Motorola Mobility Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Motorola Mobility full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good salary and benefits package. Nice friendly colleagues. Good flexibility.

Cons – Seemingly constant changes, to the point that change was the only constant. Lots of redundancies in recent years, which although necessary still difficult foe everyone.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – opportunities to work with many different people and get involved on different projects. Internal movement and retraining encouraged.

Cons – like other tech companies, they look for the lowest cost centres so it's no unheard of to see whole departments and job functions be moved overseas to outsource companies, whether or not it achieves the same level of results as keeping it internal.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Motorola Mobility full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good team spirit, great working conditions

Cons – sometimes concentrates on technical excellence rather that business requirements

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

Current Employee – been working at Motorola Mobility

Pros – Great employment package
- competitive salary
- good health plan
- pensions plan was good, but goverment have screwed this for everyone, now it's average
- if you are flexible then you can do well in Moto

Cons – Has suffered from weak CEO leadership in recent years
Did not maximise on some great opportunities
Lost a lot of money not seeing ventures through to revenue

Advice to Senior Management – Stand by decisions and ensure all business activity has clear line of sight to revenue

Former Employee – worked at Motorola Mobility

Pros – The main Motorola business provided much training and opportunity for career development.
Chance to work with other, less broken, divisions.

Cons – Bad and cliquey management,
No opportunity for advancement in product group.
Management more concerned with own careers than their reports.
Byzantine and overly complex internal systems.

Advice to Senior Management – Needs to enforce some of Tom Peters' ideas.
Management as stewardship.
Needs to be an internal tribunal for complaints against bad managers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Motorola Mobility

Pros – Technology and the global reach of the company

Cons – Bureaucratically and the politically charged work conditions

Advice to Senior Management – work smarter and in a simple way without politics

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Motorola Mobility

Pros – Good engineering variety and well respected in the engineering community. Good rewards and very competitive package overall with excellent conditions and surroundings.

Cons – The industry is very cyclical and the whole work force depend on the r&d and npi teams doing a good job, which doesn't always happen.

Advice to Senior Management – They tended to adopt a dictatorial approach to mgmt and they were top heavy with managers. Having production managers then lead engineering teams was a very bad move.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Motorola Mobility

Pros – Good structure in place
Some great employees
Tries hard to make it a good company to work for

Cons – There is a culture of fear - nobody wants to make a decision in fear of being repremanded if it turned out to be a wrong decision. Thus decision making is stiffled & pushed up to people who shouldn't be making such decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – carry on with the reforms

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Motorola Mobility

Pros – Brand name is good for CV. The office is quite good, although is not that comfortable.
Some people are good although it's a minority there.

Cons – There are too many things to mention.
People there were waiting for the redundancy for 3 years.
Imagine how it's like to work in such an environment. People don't want to actually do anything.
The only activity I saw was struggling to find somebody to blame on and trying to avoid doing the work by yourself.
I couldn't wait to exit this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Resign and close a company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Motorola Mobility

Pros – used to be a great engineering company.. very good engineering culture
but it seems that a little bit of sole searching is needed to save its reputation/brand recognition. hope there will be some changes in the coporation culture when the company is seperated

Cons – it seems innovation (espetially long term research/innovation) does not attract enough attention as before. Short term profit is important but long-term R&D is where the hope is.

Advice to Senior Management – learn to adapt to the changing world, before it is too late!!