Unwired Planet Reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)
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Eric Vetter

100% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Unwired Planet has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unwired Planet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
6 Mar 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Ok if you like travelling - Some neat products - Interesting space to be in - Lots of potential to learn new stuff

Cons

The company is looking to sell some core business units. All employees have been divided up according to a game of musical chairs (i.e. the project you were on when the music stops decides your future). There was no consultation and no discussion. This is quite typical of the management style witnessed during one's time at Openwave. For such a small company, Openwave acts incredibly arrogantly, and it is no surprise they are being broken up and sold off in this manner. There is a big divide between senior management and the regular employees. No one is listened to, and employees are treated like they don't matter whilst the (very well paid) senior management continue to steer the ship in the wrong direction. Good people either leave out of frustration, or get made redundant during one of the frequent RIFs that happen.

1.0
8 Oct 2011

Marking time at a dying company.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The campus is nice. Good walking trails by the bay.

Cons

Product and senior management seems to have no idea how to move forward on some of their flagship products. I saw much wasted time, money, and opportunity go down the drain on projects that went absolutely nowhere.

2.0
3 May 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In very early days (1999-2001) a good to very good place to work. Once merger of Phone.com and Software.com was completed, went straight downhill. Every CEO since has been only marginally competent.

Cons

Absolutely no respect for contributions from the mid-level managers who built company. Newer management does not care if institutional knowledge and skills are lost through attrition, lack of motivation, poor management. Each new senior level person throws out the previous contributors (or makes them want to leave) and brings in marginally competent people with no respect for those who built the company. Their most recent CFO and interim GC were (imho) not qualified but ran others out due to their egos and inflated sense of importance.

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