Nortel Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Best place to work in Canada at the time."

"Helpful to new and get anger off of ex-employees chest"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"I was allowed to work as a telecommuter which which served best to my career and family.My focus is for my life is to take care of my personal growth moving forward with my career and taking care of my family."

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

"If you looking to retire at Nortel at right age you can't trust Nortel unless they bring back business and hire all who got laid off."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"I was very disappointed with the way top management handled all matters at Nortel for last 10 years as soon as they realized down trend of Nortel businesses. I wonder how board of directors/top management made so much money when company started with layoffs, loosing money in all businesses rather than making profit, announced bankruptcy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Suggestion to management is to manage and act as a head of the family not of yours but of company.If the structure and organization of the company to work hand in hand with management and employees to bring prosperity to the comapny then I am 200% sure people would have worked really hard and smartly to save company from bankruptcy."

"Great Contracts and contacts."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"It was on my career path."

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

"They like details of your projects."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"100% travel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop going bankrupt."

"Covered all point with a Business attitude that shows the strength of my background"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Flexiblity to run your area and business as if it was your own."

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

"Great place to be!"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"It is a two way sell, you need to sell to your outside customers as well as the direct Nortel sales arm to push product through your territory channel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Needs to be a cleaner way for this to work."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Chance for International and Global experiences."

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

"They are no longer in business."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Products driven by Marketing not Engineering and customer needs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They are now out of business. Top managewment should be jailed or fined for gross incompetance."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Diversify work environment, excellence treatment for excellence job, incentive rewards for extra mile"

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

"focus"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Politics overcome skills under economic pressure!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Effort to not fail is to unify the strengths than loose them. Reduce cost to save company could achieve by ownership of company in customer projects, employee in company stack purchasing instead of compensation, plus education of all in asset and waste management!"

"Chaos"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Freedom as field rep"

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

"Beware of a very disconnected Managment group"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Company was complete chaos"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep experienced personell ,listen to the field reps , provide REAL Training."

"Reasonable Job experience at Nortel Networks"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Very project oriented and structured in the way that there is less confusion."

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

"Try to focus on understand technical principles and methodologies"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Still could do better in terms of career development and advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more open forum for employee feedback in terms of product decisions and influence on how things are done."

"It's a good place if you need a job."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"My manager did encourage my career growth and seemed interested in my professional goals."

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

"Get the most money you can when you accept the job, you aren't getting a raise."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"They had to make A LOT of benefit cuts."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop cutting benefits. Make spot bonuses easier to achieve."

"Great company, unfortunately the economic situation won't let it hire new talent"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Location, environment, people."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Insecurity."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less micro management."

"Avoid since they declared chapter 11"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"the work from home initiatives, and working second shift wasn't too bad."

"Norhern Telecom was an ok place to work with had great benefit."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"My location was in San Diego, you cannot beat this."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Northern Telecom Business Changes can effect your long term employment so keep a close eye and ear to the ground."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Another good company to work with."

"Nortel was a great place to work until the company started the slide into Chaper 11 protection."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Working with great professionals"

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

"Get an understanding for both public and enterprise networks"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Lack to good business direction"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your customers"

"Excellent to work for"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"the employees got all tools required to do the job"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"nothing"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"higher education"

"Great place to work with the Periphonics Team, Nortel is horrid"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The learning curve and opportunites presented at the position I was in."

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

"Interview was extreme and intense, as it should be for a complex position."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Nortel is a horrid company to wkr for and didnt know how to manage their own business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Mangement was fine, Upper management beyond IVR tech services was a joke."