JDSU Reviews

I worked at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Pros – Efficient and effective Senior management.
Profit driven and strong focus on CEO obejctive - BHAG II.
This is a clear vision that the entire company is moving forth.

Cons – US leadership failed to delegate authortiy down to APAC region, thus delaying key decisions and lack of understanding of Asian cultures.
Lack of processes and procedures, middle managemnt do not have insights and avoid taking up some roles and responsibilities that are not clearly defined.

Advice to Senior Management – Delegate a member from the senior leadership to station in Asian and lead the teams.

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

I worked at JDSU full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people, great products. Good work environment.

Cons – politics. A lot of continuous chatter and anxiety of loosing jobs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Pros – JDSU is a very open minded company, and flexible towards employees needs, it has also a good work life balance. The first level management is very knowledgeable and open minded as well. It is an engineering/technical company in the communication and optical arena, so technical knowledge is very appreciated

Cons – The company is very distributed among geographies and timezones, as a result sometimes it is difficult to find out who does what, it is in my opinion the problem of having a bit of a silos mentality

Advice to Senior Management – I would advise them to improve interaction among the different part of the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Pros – flexibility and peace in doing job,

Cons – lack of exposure to new technologies, no work culture

Advice to Senior Management – Please provide more opportunities to employees for their growth within organization

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at JDSU

Pros – Focused and balance sheet driven.

Cons – Human touch and interpersonal relations.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in employees for longer time durations to derive returns out of them.

I have been working at JDSU full-time

Pros – JDSU is a very advanced and dynamic organisation which is constantly adapting. Having previously worked for a very strictly regimented organisation, JDSU has been a breath of fresh air. The people are friendly, helpful and extremly supportive and all show an extremely realistic attitude. I would recommend JDSU to anyone willing and able to adapt to change and evolve with the company.

Cons – The only downsde to JDSU is its lack of consistency of process across its regions due to global legislation, etc, as well as during constant change. As long as you are adaptable and open then its easy to work with.

Advice to Senior Management – Ensure consistency on the ground and promote and retain employee motiviation during great change.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at JDSU full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – They respect my opinions and efforts

Cons – Employees sometimes viewed as cogs in a wheel

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

I have been working at JDSU full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Motivated and responsible engineers exist and it is very nice to work with those folks rather than dealing with someone whose only focus is to get something done at all costs. Engineering designs should be done not in a hacked way, but rather while thinking of its long term consequences and affects on other sides of the bigger design, involving other projects (now and in the future)

Cons – I don't believe there is effort coming from the senior and mid management to retain talented (and already trained for the work we do) in the company. Money as well as ranking changes I don't think are used properly to satisfy talented people. This in the long run will cripple the engineering part of the company, which will most likely affect the companies' ability to sustain its promised growth.

Advice to Senior Management – Please pay more attention to retain the talented engineers with the company. Those people are hard to keep as they tend to be smarter than the rest - They will leave the company after waiting a bit if they don't get what they believe they should: Promotion (aka give them more responsibility) and money. I don't believe these two tools are used properly and on-time to keep the talent in-house.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at JDSU full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – still alive, some product is great

Cons – management is living on quarter-by-quarter, no vision at all

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

I worked at JDSU full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great place to learn about technologies

Cons – Management that does not understand the industry, more operation focused

Advice to Senior Management – Appreciate and recognize the contribution of past loyal & dedicated employees

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