Lowest salaries, excessive unpaid work, sweatshop layout
Pros
Co-workers are nice, but most frustrated and looking to leave so the moral isn't good. Ericsson
Cons
- lowest salary (also does not negotiate/budge on lowball offers. ie. take it or leave it attitude). - No benefits. Other companies pay health (US), free drinks, free food, pension contributions, given RSUs/stock. Ericsson has none of that! - Ericsson advertises "free parking" as a perk because they don't have any perks. (parking is free everywhere around Ericsson Ottawa so it's not a perk). - Lots of unpaid work after hours & weekends. Don't expect appreciation or compensation. They just don't care. - Agile meetings daily to micro-manage you. - Terrible HR. Ericsson HR is your enemy and only there to force you to take their lowball offer and - Ericsson HR in Texas makes changes/decisions to Ericsson elsewhere (Ottawa for example) like turning Ottawa into a sweatshop layout and dynamic seating. Turns out HR doesn't have a clue how engineering work (go figure) and now people are constantly sick due to the sweatshop layout which seats 6 people 2 feet from each other with no divisions. Noise is a problem. People wear headphones and earplugs to drown out the noise. Dynamic seating was abandoned. HR still won't admit they screwed up big time. - People leave. Company is bleeding. - Huawei has surpassed Ericsson and Ericsson is on track for bankruptcy. - Virtual teams means you are 50% in one team under one virtual manager and 70% under manager. 50%+70% adds up to more than 100%. Smart aren't they!! - Some workers are getting away with doing nothing. A kid in my team came in a 11am and left a 2-3pm each day. Others commit a line of code once every couple of weeks, but they first submit garbage work and the reviewers have to tell them out to fix it so that it doesn't crash the products. So essentially they contribute nothing. - Directors are pretty useless. - Excessive meetings (Some people like this because they use meetings as excuses to never do any work). - Ericsson as most companies in the Kanata Tech park only exist due to cheap obedient foreign labor. - Ericsson and other Kanata tech park companies produce more dual citizenships than actual product. (ie. Citizenship Manufacturing is the primary product). - Canada needs to cut back on immigration. - Canada needs to cut back on mass graduation. At this time there are not enough blue collar workers as witnessed by the rise of blue collar workers salaries well above normal and the stagnation of Engineering salaries (decline if inflation is factored in).
