Nortel Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Nortel has gone through tremendous financial changes recently, the situation is very different now."

"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."

"Good company but apparently not viable"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Good income, interesting work"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Not viable for the long term"

"nice place, highly skilled people, good interesting work"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"good technical place"

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

"go for it! nice place to work"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"nothign- I liked it a lot"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"nothign- doing great- maybe listen to the lower level people a bit more for feedback"

"Wasted time as Nortel is now bankrupt."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Always working on different equipment and meeting new people"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The pressure that was applied in the later years."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Start treating people as people and not machines."

"MTX CDMA is very relibility and solid product."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Reliability"

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

"NORTEL Need better marketing"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"A Little over age"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need more traceability"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"This was a summer internship while in college and was a long time ago. I remember enjoying the corporate culture."

"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."

"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"

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."