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Mike McNamara
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
2012-09-30 23:13 PDT
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
2012-09-17 15:50 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time for less than a year
Pros – Excellent pay, nice place to work in peace, disciplined, enjoyable work and parties
Cons – work loads and pressure due to assembly line, tiring, standing chairs are not comfortable at all
Advice to Senior Management – please provide proper training to the employees and give comfortable chairs to the workers to work with
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2012-06-11 21:43 PDT
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.
2012-02-26 06:46 PST
Current Employee – been working at Flextronics
Pros – I cannot describe the best reasons however you can meet good people there
Cons – EMS mentality and culture doesn't encourage professional and personal growth.
Advice to Senior Management – Think out of the box, look.... there are many smart people around who can recognize and make a difference between a strategy without future and a future without a strategy
2012-01-10 17:36 PST
Current Employee – been working at Flextronics
Pros – Compensation, benefit package, and an environment with excellent technical capabilities.
Cons – Poor seating arrangements, lack of communication by senior management
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2011-12-16 19:28 PST
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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.
2010-04-12 16:58 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Flextronics full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – tech based job that was fun
Cons – verizon stopped the contract so I got fired
Advice to Senior Management – dont fire me.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-20 17:42 PDT
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
2013-05-17 22:42 PDT
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
2013-05-15 06:55 PDT
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