Disappointed - Not the company I expected and not the one I hired into - Anonymous employee Motorola Solutions Employee Review

2.0
14 May 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent salary, bonus, benefits. Motorola pays very well. The physical work environments are clean and well kept. Motorola offers flexible work environment (working from home/telecommuting) if the job allows it

Cons

The excellent pay is required to keep what talent they can. Motorola does not respect engineering talent. They do respect an incompetent middle management and a vastly over rated upper management. The company has gone from 160k a decade ago to a tenth of that size, yet the management salaries are the same. Motorola has made a series of missteps in recent years (Iridium, Aspira, missing the digital telecom revolution, building the Harvard Plant... many, many others. This was due to a lack of strategic management and a belief Brownian Motion (pun intended) will create a new product every time an old drops. If this did work Management would be unnecessary. As it does not, the current management should be replaced with innovators and visionaries. Motorola also has a bizarre review process that alone is a reason to avoid this company.

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5.0
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Pros

Great work environment and great people. Flexibility to make your own decisions and steer the organization the way you see fit.

Cons

Constantly connected to the job, even after hours. Hard to disconnect.

2.0
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Pros

I highly value the autonomy I am given to manage my own workload, and I thoroughly enjoy collaborating with several of my talented colleagues.

Cons

That independence comes at a cost. The company is incredibly disorganized and siloed. Management will force lateral moves on you without asking; I've ended up balancing four different roles with absolutely no pay increase. Requests for fair compensation compared to the peers I trained were completely ignored. Territories change constantly, but zero training is provided. You are essentially left entirely on your own to figure it out.

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