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www.jdsu.com Milpitas, CA 1000 to 5000 Employees
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Updated May 23, 2013
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2.8 114 reviews

                             

48% Approve of the CEO

JDSU President and CEO Thomas Waechter

Thomas Waechter

(63 ratings)

32% of employees recommend this company to a friend
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Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time for more than a year

ProsJDSU is a very open minded company, and flexible towards employees needs, it has also a good work life balance. The first level management is very knowledgeable and open minded as well. It is an engineering/technical company in the communication and optical arena, so technical knowledge is very appreciated

ConsThe company is very distributed among geographies and timezones, as a result sometimes it is difficult to find out who does what, it is in my opinion the problem of having a bit of a silos mentality

Advice to Senior ManagementI would advise them to improve interaction among the different part of the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Gurgaon, Haryana (India)

Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Prosflexibility and peace in doing job,

Conslack of exposure to new technologies, no work culture

Advice to Senior ManagementPlease provide more opportunities to employees for their growth within organization

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

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Current Employee – been working at JDSU

ProsFocused and balance sheet driven.

ConsHuman touch and interpersonal relations.

Advice to Senior ManagementInvest in employees for longer time durations to derive returns out of them.

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Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time

ProsJDSU is a very advanced and dynamic organisation which is constantly adapting. Having previously worked for a very strictly regimented organisation, JDSU has been a breath of fresh air. The people are friendly, helpful and extremly supportive and all show an extremely realistic attitude. I would recommend JDSU to anyone willing and able to adapt to change and evolve with the company.

ConsThe only downsde to JDSU is its lack of consistency of process across its regions due to global legislation, etc, as well as during constant change. As long as you are adaptable and open then its easy to work with.

Advice to Senior ManagementEnsure consistency on the ground and promote and retain employee motiviation during great change.

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

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Colorado Springs, CO (US)

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

ProsThey respect my opinions and efforts

ConsEmployees sometimes viewed as cogs in a wheel

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

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Germantown, MD (US)

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

ProsMotivated and responsible engineers exist and it is very nice to work with those folks rather than dealing with someone whose only focus is to get something done at all costs. Engineering designs should be done not in a hacked way, but rather while thinking of its long term consequences and affects on other sides of the bigger design, involving other projects (now and in the future)

ConsI don't believe there is effort coming from the senior and mid management to retain talented (and already trained for the work we do) in the company. Money as well as ranking changes I don't think are used properly to satisfy talented people. This in the long run will cripple the engineering part of the company, which will most likely affect the companies' ability to sustain its promised growth.

Advice to Senior ManagementPlease pay more attention to retain the talented engineers with the company. Those people are hard to keep as they tend to be smarter than the rest - They will leave the company after waiting a bit if they don't get what they believe they should: Promotion (aka give them more responsibility) and money. I don't believe these two tools are used properly and on-time to keep the talent in-house.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Singapore (Singapore)

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

ProsGreat place to learn about technologies

ConsManagement that does not understand the industry, more operation focused

Advice to Senior ManagementAppreciate and recognize the contribution of past loyal & dedicated employees

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

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

Prosstill alive, some product is great

Consmanagement is living on quarter-by-quarter, no vision at all

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

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Singapore (Singapore)

Former Employee – worked at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Prosless stressful, the biggest company in telecommunication test

Consthe telecommunication test is straining

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Germantown, MD (US)

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

ProsDecent Engineering company,
very regimented

ConsLack any employee concern
Major buisness model is outsorcing of any and all manufacturing and operations management

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

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