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A rewarding experience with opportunities to view the business nearly end-to-end. Once a great company but gradually getting out of the supply chain types of activities though.
Pros
Flexible work schedule. Generally supportive management.
Cons
Exiting supply chain leading towards an uncertain future.
Working there many years ago. Good place to learn new skills and be challenged. Decent pay with good work life balance. Good benefits. Recommend to new grads.
When I first hired on at Motorola over 20 years ago, it was run primarily by engineers and had a family oriented culture, committed to quality and excellence. As time progressed, business leaders replaced the engineers, and the focus shifted from technical excellence to quarterly revenue. Over the same period, the population diminished from over 180,000 to just over 17.000 today (a decline of over 10x). Yet the revenue and profits grow year over year. Its unfortunate in business school they don't explore the consequences of capitalism, the hoarding of wealth, and advocating a balance between corporate profitability and employee well being. Productivity improvements, made possible by the process improvement and technology, are rewarded with quarterly layoffs to constantly work the cost side as employees are costs to be controlled as opposed to assets to be developed. despite all this, it has a great working environment at the time I left. Was a great company. Its now a amazing shrinking company.
Currently I am working in Motorola Solutions as Engineering Analyst. I am comfortable performing a wide range of job duties.I diagnose problem within a system that does not meet specific test requirements, verify the root cause of the failure and propose the possible solution of the corresponding fault.
Benefits and bonus in terms of stock options have cut heavily. There is no stock options for employees any more unless you're in top level management. Benefit costs have risen over the years.
It is a creative and innovative company which roll out a lot of mobile phone product. Friendly environment with colleagues with closely to solve product issues.
Good management and company culture. Recently merged with NXP and now Broadcom. Lot to learn especially for new college grads, good workplace culture.
Pros
Good work life balance
Cons
Poor job security
A small company in the area of telecommunication industry in Bangladesh from where i came to learn about the basics of Radio Network
Pros
A good friendly environment
Cons
Small Company, Didn't have diversity in providing service
Worked here for 22 years great people to work for employee orientated. Great benefits. When I started the company was called General Instruments then Motorola and then Arris. We also felt like a team and worked together Motorola would have family picnics where the employees could bond and great Christmas parties. The working environment is second to none.
Pros
great work environment
None stop layoffs, never knowing when you will be next. Horrible work environment and too many "managers" with not enough workers actually getting the work done. Corporate makes the bottom line look good by selling off all the property in Schaumburg. The company does not care about it's employees at all. It changed from an acceptable health insurance to a "private exchanged program" that tripled the out of pocket costs to get the equivalent coverage. The HR Director knew this new health plan was horrible and he left, now there is an Interim HR person in there blowing smoke.
Pros
None
Cons
Everything
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Motorola solutions has a great history of 80+ years in business. In more recent times it has shrunk from having over 150,000 employees globally to having less than 40,000; and it is still waning. It is not clear if or when the decrease would stop.
Great place to work, co-workers are really nice, the hardest part of the job, try to make any change, as and old company is really difficult to introduce new concepts.
Pros
Wellness center
normal day at work i start my shift at 2.20 pm and finish 10.30 pm job is ok but the money is not good, i repaired phones on lvl 123, soldering on mainboard replacement component etc
Fun Team. Good Managers. Mindful team. Latest Technology. Good Building. Good work life balance. it has been great experience.
Pros
Cafeteria, excersize room
Cons
no pay increase
Motorola was a good company to work for. It has gone through alot of ups and downs and layoffs are fairly common. Being in the wrong place and the wrong time was just part of the semiconductor business and something you just had to get used to.
1- Lot of experience
2- To be Multitask
3- Lot of Fun with customers and operators
4- good Salary
6- Training out of the country you work in
Pros
Fun and Experience
Cons
None
The hours of work are very flexible and people are very independent. After working in Motorola, you will definitely come out with a strong resume as the job is very demanding and complex. Do not expect job security, however. I am surprise to see so many positions available right now after their recent lay offs of a great number of employees. Motorola is very stock oriented so they do not hesitate when it comes to down-size and outsource. They have recently sold their LAST facility in So Fla and are currently leasing. I don't see any long term plans for the Engineers in So Fla.
Pros
Good Benefits, Very independent environment to work in
Cons
No job stability, company is not employee oriented, too many lay-offs, outsources
Pleasant, but hectic and challenging work environment. Co-workers are generally helpful, if they aren't in crisis mode. Training is easy to get, but you have to take the initiative to find and request it. This is a good place to develop new skills.
The first 1-2 promotions will be easy to get if you work hard and fit in, but promotions past mid grade are much rarer and increase your chance of being laid off.
Management is very top-down, and those at the top don't do a very good job of seeing all the implications of their decisions. The current thrust is "right-sizing", which means continuing layoffs as the company shrinks. It's all about the bottom line.
Make sure that you have an exit strategy if you stay longer than 5 years. Current practice favors laying off the most experienced people first, and anybody can be laid off if they're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Pros
No problem taking time off when needed. Good healthcare plan.
Cons
Shrinking company. Frequent layoffs. No respect for experience.
when i was worked with them i learned out to operate machine and out relate to other co-workers
Pros
No lunch
Cons
No break
* Doing Line of Sight (LOS) survey & making report & submit this survey report to Transmission Manager.
* Making Link Budgate using (Path Los 4.0) & interference calculation for WARID Telecom.
* Installation Supervision, Dismantle & Upgrading, Software Upgrading, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Remote access, Integration, cross connects/mapping (E1 & STM-1), DCN, BER Testing, PAT of ERICSSON & MARCONI MW SDH & PDH Links (MINI-LINK TN, CRAFT (1+0, 1+1), MDRS 155S (1+0, (1+1), 2*(1+1), (2+2), (4+0)).
* Commissioning, Integration, Cross Connection, Testing & Troubleshooting of SMA 1240 & 1664.
* Snags Rectifications & PAT (Preliminary Acceptance Test) and to ready PAT documents for Mini-Link TN & MDRS 155 S.
* Survey, Installation, configuration, Ping Test, Integration, Mapping (E1) Troubleshooting & PAT of MOTOROLA Canopy 2.4 & 5.7 GHz (AP, SM).
* MOTOROLA Clarity Related work (Create new Resources, Create new Projects, Timesheet management, maintain the existing projects, Troubleshooting, Report Generating, and Closing Resource).
* Installation, Configuration, Integration, Troubleshooting, Redeployment & PAT of CISCO Router MWR 1941, Cisco Catalyst 2900 & 2950 Switch & ParadyneENE2044& ENE2084
Not focused, and no visionWorking on hard environment where the politics is too much, makes you learn more. because you try to be focused and create your own path within the miss around you.The management was focusing on building conflicts to keep things under their controlCoworkers, simply they were enemy for each other. and it was really hard to stay balanced.Politics was the hardest part.Learning was the only fun in this company.
Pros
learning
Cons
politics
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