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Working at Ericsson in San Jose, CA: 21 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Jose, CA Area

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On average, employees in San Jose, CA at Ericsson give their company a 4.1 rating out of 5.0 based on 21, whereas overall Average Rating of Ericsson is 4.1 out of 5.0 based on 383 Ericsson Review Ratings. The happiest Ericsson employees in San Jose, CA are Senior Software Engineers submitting an average rating of 3.8 and Senior System Engineers with a rating of 5.0.

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4.1
Average Rating
(based on 285 Ericsson Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.0
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
3.9
Support You Get
4.0
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
4.1
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"Great company to work for. Ericsson has a culture that respects and supports your ambitions, in alignment with our values of Respect, Professionalism and Perseverance. Ericsson is focused on learning and development, supports mobility and flexible working hours."
Posted 4 years ago in Bellevue, WA

Working at Ericsson in San Jose, CA: 21 Employee Reviews

Ericsson Employee

"I started at Ericsson in 2017 as a contractor and moved up into an employee position as Mediakind was spun out. It was a large organization, but only a few levels of hierarchy. I enjoyed the environment, but as layoffs occurred it became less and less enjoyable."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Director

"It is an old company over 125 years old, an institution with some management beliefs that are slowing progress in the new market. The people are great and some want to change this direction but it is overwhelmed by the DNA."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

4.1
Ericsson (383)

4.5 Highest Rated in this Industry is Adtech (8)
2.2 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Blue Fountain Media (8)
3.8 Average of All Companies in this Industry (13,152)
Verification Engineering Intern

"I worked at Ericsson as an Intern. It was my first job ever and I loved it thoroughly. My Manager and Mentor both were awesome and helpful. Nice Team."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Ericsson Employee

"I am working as an intern in Ericsson as regression test engineer since Oct-2014 and I am developing skills in scripting as a part of my internship."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Ericsson Employee

"As an intern, Ericsson has provided me with excellent learning opportunities in accordance to my career interest and academic background."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Ericsson Employee

"It's a good old established company."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Network Engineer

"I've worked for Ericsson since July 2006, I've found Ericsson as a strong company and I gained a lot of experience."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Intern

"I am working in Ericsson from September 2013. I find the company is good."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Software Engineer

"Networking plays a big role."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior System Engineer

"Nice to work there."

What do you like about working at Ericsson?

"Nice to work in this company as it has some training, good compensation."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior ASIC Design Engineer

What do you like about working at Ericsson?

"Nice company to work. Nice people, nice culture, and nice team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a very nice company to work with. Nice team, strong technique."

What don't you like about working at Ericsson?

"Need more innovation. Hope the site manager can listen to the voice of engineers more about innovation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep doing what is right. But listen to employee's voice."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Business Development Representative

What do you like about working at Ericsson?

"It has provided me with the opportunity to travel the world and see many things. It offers many different challenges each day."

What don't you like about working at Ericsson?

"The company does offer some limitations when it comes to advancement and promotion."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It is essential that you set clear strategies and goals for the organization. These strategies and goals need to be communicated within the company."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Equipment Services Project Manager

What do you like about working at Ericsson?

"The people, environment, and the job is always very challenging."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"None, I think everyone is entitled to discover for themselves."

What don't you like about working at Ericsson?

"I do not have any negative comments about the company or my job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Probably not to micro manage, and concentrate more on the needs for improving themselves."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Test Engineering Manager

What do you like about working at Ericsson?

"Very globalized; strong on telecommunication; customer orientated; people caring, including talent plan, excellent internal academy for training."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be confident; good technical background on the area to apply; good team work."

What don't you like about working at Ericsson?

"Slow decision making for the new changes, that caused missing the opportunity."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Cost control including low cost R&D center, lab efficiency; product outsourcing; test process change."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Product Manager

"Management is really bad. Incompetent senior management."

What do you like about working at Ericsson?

"The vacation and general package was good, got to travel."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Review the position you are interviewing for before you attend."

What don't you like about working at Ericsson?

"Bad/abusive managers and dead wood seem to excel in the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make LTA at least 3 years, 2 years is not enough for people to make a real difference."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5

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