Nortel Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"working with new technologies"

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

"good gig to work for"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"long days and nights at work"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"try to be as positive as possible"

"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."

"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"

"Good luck!"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"I was a consultant, so I enjoyed the flexibility that comes with contracting."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"They seemed very disorganized and bad managed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on the development of the products lines, especially the core lines."

"Excellent company but due to the dot com bust, they went out of business."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Excellent company, products and company"

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

"They are out of business and were purchased by avaya"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"They went out of business..."

"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"

"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"

"Loved this job, until their sold the entire division off."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Super place to work, great people."

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

"Try to stay in a division that is a core product line for the company."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"A bit too big, they lost track of some of their product line and how to deal with it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Should have made a better effort on finding internal employment for those left holding the bag when the division was sold off. The employees were lied to about how this would happen - not cool."

"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 company to work for, unfortunately the telecom crash reduced the headcount."

"This is the first time I have to do some thing like this after applying for a job"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"There are lot of opportunity to learn. Very flexible in work hrs,"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"its a failed company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"can be improved"

"Great company until bankruptcy declared."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Telecomuting available."

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

"Forget it - going Chapter 7 liquidation."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Management is liquidating the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop the negative cash flow."

"Great"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Working environment, team concepts, career advancement & the best company I've ever worked in my career."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Nothing. It was a GREAT company to work!!!!"

"good job evaluation for a previous experience and the vision of a job. Good review."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"international company with great internal opportunities in a great environment. A really good company to work for."

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

"As always be natural and listen. The best way to find a good job is to listen first."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Some procedure could be disturbing but it is necessary for a big international company such as Nortel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management changed too many times in less three years so it can be disturbing."

"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"