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Working at Nortel in Richardson, TX: 34 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Richardson, TX Area

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Working at Nortel in Richardson, TX: 34 Employee Reviews

Software Test Engineer

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Great Place"

Senior Technician

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Management trust employee. Employee trust management. Management is not very strict with employee."

Senior Manager

"Nortel is in bankruptcy procedings and will no longer exist in a few months"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The people, the technology"

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

"Do not"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The inept and corrupt upper management"

Senior Member of Scientific Staff

"About average"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Good benefit and pension plan"

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

"Better to know insider"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Management team"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more benefit to Engineer instead of Management team"

Systems Administrator

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"I liked everything about working at Nortel when it was a thriving company. Benefits, retirement, bonuses, salary and my coworkers were all great assests when working at Nortel."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The fact the we are now in bankruptcy and the job will end soon."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have always had excellent managers."

Verification and Design Engineer

"honest"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The people"

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

"Nortel will only exist for a few more months. They are attempting to sell all parts of the company."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Inability of the executives to find success with a company that delivers quality."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Employees lost trust in all VPs and above."

Senior Technical Writer

"I was at Nortel for 9 years total, as a Project Manager, a Senior Instructor, and a Senior Technical Writer"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"I loved being able to travel and work with the customers I loved the products and the technology."

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

"Be careful about NorTel because they are not doing well financially and are being split up to be sold. It could possibly not be a long term employer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Honesty and fair treatment of the employees and customers goes a long way."

Software Developer

"Great company."

Director of MIS

"Good place to work."

Senior Software Engineer

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Working environment, people that I worked with, projects that I worked on. Opportunities to learn new technologies."

Senior Engineer

"These assessments were based on my 25yr career there."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Professional, opportunity, educational and personal growth."

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

"Too late."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Senior management had tunnel vision, hence the bankruptcy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would have pursued partnering/merging with another equipment maker like Hauwei, Ericsson, Alcatel or Lucent."

Equipment Services Project Manager

"Excellent job and excellent people."

RF Field Engineer

"Extensive traveling."

Software Engineer

"Good company."

Senior Sales Engineer

"Was a good company"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Challenging"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Poor executive managment"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Executive management should listen to suggestions from employees"

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