Hard working people
Some opportunity to move jobs

Cons – Management do not follow core values but expect junior staff to, no leading by example
Too many managers moved into Special Projects rather than the competence issues being addressed
HR almost invisible if you want their help and incompetent when you do ask for it

Advice to Senior Management – Do not expect change from bottom up, change should be led from top down

Former Employee – worked at Ericsson-Worldwide

Pros – Global opportunities, global leaders in telecomms (until Huawei win)

Cons – Poor salaries, ageing workforce, male dominated, unless you are swedish you will never make it.

Advice to Senior Management – Need for product diversification, and take risk in other areas of business.

Current Employee – been working at Ericsson-Worldwide

Pros – Good work and personal life balance.

Cons – Poor career progression in technical track.
Poor internal job rotation

Advice to Senior Management – Improve career progression in technical track.Improve
internal job rotation