Ericsson reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(17,725 total reviews)
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Börje Ekholm

77% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Ericsson has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 17,725 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ericsson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecomunicaciones industry (3.6 stars).

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18K reviews
1.0
Jan 31, 2018

A place to avoid

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice office space Friendly atmosphere

Cons

Incompetent, technologically illiterate management. A culture of avoiding responsibility. Outdated tech stack. Complete lack of interest in career planning & career development of employees - people are reshuffled between unrelated roles at will regardless of their current skillset, interests and wishes - you could be a manager one day, and a developer the next with little to no say in the matter. Lack of transparency in career progression & pay. Meaningless yearly performance review process - irrelevant copy/pasted goals; scores that don't line up with the actual written feedback; scores have minimal impact on compensation. Lack of communication with management - some employees only get 1 or 2 chances for a face-to-face session with their direct manager a year. Excessive amount of red tape - over-reliance on meetings without clear goals and purpose; everything is a word document or a powerpoint presentation (often both); every team is a Scrum team, regardless of how well it fits. Low standard of internal developer documentation - work with internal tools and libraries is an exercise in frustration. Siloing - teams, departments and offices are very isolated from each other. High employee turnover.

1.0
Oct 27, 2017

US Employee Ericsso

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

Large multinational company operating worldwide

Cons

If you're not Swedish and/or located in Sweden, forget it - they believe in the Swede-centric "if it's not done here it's not right" Lazy culture, more focused on coffee breaks and consensus than teaming, collaboration and quality Too much process for the sake of process - doesn't move anything forward or make it better

1.0
Nov 9, 2012

not as good as before

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

international, multiculture, english environment, nothing

Cons

cost centered, stressful, decreasing quality

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