Ericsson reviews

• Excessively long and disingenuous interview processes: Seven months of interviews only to later be laid off despite years of top performance. Strong performers with higher compensation are quietly viewed as expendable • Performative talent development programs: Programs marketed to younger talent lack real sponsorship, mobility, or outcomes. Most participants leave within a few years due to stalled careers • Severely limited internal mobility: Advancement typically requires being “tapped on the shoulder,” aligning with the right personalities, or being a consistent yes-person — merit alone is insufficient • Seasoned employees quietly pushed out: Experienced staff are nudged toward retirement or exited under the guise of restructuring, eroding institutional knowledge • Leadership instability: Senior executives have been repeatedly removed or reshuffled, resulting in constant musical chairs and a lack of long-term strategy or accountability • DEI commitments abandoned when inconvenient: A clear 2022–2023 OKR to increase women in leadership disappeared during layoffs, disproportionately impacting those same groups • Burnout normalized: Teams are stretched thin and expected to absorb the cyclical volatility of the telecom business with little concern for sustainability • Passive corporate culture: Employees are expected to be endlessly polite and professional, while difficult conversations are avoided and real issues go unaddressed • Heavy reliance on outsourcing: Growing dependence on external resources undermines quality, continuity, and morale • Erosion of core values: The Swedish cultural principles that once differentiated Ericsson are largely absent in U.S. offices • Hypocrisy around return-to-office mandates: U.S. employees are pushed toward consolidation (e.g., Plano), while many leaders themselves work remotely from non-hub locations

The culture at Cradlepoint was toxic and dishonest. I was impacted by a restructure and my role and the rest of the admins on my teams roles were eliminated claiming they would outsource. Not long after that, they started hiring again for the same types of positions, but only for candidates within a certain radius of the corporate office. It was clear their intention all along was to cut remote employees under the guise of “restructuring.” The way it was handled was shady, misleading, and showed a complete lack of loyalty to employees. To make matters worse, the VP of Enterprise Applications who delivered the layoff news was cold and completely unsympathetic. I understand it’s not an easy conversation to have, but a little empathy would have gone a long way. Their actions and tone said everything about how little they value people.