Ericsson reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(17,748 total reviews)
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Börje Ekholm

77% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Ericsson has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 17,748 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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1.0
Sep 10, 2015
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Pros

No pros available that I can tell.

Cons

I was recently released from my contract with Ericsson with zero heads up from my managers. They moved the contracts offshore to Mexico and didn't let any of us know. I had to get a call from my recruiter letting me know that I didn't have a job anymore. None of my managers called me to explain the situation. I find this kind of behavior to be cowardly and disrespectful. If this is how they operate with people on contract I shudder to think how heartless this company must be with all of their employees. I'd stay far away from these folks.

2.0
Jun 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Flexible business hours - Good vacation schema - Pretty good employee performance management review mechanism - Pretty good low level mgmt

Cons

- If you are eager to learn, this is no place for you - Job is not challanging, after some time it becomes template - There are many, many people with less competence, but their pay is bigger because they have more years of experiance - A lot of people are not competent, neither they show interest in learning new stuff - If you show some "extra-mile effort" you'll get more work, for same salary - Employment process doesn't include any job relevant knowledge check, but rather irrelevant IQ and personality tests - Advance in terms of position is impossible if you aren't good with certain people, no matter how good you are - Salary grows based "on inertia" rather then on your results and knowledge - Lack of training and relevant development courses - Bad canteen

3.0
Apr 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility and Work-Life Balance, Helpful colleagues, there is not much politics, learning is encouraged and opportunities are readily available

Cons

Weak and uninspiring leadership, recent redundancies seem to have happened without a plan and has led to remaining employees being overworked, compensation is not great, management live in a bubble and seem to believe that low cost resource centres (India, China) have no competence issues despite contrary evidence, not much scope for vertical movement, escalation culture - need to escalate minor things to get any progress/ traction

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