Flextronics Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for more than a year

Pros – No age discrimination; lots of training available at various levels.

Cons – Frequent layoffs; Short term orientation

Advice to Senior Management – Save technical staff even if you don't have immediate projects. Take politics out of decision making

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – easy job,fixed schedule, multicultural enviroment, free parking

Cons – long process of convertion to full time. not many chances of career growth

Advice to Senior Management – care more for the employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics

Pros – Great flexibility and benefits are pretty good. Small company attitude within a big company. From an employee point of view, most of the time it is fairly low stress.

Cons – Poor management direction and communications. Management is their own little clic and mostly former Nortel (you know how well they did). Small company attitude within a big company. Office environment matches the low cost philosophy of the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Either throw away the big company attitude or embrace it. Don't leverage it when it appears to fit. Set a clear direction and go for it. Communicate openly with the employees.

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics

Pros – Typical flex time environment. If you enjoy engaging with various customers, then this is the company for you. Leveraging understanding of operations, design, and manufacturing can be a potential to this organization as all of these are core competencies.

Cons – Old company mentality with very little new blood. A lot of this mentality is due to recent acquisition of similar firms: Nortel and Solectron. The company focus is to typically acquire companies with potential technology. There may be room to change positions, but the company operates as a small company under the umbrella of a larger organization. There is very little cross-functionality between departments.

Advice to Senior Management – In short the greatest change that Flextronics could do is invest in their own company as oppose to acquiring new technologies through M&A procedures. There is very little R&D opportunities in this organization which is a hinderance to attracting innovative talent.

Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time

Pros – Flexibility. Good for those seeking routine comfort zone.

Cons – No job security and lousy employee benefits. Does not reward according to merits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Many good colleagues, fast paced, opportunities to make an impact on day to day processes, very international environment allows for multi-cultural interaction.

Cons – Too many re-organizations by senior management which leads to concern over future direction. No telecommuter policy is negative as they will not really allow people flexibility to work remotely even when it is clearly in the best interest of the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Flextronics part-time for more than a year

Pros – Independant
Medium Challenging
Good benefits and compensation
Smart Senior management
Nurturing

Cons – Slow workpace and bad coordination

Advice to Senior Management – Give individuals more freedom to pursue ideas

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time

Pros – Opportunities to work in a global organization and travel to other countries. Opportunity to work with some of the best technology companies.

Cons – There is no real process improvement and many employees don't have skills necessary for the position they have. Hierarchical organization.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve communication

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible working hours, good pay & benefits

Cons – Fast change business environment, always retrenchment strategy applied

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Hardworking people & smart managment contributes the success of company.

Cons – Lot of baurocracy slows the things down

Advice to Senior Management – Need to delegate the job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend