ADB Reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)

Andrew Rybicki

27% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

ADB has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ADB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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71 reviews
2.0
3 Jul 2014

A lot of good badly managed people.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not too bureaucratic, a lot of smart people (even after quite a few left for the greener pastures), good salary for Polish conditions, new CEO seems reasonable and does try to improve some of the problems.

Cons

Lots of politics and "us vs them" attitude between groups and offices including actively blocking other groups' work, huge amounts of time and resources wasted for rewriting software from scratch over and over again, no career path (only two distinguishable levels in engineering - engineer and expert, with no clear promotion criteria), widespread "yes sir!" culture with no respect for subordinates' opinion or private life, overtime is expected from employees ("you can't write good software in 8 hours"), a few morale-wrecking actions like quite massive lay-offs followed by "we're hiring" a month later, employees have to use pretty old and underpowered PCs and TVs, permanent cost reduction phase which makes buying even cheap tools nearly impossible.

4.0
4 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great team of engineers who enjoy what they do and do it well.

Cons

As I left there was a conflict in strategy as how to transition from a largely hardware focussed approach to a more software driven organisation. A tough situation that many companies have had to endure but seems to be making progress.

4.0
17 Aug 2017

Turning itself around

Recommend
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Pros

Going private and new focus on software & services seems to start bearing fruit. The company definitely looks better now than it did a few years ago.

Cons

Still a big question mark if The Big Turn can be accomplished.

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