JDSU Reviews

Former Employee – worked at JDSU

Pros – JDSU is the Goliath of the photonics telecommunincations device industry. It is too big to fail. If one has a vision, and the thick skin and determination to see it through, here are all the resources to make that vision live. This is the surest place, to launch another telco revolution, such as was brought on by the EDFA and the high-powered tunable laser source, and the fiber-to.-the-premises.

Cons – JDSU made numerous acquisitions since the early 90's-2000's, which in turn were the amalgamation of numerous acquisitions, and has yet to integrate these disparate,graphically separate, units, each of which clings to its own original culture and origins. Unbelievably, more than 10 years later, the squabble over who (what site, or former acquisition) will do what, still lingers. In-fighting and political manoevering is left to settle the matter, rather than rational decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Rip -off the band-aid in the Telco part of your triad. Make rational personnel and business decisions and explain them high and low. Re-assign, hire, fire, re-align, whatever you call it. The organization carries too much history of turf wars (and charisma duels) that should have been laid to rest long ago, more than a decade ago.

Former Employee – worked at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Pros – Outside office activities are good.

Cons – Be ready to be stress. Management doesnt look at you if your stress or not. HR are pro management doesnt do anything to improve working relationship with the employee and manager.
No vacation accruals. They have DTO, which depends on your Manager approval.

Advice to Senior Management – Give management training to all Managers and Supervisor, how to deal with your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexibility
Work Life Balance
Decent package
No commute

Cons – No management communication
No opportunity to work on new projects
No career growth
Immediate Managers need to stop looking out for themselves
They make decisions without involving team members and when it comes to actually doing the job just hand it to some poor sucker without involving them in the meetings

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Decent Engineering company,
very regimented

Cons – Lack any employee concern
Major buisness model is outsorcing of any and all manufacturing and operations management

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

Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – fun team mates
great benefits
interesting work within the telecom engineering industry

Cons – No official vacation. Instead have Paid Time Off, which is up to your manager's discretion as to how much / when you are able to take any. Some individuals may take 6 weeks in a year, where another's manager will limit their group's to 1-2 weeks / year. If you're not a 'favorite', your PTO is limited.
Much work is outsourced, forcing late-night telecon calls across the world.
Management is poor, making decisions based on outcome on their personal behalf, without seeing the big picture.
Layoffs are not a surprise, but rather an expected quarterly occurrence.

Advice to Senior Management – dump a lot of the current managers, and replace them with qualified people.
Stop vagrant favoritism
See the big picture, to prevent further layoffs.
Bring more work back. Out sourcing is not producing better results.

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

Current Employee – been working at JDSU full-time for more than a year

Pros – DTO can be good if your manager approves your vacation.
Co-workers are good.
People work hard and really do a good job.

Cons – Limited opportunity to advance.
Constant change in direction; no roadmap
Management is very secretive about decision making
Lack of diversity; lots of favoritism shown

Advice to Senior Management – Make a decision to value your people.
Get a roadmap and stick with it.
Creating a culture of fear

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

Current Employee – been working at JDSU

Pros – Excellent health benefits
Unlimited vacation if you can get your manger's approval
Work can be extremely interesting, challenging and fun

Cons – Senior management is incompetent and elitist, no MBWA
Many coworkers are incompetent
English is a second language
Corporate infrastructure is nonexistent or incompetent
It is in a cyclical, boom and bust sector

Advice to Senior Management – Resign and have real executives apply to the board. The company is broken and can only be fixed with people who have a vision for a better more successful company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at JDSU

Pros – A stepping stone to better jobs in the Telecom Industry

Cons – Not a performance based culture. Hiring from the outside is preferable to promoting from within. Does not promote diversity. Extremely political where employees are watching their backs vs. taking actions in the best interests of customers and shareholders.

Advice to Senior Management – More with less eventually leads to less and less!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at JDSU

Pros – fair monetary compensation
good benefits
smart and hard-working coworkers
DTO

Cons – projects are cut without forecasting future needs
management does not trickle down news, so employees are blindsided when their jobs go away
no possibility for growth / change
no training (no budget), so no growh
no recognition for hard work
low moral
DTO is at manager's discretion, so you better be on their good side

Advice to Senior Management – cross-communicate between teams
give a thanks for job well done

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at JDSU

Pros – New challenging business
Some good and skilled people

Cons – Top too heavy
Management is bureaucracy
Too many meetings
Good people are leaving, and bad manager is hired
Manager demotivates the employee
Micromanaging

Advice to Senior Management – You have to pay attention to improve the management, especially for the new business. Otherwise, you keep losing the good people to fail the business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend