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Working at Nortel in Fairfax, VA: 5 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Fairfax, VA Area

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On average, employees in Fairfax, VA at Nortel give their company a 2.2 rating out of 5.0 based on 5, whereas overall Average Rating of Nortel is 4.2 out of 5.0 based on 247 Nortel Review Ratings. The happiest Nortel employees in Fairfax, VA are Convergence Engineers submitting an average rating of 4.0 and Senior Engineering Managers with a rating of 3.9.

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4.2
Average Rating
(based on 72 Nortel Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.1
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.5
Person You Work For
4.4
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.0
Way You Work
4.4
Work Setting
4.1
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Working at Nortel in Fairfax, VA: 5 Employee Reviews

Senior Engineering Manager
in Fairfax, VA

"I worked for Nortel Government Solutions for several years before it was bought out by Avaya. Nortel was a booming company at one time but I believe mismanagement led to its demise."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Convergence Engineer
in Fairfax, VA

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"If you did a great job, you were rewarded fairly and appropriately."

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

"This company no longer exists. It's final sale was that of the 6000 patents which yielded 4.5B from Apple, Microsoft and a consortium of other industry players who did not want google to own the intellectual property of the company."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"It was so large, it never restructured appropriately enough, or quickly enough to stabilize the business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nortel shrunk ov er the years by laying off highly competent sales and engineering personnel. Often keeping inadquate or inexperienced managers in place. My advice to Nortel would be two-fold: 1.When you layoff employees, make sure that the upper management and middle management teams feel the pain as well. 2. Do not lay off the personnel who effectively collect the money/payments from customers."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

4.2
Nortel (247)
4.5 Highest Rated in this Industry is Adtech (8)
2.2 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Blue Fountain Media (8)
3.8 Average of All Companies in this Industry (13,152)
Senior Project Manager
in Fairfax, VA
Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3.9 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1.1 / 5
Company Culture 2.2 / 5 Way You Work 3.8 / 5
Mailroom Supervisor
in Fairfax, VA

"NGS is simply adequate to get started. It isn't a career location."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The opportunity it afforded me to balance full time school with full time work."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The fact that I cannot grow here. Simple as that."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Develop your talent. They will help you build your business."

LAN Administrator
in Fairfax, VA

"Great"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The ability to be able to work in my field and be able to learn from those that have been here a long time."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"The distance that I have to travel to get to work"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No suggestions management is pretty good"

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