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Huawei Technologies reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(12,271 total reviews)
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Ren Zhengfei

73% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Huawei Technologies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 12,271 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Huawei Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Aug 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Many projects are ambitious and attractive 2. Not product-oriented, so get chance to work on something really interesting 3. Diversified projects 4. Good pay

Cons

1. Seems the HQ doesn't really treat the US employees as its own employees, but just consultants. To some extent, there is a competition relationship between the US team and China team. 2. The funding is strictly controlled by the China BUs, so due to above mentioned relationship, they can withdraw the funding anytime without early notification, no matter whether or not the schedule/plan has been made. They don't care! 3. As a result, the US employees only have a few options: a. do whatever China BU wants them to do; b. find some other funding without the company; c. leave the company 4. Probably due to the poor reputations of the company's organization, the company has lots of difficulty to hire qualified/competent engineers to do the work, so to fulfill the head count, the hiring manager has to lower the criteria when hiring new employees. This kind of people cause big trouble when doing projects.

2.0
Nov 30, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent compensation if you negotiate right Good benefits package Good amount of PTO per year Good performance based bonuses Most of the local employees and a few of the ex-pats are really good people. Have made a lot of good friends here.

Cons

Annual raises are slim to none, even if you are a top 5% performer in your annual appraisal You are expected to have no personal life and work 24 hours a day, 7 days per week to accommodate the US and HQ (China) work schedules. Travel reimbursement policy is absurd. Employee pays for all expenses up front and must seek reimbursement from the company which can take months in some cases. Even if a US VP approves your expenses, it can later get rejected by China. Very very few business decisions can be made by the US management team - most are just figureheads assigned to working with the US media. This means most decisions are ill advised by someone who may have never even been to the US market before, therefore leaving critical projects struggling with decisions and strategies that baffle the customers.

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