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Huawei Technologies reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(12,230 total reviews)
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Ren Zhengfei

72% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Huawei Technologies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 12,230 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Huawei Technologies 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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12K reviews
1.0
Nov 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Canteen serves Chinese food. Local staff good to work with.

Cons

If you aren't Chinese then you will not be included in any email chains. In most cases you will not be replied to at all when asking for information or help. Many emails are not translated into English. If they are, the translation is bad and not understandable. Management like to blame and humiliate local employees in meetings - even issues out of your direct control Senior Chinese management encourage other Chinese workers to challenge experienced local employees on everything - even extremely trivial matters Approval chains are ridiculously long. Prepare to chase others and be chased (i.e threatened with escalation to your direct manager) yourself. Senior Chinese management do not value independent thinking. Recommendations are always ignored. Local employees have no power to make any decisions whatsoever. Inexperienced expatriates often telling experienced local staff how to do things.

1.0
Jan 11, 2017

Anything But An Equal Opportunity Employer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Biggest brand in the market Pay is good, way above average Locations tend to be very good worldwide Attracted a lot of Cisco's previous employees due to their recent lay off, so some smart people there

Cons

Let's start with a previous review stating that Huawei is an equal opportunity employer. Whoever wrote that probably is now struggling to hire talents for the company so he/she had to say nice things about this company... All recruitment plans are controlled by the HQ in China, and they are the most racist, sexist, and ageist I've ever encountered in my career. Denying any application of colored people has been their usual practice even in London and Santa Clara. There are some Indians working here in Santa Clara, but they are trying very hard to hire as few as possible going forward. Local Chinese who work in HQ are very good at playing a game called: 'ohhh I'm so busy this job is killing me but first, let me take a 2 hour nap after lunch. ' If you want to know the full picture of what locals they tend to hire, go to Quora. Sadly, they're also the ones more valued by the company. If you're younger than 40, and still aspired to make a career for yourself, do not join this company. If you're older than 40, providing for a family of 4-5, income matters a lot and you don't mind office politics in a Chinese company, and good at being a 'yes-man', then might as well. After all, the pay is alright. Although be aware, they also can find any reason to fire you in a blink of an eye.

1.0
Apr 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

breadth of products and markets and a large workforce

Cons

inexperienced, unimaginative, hierarchical, cheap, exploitative... I've worked within large corporations before and know that experiences may vary widely from department to department and location to location. My comments are with regards to the office in Ottawa/Kanata

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