Does Huawei Technologies pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Huawei Technologies employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Huawei Technologies. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Huawei Technologies?

54% of Huawei Technologies employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Huawei Technologies 2.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.0 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Huawei Technologies?

Software Engineer (1021) , Project Manager (367) , Engineer (337) , Network Engineer (325) , Senior Software Engineer (305) , Product Manager (234) , Intern (205) , Account Manager (177) , Senior Engineer (164) , Internship (156) , RF Engineer (127) , Wireless Engineer (121) , Research Engineer (110) , Core Network Engineer (106) , Manager (104)

What are the pros of working at Huawei Technologies according to real employee reviews?

"Possible to get good salary increases + bonuses (at the cost of much higher responsibilities and workload" ((in 1281 reviews)); "Good pay and easy to work for" ((in 511 reviews)); "Colleagues are nice and willing to help" ((in 369 reviews)); "very diverse and nice people" ((in 301 reviews)); "Always Very challenging Project Responsibility Good Bonuses Place to learn and gain new experiences to grow" ((in 281 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Huawei Technologies according to real employee reviews?

"There is no Work Life Balance always and mostly all of technologies are related Chinese firmware and not usefull outsite" ((in 1164 reviews)); "Bad management and Chinese cultural" ((in 601 reviews)); "Hierarchical Structure: Chinese culture often places a strong emphasis on hierarchy and respect for authority." ((in 478 reviews)); "Extended working hours expectation from indian managers" ((in 319 reviews)); "All high level managers are Chinese and some of them cannot even speak an understandable English" ((in 195 reviews))

What are employees saying about Huawei Technologies layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Huawei Technologies layoffs and their outlook for job security at Huawei Technologies in 2026.

Huawei Technologies reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(12,263 total reviews)

Ren Zhengfei

72% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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Huawei Technologies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 12,263 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Huawei Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecomunicazioni industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

12K reviews

3.0

Nov 6, 2008

Not bad choice for entry-level student and some really strong guys.

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

For entry-level student, it is not a bad choice. For really strong guys, you may also get a lot of opportunities, but for others, if not enjoy life, just enter it, otherwise, considering your future work. If you have entered, just try to adapt yourself to the culture at the beginning, and if finally find it does not match with you, then, go out and get a new job. At least, you should be able to learn something at the beginning for most guys.

Cons

Not open, too many regulations and maybe too-much over-time work in some departments.

2.0

Oct 20, 2008

Huawei, the Chinese working culture

Product manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It's a relatively still new player in Telco (vendor) as a MNC when I joined. So there's lots of opportunity to learn and enrich ones knowledge and grow with the company.

Cons

Workload is enormous and not fairly compensated for the effort put in. It will come to the point, where you rather cross sword with management or just say good bye. The company always try to impose Chinese working ethics to all their oversees branches although their will claim the other way round. If you do not know what's the Chinese working ethics like, here it is .....work hard (yes, the longer your working hours, the more you will impress your superior), just accept management decisions even when you know it's not the best practice ....

3.0

Sep 10, 2008

The R&D telco gaint in the region.

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It's a big company and the market leader. Great medical and health care plans and flexible work hours and places. An important tool for garnering that feedback is the Huawei pulse survey. This provides a confidential and consistent means for employees across Huawei to rate their experience with the company. I would recommend Huawei as a good place to work and would encourage people to join Huawei.

Cons

It has all the downsides that all big companies tend to have.People promoted based on how well they suck up vs. performance.Technical staff were offered no advancement beyond a certain level of income / staff grading.

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