Tellabs Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Great Team and freedom. Excellent senior management, willing to help and provide guidance"

"Since Tellabs Dallas campus has shrunk so much, I put very low for job security and recommendation."

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Tellabs used to be called Reltec. Back in Reltec days, the company was like a big family. I liked the family like feeling very much."

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

"Find out the stability of the company."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"A lot of times, you have to put a lot of extra hours (60 plus hours weekly)."

"Tellabs was a great place to work and gain excellent career experience in any field."

"ex-employee"

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"The work was challenging and at times rewarding. It takes time to find the correct internal resources to accomplish anything. Mainly because only one third of the people or less that work at Tellabs actually work."

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

"Interview. Use that experience to get a better job with a Tellabs competitor. You will ultimately learn more and be rewarded in the long run with more job security and lower levels of stress. I would not recommend Tellabs as a long term employer. Unless you enjoy social and political games and BS versus skills to actually further career growth. Advancement is very limited otherwise."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Too much politics and favoritism. The politics which are heavy within Tellabs detract from work getting done. Infighting and managers holding grudges or having agendas for there own means is common. You have to watch yourself of kiss backside to survive within the company. It is by no means the company it once was. The business is run more like a social club versus a business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management shoud be scaled down. Several managers within the support organization are severely inept and are just there because they have been with the company or are such fowl ups there is now no other place to hide them."

"Office politics and favoritism are all over at Tellabs."

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Initially it was a wonderful company. After Mike Burke retired all the cronnies robbed the place blind and took theres. The corporate culture is shut up and work. You complain you lose your job or your job is done away with. Before working there was never considered a job it was like you were contributing to something and you were treated very well. That stopped in 2001 and has gotten progressively worse. Best things that could happen is that the company gets bought up or goes away."

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

"Take it for the experience but remember most places you will interview with have Nortel or Avaya or Lucent equipment. Tellabs no longer carries the strong brand name it once did in the marketplace. It is in fact slipping and a detriment when interviewing."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Corporate cronnie and snitch atmosphere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fire yourselves."

"good"

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"I liked the people I worked with."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Opportunities in Texas were more limited than at the Illinois headquarters."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Tellabs stock collaped from $95 to $6 within five years, and has continued to slide since."

"Tellabs is Great!"

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Tellabs is very open to position changes and advancement. They promote personal and professional growth."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Tellabs has a bit of a corporate feel to it."

"Tellabs is difficult to work for as there have been lots of layoff's and the company is not performing well."

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"The work was good"

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

"Be careful the job may not last long"

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"The energy was bad as many people were losing their jobs"

"Excellent company at the time."

"Good company"

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Lots of training was available"

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

"Cutting edge technology that is forever revolving."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Location"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing, because they treat contractors and employees equal."

"Great co-workers, fantastic projects, great pay and compensations."

"Good place to work."

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Good people, culture and technology."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"The fact business went down and many of their employees including me got laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improve the business plan to gather more market share."

"If it wasn't for the Economic Recession, in which I was laid off, I would have worked there until they made me leave."

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"I can't think of anything I did not like about my job, I looked forward to going to work every day, and doing the best I could to represent my company in every manner."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Nothing, Other than I am not working there anymorer!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Well it would not be a fortune 500 company, started with only 13 guys, one of which is still the CEO. So I don't think that I can make any suggestions when a management team has a track like theirs."

"ok"

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"dynamics and development complexity"

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"none"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"stay focused"

"Mid-Size Company"

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Good working environment."

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Too many remote offices."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Consolidate."