Huawei Technologies reviews

- Huawei fundamentally still operates/manages like a Chinese company where centralized decisions were made and sometimes abrupt changes of policies. That could be hard for people who are used to the American company culture. I would say if you are not flexible enough you may not survive the first year of Huawei. - Working experiences may vary a great deal across groups There is no uniform high standard of work satisfaction across different groups. It really depends. Some group may have high turn over, others may be thriving. It really depends on the leader of the group, how well he/she is able to align the group's work w/ company's business interests and can proactively weather the storm. So before joining Huawei, make sure to assess your leader and group well, there could be a high fluctuation of experiences. - Negative branding/PR issue Before I joined Huawei, I was scared by the negative PR of Huawei. So if you decide to join Huawei, there may not be the kind of Halo effect of joining some prestigious companies (but if you ever get stuck in a "prestigious" company, you know how worthless "prestige" can be unless you get out of the company). Now having worked at Huawei for over two years, overall I really like the company and couldn't care less about the negative PR. - How long would Huawei's boom last? Huawei is clearly going through a window of rapid growth w/ expansions into new domains such as smart devices, IoT, 5G, etc. The last couple of years have been very good (thanks to the booming smartphone business). But how long would that last (given the volatility of cellphone business and the outlook of China's economy)? Nobody can tell. I'd say join Huawei now before the boom goes away and make sure you grow on the job so that you have more career assets to move on when things go bad. - Lack of diversity I'd say 80% of technical people are Chinese-speaking. So it could be hard for non-Chinese speaking employee to fit in. But in general colleagues are very nice and go out of the way to help our non-Chinese speaking colleagues.

Toxic Culture Yelling matches in the office considered normal. Managers openly yell at customers and then wonder why we lose out on projects Managers are consistently late or in some cases don't show up for meetings and give no prior notice. They then proceed to yell at you if you show up 5 minutes late because a previous meeting went over and they didn't see your IM stating that you would be late. Of course, no apology was given. Long working hours resulting from over bureaucratic processes and broken English. Local offices have relatively little authority to make decisions and as a result there is a lot of reporting and approvals required. Nothing wrong with that. But why do I have to fill out the same information across 5 forms and STILL have to talk to the "guy" in China for approval? Three-quarters of my time was wasted on paperwork and seeking approvals. The official working language was touted as English, yet documents were not translated by native speakers or professionals. As a result, this created a lot of communication issues. Presentation materials often had to be re-done as there were serious formatting, grammar and spelling issues. Discriminatory promotion practices - It was an open secret that only people from China could hold management positions