Working at Powerwave Technologies in Santa Ana, CA: 18 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Santa Ana, CA Area

"The company is no longer in business. I do not like to judge the reason for the failures but clearly there were aspects of the business that were not handled right."

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"I enjoy the management style, it presented the employees with a sense of honesty, openness, friendliness of senior management."

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

"Be honest, be your self, be enthusiastic, and be excited about the position you are interviewing for. Enthusiasm and excitement are contagious."

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Sometimes it felt like decisions were made in haste in order to achieve a specific or short term goal while fully understanding the long term affect."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Respect the lead times and timelines of the design, development, and qualification processes in the new product introduction (NPI) life cycle phase."

"A reformed hardware engineer who transitioned to embedded software."

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"The projects and the people I work with. The projects range from simple 1 person projects to very complicated, with multiple processors and teams of software developers."

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

"Don't as job security is very poor. You may end up needing to find a new job within the next few montys."

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"The direction of the company. We are losing a lot of money and we may soon all lose our jobs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"1. Treat your customers better. Our revenue has dropped, partially as our industry has struggled since the tech bust, but also because a lot of our customers don't like working with us.2. Direction - A lot of projects we work on end up getting cancelled or end up not getting any sales orders."

"Excellent"

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Great company to work for, excellent Opportunity for growth, Culture, nice facility"

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

"Yes. If you have can do attitude this is the company for you"

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Global company, syncing up with all it is a challenge sometimes"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More involvement of upper level of managment to resolve issues in timely manners"

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"R&D . . . . . . . . . ."

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"repetative work . . . . . . . ."

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Easy, flexible schedule - can work form home, if need be."

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

"Be yourself - if you are knowledgeable and position matches your skill set the chances are that you will get an offer"

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Non technical management attempting to making technical decisions based on 'feelings' vs. facts."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Bring emphasis on technology, and product execution back. As it stands, outsourcing model has failed since product development teams were never given a chance to finalize products before rushed into production. Fixing product loose ends in manufacturing is a path to failure."

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"technology, People that I work with and the type of work that I do."

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Direction of the company ,the management, company vision and direction."

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"The work I am doing here goes into the product within short time"

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

"Minimum RF and HW knowledge is must for a successful candidate"

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Lack of proper product Road-map and future planning for next technology leap."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better technology direction or road map building and execution planning"

"I would never work there again"

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"I like learning new technology."

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

"Find somewhere else to work, even a job with waste management is better"

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Abusive Senior staff"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to treat employees better"

"Great company to work for."

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Opportunity for growth and advancements."

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Mandatory overtime."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Great management."

"Responsible for all tests setup in Lab"

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"People are very friendly, company with a lot of good benefits"

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

"Knowledge RF"

What don't you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"Company moved to China"