Nortel Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Nortel, a company that was a great place to hang and provided years of bliss."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Home based and some travel and strong support system among peers, plus they emphasized training for many years."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Travel at times exceeded 60% and became tiring."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Company is still struggling from past CEO mistakes. Very sad for employees who are still working. NORTEL continues to struggle when trying to make a successful company. They have a good product but things at the top of the organization are shakey these days."

"This review is not at beginning it for end of my career time."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"It was really great place to work at beginning, but past year company was keep going worst and worst. upper Management team need to be work on or need to be replace."

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

"If you like what you see at this time then it is great place to work at."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Job security is not safe at this time, but could be better if company's financier situation gets better."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management need to under stand what market needs and what employer need. it could be vise verse."

"Company used to be a good place to work but these days it is in turmoil."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Relaxed work environment, opportunity to grow, good management, smart people, cutting edge technology/work"

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

"Find some other place to work."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Company has seen some very bad leaders in last 8-9 years. It is in deep financial mess. Its future is very uncertain."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The people I work with."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The Travel was 70%"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Company is out of business"

"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"

"I had a great 8 years at Nortel!"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Great flexibility. Great people. Technically challenging."

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

"Hopefully Nortel can crawl out of the train wreck."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"All the layoffs. Executive teams."

"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"

"professional, not too many questions"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"I enjoyed the travel and working with various customers"

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

"The company has been taken over by Avaya"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"nothing to mention"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"noting to mention"

"Call Center"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"I was able to advance my knowledge of IT solutions"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Management was continuously changing"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"stability"

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."

"People treated each other well"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"People respected each other's opinion. We could agree to disagree and then proceed to work toward a resolution. Most backstabbing was at the upper levels."

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

"Very high stress throughout my career and is much more stressful now."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take care of the employees, not yourselves."

"Great company to work for, is now out of business."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"High tech, challenging, fun."

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

"Company is out of business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Find a way to dave the company."

"After eight months of employment with Nortel, they laid off 50,000 employess in 2001."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Marketing and presenting Optera Metro Platform to customers and tradeshows."

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

"I was flown from Dallas to Atlanta for an interview lasting 8 hours in a conference room, eating lunch while I was interviewed."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The bandwidth glut and telecom bubble that busted affected Nortel Networks more than other telecom equipment companies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn how to market and staff."

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."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"good environment"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"bankruptcy"