Ericsson reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(17,736 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 17,736 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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18K reviews
1.0
May 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None, actually. The new Top management team is looking just for juniors able to work 20 hrs a day with minimum wage

Cons

Lots of senior professionals leaving due to bad atmosphere created by top management (expats treating Romanian engineers as "white Indians" -real quote! )

2.0
Dec 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great if you have children and/or want to work from 9 to 5. No stress (except during layoffs). Well paid. Work is not measured, you can pretty much do nothing.

Cons

Most of the products and/or technologies (except maybe for Radio Based Station) is outdated and/or irrelevant. Process oriented culture: The amount of processes in some units is so dense that one does not need to think, and prevents any sort of changes. In short, the company is incapable of adapting to new paradigms like Agile, or Cloud, or devops. Meetings, meetings and more meetings to plan another meeting. Everyone is a resource. As long as you are a X then you are paid Y and do Z. Being good or bad is more or less irrelevant as most get the same pay raise. No real management of people. HR has a strategy to "start hiring smart people" in 2015 -> yes, it is that bad. Most competent people have left, the few remaining are leaving as they just cant do any work. HR is completely oblivious to what is happening inside the company, all metrics and kpis are set to measure the desired values. Cost efficiency is about reducing costs by moving jobs to India because it is hourly cheap to do so.

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