Pros
Is good for 1st job/unexperienced ppl. Or a lucky overpaid subcontractor, he he... They had full work from home for some months during Covid, now they want ppl back to offices --> the talented ones will leave, as so many companies accepts now full time remote, thanks to Covid. It's still a big name in CV for the ones that don't know too much how it's inside. They had work for home help. Like support to pay part of the chair/lamp/office but only if you buy hugely overpriced specific items from their list MANDATORY from IKEA. Because let's support Sweden. If you don't leave company it's ok, otherwise you need to pay them back, and those prices are not worthing it. Even the indians were upset about this, just imagine :)))
Cons
As someone below said. it could have been a great place to work but it's not. When you step in for the 1st time it looks like a nice polished bussiness, but after some months you'll get to know better how things works. They have some nice brain-storming mambo jumbo company culture, but only for the big dogs. If you're lower than job stage 7 you're just one number in the reports and always disposable. I'm really amazed how some are appointed managers in this company when they have no competence in the field. Might be like the other ones here said, they know "somebody" or they have "noble" Sweden roots. For some projects, Ericsson in Romania is just a ramp to bring more indians for EU projects. I'm also amazed how they keep paying contractors from Tata Consulting Services when in theyr own security trainings, TCS is given as bad example stealing data from a big company in US and got very big fine. But they still agree to work with TCS.... The benefits system is made to look big, it's actually far less than other way smaller companies are offering now. No Easter , Xmas, New Year ,etc. bonus AT ALL. Annual bonus /13th salary ONLY IF some criterias are met (if your department is poor or your manager don't likes you say bye bye). And some don't have it at all. Well at least you have a bonus when someone from your family is born or dies, not much but it is. How thoughfull of Ericsson. Here in Romania they also using a benefits platform that is giving vouchers for some stores, and when you get in the store they say it's not accepted. Useless platform but I get "someone" got big commission to appoint them here. HR is not always responding to emails. Sometimes the pay is not according to the actual worked hours. No events / parties / free things to eat. It's marketed as a place to grow and to be able to move internally. Actually these things are done depending on "who you know". Also if you are comming to learn, the learning platform has worse than youtube quality courses, no support towards getting market standard certifications like Cisco , CompTIA, ... because it costs money. It's started to loose ground to way smaller companies. They keep saying they work for talent retention but don't really do anything about it. It's hard to retain talent with less than 5% salary increase or no increase at all when inflation is going through the roof. I guess their target is to go ultra cheap since indians are now the most important and biggest group of employees in Ericsson. If they "keep up the good work" soon the entire company will become an indian call center.