Hit by offshoring - Systems Architect Ericsson Employee Review

2.0
24 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some great technology, if you can get to it. Nice offices. Friendly, hard working, clever people remain in the UK. A highly progressive company who will help staff with specific needs and promotes diversity.

Cons

Work life balance is a joke. They never push back on customers. Career progression is impossible, unless you're a good manager. Even then they may reorganise your position away. Wages are stagnant. Competition from far east companies and among the remaining western companies means virtually everything is offshored. There is a danger of skills rot due to enterprise customers often being conservative in accepting new technologies, and the long shelf-life of certain products. Change: this doesn't contradit the previous comment, but there is always a lot of change. New solutions, but often based on "old" technology.

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5.0
5 Mar 2026
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Pros

The company culture is great. Super flexible, remote work culture and tons of different areas or career paths to pivot into. International company with offices in 180 different countries. Loads of diversity.

Cons

Many teams can be international, so timezones will conflict a lot and make it much harder to work with people who are overseas as they are logging off as you are getting on. This also causes communication issues as sometimes there can be language barriers.

3.0
13 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Technological superior to most other companies with use of AI and promising future tech/programs -benefits and pay are very competetive -room for professional growth and advancement if you know how to work in a corporate environment -resume development and professional advancement

Cons

-leadership ideology doesnt match the company/CEOs mission statement or belief (company is said to be all for safety yet leaders get put in charge and quickly dismantle and lay off 3 quarters of the safety department) -Leadership changes structure to benefit themselves by having all support functions report to them instead of the CEO, this ensures all support functions take a back seat to production and financial gain to include their employees well being -Company restructured and reorganizes very often while showing no loyalty to the employees who work hard and want to stay, this leads to turn over of great employees.

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