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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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Senior Engineering Leader

"Great experience."

Packet Core Network Support Lead

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"challenges"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"financial trouble"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"company is heading for bankruptcy"

Systems Engineer

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Growth opportunities and benefits."

Global IT Portfolio Manager
in Rtp, NC

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The daily challenges."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"There wasn't anything I didn't like."

Contract Engineer

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"interesting work"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Sprint Management"

Business Development Manager

"Company is being sold off."

Web Marketing Manager

"Good company, interesting products. They're caught in tech downturn, so jobs come and go."

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Good products, great people, always on the edge of technology, which was interesting."

Senior Product Manager
in Rtp, NC

"This employer has extreme financial struggles"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Great people to work with and a flexible work environment"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Constant threat of layoffs and lack of resources"

Global Technical Support Engineer

"I enjoyed working for Nortel"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Multi-cultural environment"

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

"No what you are doing and have a willingness to learn"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Micro managed"

Software Designer

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"Have great challenge to introduce any new functionality, the existing system has millions of lines of codes and is real-time critical and complicated software."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"It is hard for me to think of something I don't like at Nortel networks. Only the bankruptcy makes me sick."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Team members' experience and expertise play critical role in achieving high quality product software."

Nortel Employee

"Too Little, Too Late. Why should one think this survey will make any difference"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"There may be pockets of positions where one can have some normalcy in terms of a career. But, overall, not a good place to work."

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

"Only work at Nortelgov if you need the $$. Make sure you go in knowing what can happen to you if you get laid off."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Management, the way go about doing business, employee relations and taking care of employees is definitely not a priority, benefits, especially when they lay you off, etc... Should I go on"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more upfront and truthful, be more engaging with your employees and visit them on client sites as often as you can, hear your employees once you have heard of clients and do not allow the bottom line and bad attitude clients dictate your behavior and what is right to do."

Channel Account Manager

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"the people, the job, the benefits, overall great place"

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

"they have sold all the different divisions, research who you are really applying with"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"they went into chapter 11"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"finance needed to be handled better"

Global Trials Manager

"great company, great products"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"technology leader; great people, einvironment"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"core software technology"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"improve product cost, life cycle"

Verification and Design Engineer

"honest"

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"The people"

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

"Nortel will only exist for a few more months. They are attempting to sell all parts of the company."

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"Inability of the executives to find success with a company that delivers quality."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Employees lost trust in all VPs and above."

Project Lead

What do you like about working at Nortel?

"good environment"

What don't you like about working at Nortel?

"bankruptcy"

Nortel Reviews FAQs

Is Nortel a good company to work for?

Nortel has an overall rating of 4.2 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 72 Nortel Review Ratings left anonymously by Nortel employees, which is 8% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 99% of employees would recommend working at Nortel.

Does Nortel pay their employees well?

Nortel employees earn $86,000 annually on average, or $41 per hour, which is 30% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 14 Nortel employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Nortel Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Nortel?

99% of employees would recommend working at Nortel with the overall rating of 4.2 out of 5. Employees also rated Nortel 4.1 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.6 for Growth Opportunities and 4.0 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Nortel?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Nortel is a Senior Counsel at $351,000 annually. Browse Nortel Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Nortel?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Nortel is a Customer Service Clerk at $24,000 annually. Browse Nortel Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Nortel?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Nortel to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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