Ericsson reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(17,729 total reviews)
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Börje Ekholm

77% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Ericsson has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 17,729 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ericsson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telekommunikation industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Dec 26, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great if you have children and/or want to work from 9 to 5. No stress (except during layoffs). Well paid. Work is not measured, you can pretty much do nothing.

Cons

Most of the products and/or technologies (except maybe for Radio Based Station) is outdated and/or irrelevant. Process oriented culture: The amount of processes in some units is so dense that one does not need to think, and prevents any sort of changes. In short, the company is incapable of adapting to new paradigms like Agile, or Cloud, or devops. Meetings, meetings and more meetings to plan another meeting. Everyone is a resource. As long as you are a X then you are paid Y and do Z. Being good or bad is more or less irrelevant as most get the same pay raise. No real management of people. HR has a strategy to "start hiring smart people" in 2015 -> yes, it is that bad. Most competent people have left, the few remaining are leaving as they just cant do any work. HR is completely oblivious to what is happening inside the company, all metrics and kpis are set to measure the desired values. Cost efficiency is about reducing costs by moving jobs to India because it is hourly cheap to do so.

2.0
Dec 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Very Good if you joined as Experienced professional and are already getting 7 lpa + 2) Less work and more enjoyment 3) Increments are not very Good but you may get Good Increment and also, etention bonus if you know How to lick managers socks 4) Heaven , if you are a Manager. Since this Company provides support to Regional Ericsson , Generally, Engineers work on Pre-defined procedures and you will have negligible Escalations ...

Cons

1) It is TELECOM :o 2) When you join, you may be allotted anything as it is not based on your Academics, Talent or Engineering Subjects. 3) Most of the work here is in Excel only. 4) Not very Good promotions 5) No Market value . The Projects that you work on has no market value. So, you just cannot switch to get higher package. 6) 0 Technical knowledge. 7) Generally, You work under a bunch of stupids. Most of your seniors would be from Vendors of Vendors, who have negative knowledge. That is they have experience of 4-5 years but doesnot even know what TMA is used for :o 8) You work offshore and have very less opportunities of getting onshore trips . 9) EGI works on cost cutting . OBTs, stationary, Diwali Bonus , Mobile Bills, and more things have been discontinued or reduced so that the Higher management can show Profits. What a shame ? This is what happens, If you hire non MBA managers. There is a long list. ---->Only join if you are getting 7-9 pla + packages. Since life is calm , if you dont need money.

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