Ericsson reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(17,756 total reviews)
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Börje Ekholm

78% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Ericsson has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 17,756 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 Télécommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Jul 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to grow, many areas or places to work. Excellent benefit overall, many learning opportunity if diligent.

Cons

Salary increase is very small. Too many management levels and less people to do the actual work. Off shoring many workforce to India and other cheaper countries,

3.0
Jun 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great Benefits with 7% 401k, full medical paid with no out of pocket expense to employee. Stock matching and excellent paid time off including one week of kin care.

Cons

Always looking to cut costs by outsourcing overseas or layoffs. Quit stepping over dollars to pick up pennies. I have seen lost efficiency due to communication difficulties.

1.0
Jun 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary Brand Association in your CV

Cons

(Applicable only for Ericsson India - CSI ADM) 1. You don't have a technical manager, though they claim themselves to be one such, but basically, they are Resource Managers. 2. India operates in a Staff Augmentation mode, so, only Resource Managers would be there. 3. No managed services project. Prepared to do what is instructed by your Region and in the most cases, there wont be any process followed. 4. Most of the cases, code reviews, brainstorming, design discussions will not happen. 5. Not a single label, where CSI ADM can boast of, is existing. (Eg. Bharti account for IBM India) 6. No body bothers about your career because most of the managers have joined through referrals and they focus on achieving their KPIs like billability, competency mgmt. etc... 7. Your annual appraisals are done by the Resource Managers, who maynot even be knowing what your technology is, and the complexities involved in your project. For them, every project is equal, be it a PoC or a Transformation Project and whether it is successful or if it is a failure...

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