Sonus Networks Reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(315 total reviews)
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Raymond P. Dolan

69% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Sonus Networks has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 315 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sonus Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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315 reviews
1.0
11 Aug 2014
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Pays well, good benefits. Excellent product to work on and learn from. Cutting edge of technology.

Cons

Expands and shrinks fast, and destroys peoples employments in a hear beat.. Sonus willing to convince someone to resign from a stable job of other company by offering a large Salary, then as soon as a their project or goal is complete, they layoff that person without any consideration. Very high pay, and highly not a trustworthy company at all. They shipped most of their positions off sure, and might higher people for a short period of time to correct their mistakes as they continue to ship jobs overseas.. This is a company to avoid. Do not get fooled by the high offers/salary,, check their long records of layoff the past two year under the new management, with a single goal; to ship most engineering and support jobs off-shore.

3.0
14 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good people. Okayish work. Not challenging, but once in a while product complexity will give you a kick and fun. I have done maybe 3 challenging cool projects in 10years, which is not bad. But it's people with whom you will spend 8hrs that will and has so far kept me here for last 10yrs. Not everyone is a gem, but mostly reasonable folks and few gems in every team.

Cons

New benefits are Genband inspired and simply suck. They are so bad, mid level employees are easily down with $10k per year of salary towards avg medical costs. In future they are going to suck more. HR is totally Genbandis and cheaper cost is their only objective.

2.0
19 Jul 2019

QA Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Freshers are expected to hit the ground running soon after their training is done. 2. Product lineup is good, with an opportunity to work on products at systems as well as application layer. 3. Good work life balance, except during releases.

Cons

Where do even I begin with ... 1. Outdated frameworks and tools used to work on products, at least on the QA end. 2. Much of the task after a certain point is repetitive, chances are you end up doing the same thing over and over in every release cycle. 3. Quality of many people on Dev as well as QA sides are not that great, which can be seen by the way in which Dev keep fixing the ever-occurring bugs and the monotonous work the QA does. Overall approach lacks modern and innovative solutions. 4. Hiring bar is very low for a product company [feels more like a service company interview], which is directly reflected in the way stuff get done here. 5. The HR have a very cold view on people going for higher studies, and they refuse to accept a settlement if anyone are to negotiate on the mandatory 2-month notice period. If it is for higher studies, the HR insists you to "complete" the notice period despite aware of the fact that you may lose your acceptance at a University. They even said they do not want to hire people who want to go for higher studies. 6. Last but not the least, the compensation. It is well below the industry average and not good enough to attract good talent. Even the core teams are not paid good enough for the work that gets done.

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