Tellabs Reviews

Layoffs were a definite con and the more they occurred, the more some managers used it against you. Just do this or you could be on the next list. People became afraid to speak up when things weren't quite right. Outsourcing many positions and now the acquisition of Tellabs are not good signs.

- Company has no respect for Engineers. - Company is incapable of organic product development because they refuse to respect and retain talent. The only way they can innovate is to buy other companies. - Too many layers of management who are more concerned with reorganizing to protect their own jobs than doing what is right for the success of the company. - Management decisions are based upon politics and turf-wars between HQ in Naperville, IL and remote offices rather than what is best for the product or company as a whole. - Some very bad hiring decisions were made just to get people in the door. Resulted in incompetent or very inexperienced people working on critical projects. - Constant reorganizations and layoffs. More effort is put into reorganizing than how to produce a good product. - Poor decisions have put the company years behind the competition. - Sad story. Was a decent company until the current CEO took over. I was hoping they would continue to grow their Silicon Valley presence (like so many other companies) and become a growing force in the networking industry. Unfortunately they are reducing their presence in Silicon Valley, retreating to HQ, and making extremely poor decisions that will ultimately lead to their demise.