Ericsson reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(17,731 total reviews)
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Börje Ekholm

78% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Ericsson has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 17,731 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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3.0
Jun 18, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

When you are there they have decent benefits. (Or used to) Decent work life balance - at least in the groups I was in. Being South Asian is a big plus to working there. The new CEO seems to be turning things around, but E will never be the 800 lb gorilla again.

Cons

From the time I started in 2012 - it was a continual stream of downsizing in North America. Loss loss loss. Ericsson lost it's market leadership due to hubris and bad decisions. The morale was extremely low when I left. Stay a year or two then start looking for another job before they cut you. Don't get complacent.

1.0
Apr 20, 2018

This company is sinking...

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Pros

If you are sweds and and friends of sweds You will be in the top! So time to change ! Here is more gender parity than equality, incompetent managers were put on driving the business in difficult days!

Cons

So many layers, so many VPs, so many directors. There is “Ericsson way of working” which is responsible for the poor performance. They rotate the same leaders every 2 years even you have failed in delivering commitments. Innovation and new ideas are not promoted at all!

1.0
Jan 31, 2018

A place to avoid

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice office space Friendly atmosphere

Cons

Incompetent, technologically illiterate management. A culture of avoiding responsibility. Outdated tech stack. Complete lack of interest in career planning & career development of employees - people are reshuffled between unrelated roles at will regardless of their current skillset, interests and wishes - you could be a manager one day, and a developer the next with little to no say in the matter. Lack of transparency in career progression & pay. Meaningless yearly performance review process - irrelevant copy/pasted goals; scores that don't line up with the actual written feedback; scores have minimal impact on compensation. Lack of communication with management - some employees only get 1 or 2 chances for a face-to-face session with their direct manager a year. Excessive amount of red tape - over-reliance on meetings without clear goals and purpose; everything is a word document or a powerpoint presentation (often both); every team is a Scrum team, regardless of how well it fits. Low standard of internal developer documentation - work with internal tools and libraries is an exercise in frustration. Siloing - teams, departments and offices are very isolated from each other. High employee turnover.

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