Don't get biased by the Ericsson Brand name-Ericsson Chennai,India is worst place for Growth n best place for Politics - Verification Engineer Ericsson Employee Review

1.0
Nov 2, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

1>Mobility,Internal Transfer 2>Employees have an option to look out for jobs across the Ericsson worldwide locations, and can apply for it.

Cons

1>Pathetic management and most managers are good for nothing 2>Poor work culture.Especially Chennai Center simply sucks.Managers and Employees have no professionalism. 3>Lot of politics at higher management n middle level Management. 4>Never paid the 100% of promised variable pay 5>Ericsson is truly global company with good standers but Chennai R& D center people talk in Tamil,not just at work place but in meetings,reviews all stages of software development. 6>Managers seems to be supportive if u ask for job change,location change,better work etc.. but they back stab you at the end.Even if u get selected by different business unit,different product,better work manager wont let employees move from their current project.

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