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Cradlepoint

Acquired by Ericsson

Is this your company?

My God, I have never seen such a terrible company in 35 years - Director Cradlepoint Employee Review

1.0
10 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

There are literally no pros to working there. You have so many options that the abuse is simply not worth the pain. There are no rewards. Read on...

Cons

This was beyond a horrific experience. The culture is bred and was founded in 2006 based toxicity. The CEO and staff have gone out of their way to do nothing about it. The C-Suite is weak, complicit and corrupt. The C-suite only hire their top level friends and cronies. In particular look at the CPO and the chain down engineering. It's incestuous. The engineering staff simply lack talent. There is no invention there, They have poor pay and some of the worst benefits in Idaho - and that's not saying much. It's Idaho! The engineering is terrible. There is no invention. You think it's a technology company embracing 5G - and it's not. The hardware is off the shelf commodity hardware. Most of the engineers simply push config files to the cloud. You probably can lay off roughly 50% of them -and no one would notice.. The cloud SaaS front end will most likely move to India - by design. They take advantage of people simply because they are based in Boise. The workplace is hostile, opinionated, and coercive. Projects and company direction is shoot from the hip without an overall strategy. They circle around company strategies over and over again without direction or vision. Finally it’s a fantastic place to get an experience of how a poorly managed and desperate company operates as you move on in your career. You will use your experience here as testament of how to never run a company. I can't believe Ericsson paid what they did. But again, they are great at marketing. You would think this is disgruntled former employee talking here.. It's not, It's someone who has seen the best and worst of organizations over 40 years. Cradlepoint is by far the worst.

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5.0
2 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Best team I've ever worked with. Great "family" environment.

Cons

Became a big company, Being swallowed by a mega corp

4.0
22 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people and management. Hard working team. Very flexible with work life balance. One of the best products in their market. Good partnerships.

Cons

The commission plan is slowly getting worse every year. (Renewals don't pay out at 100% anymore, very difficult to hit quota, multiplier reduction at lower levels) are some examples. This could be different in 2024 but in previous years the quotas were almost impossible to hit in most territories (as a growth company they had to set them high) I don't know the exact number but I would guess around 15-20% of ISR's consistently hit quota. The base pay is average at best (Wages in Idaho are lower than the National average. Compared to traditional sales motions, you don't have much control on building pipeline. There's little things you can do but most of your destiny depends on which install base accounts you have and the partners in your region that are finding business.

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