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NextWave Wireless

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Terrible company with terrible top management - Engineer NextWave Wireless Employee Review

1.0
25 Feb 2011
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Pros

I was hired at NextWave about a year before the shut down in March 2009. During the short time I was there I met some good engineers.

Cons

NextWave is more or less a holding company for spectrum assets worldwide. The other divisions, including the semiconductor division were just there to fizzle out over time. I sometimes wonder if this was the plan all along and that upper management didn't really even care about this group. They certainly had the resources to keep it going, but just laid everyone off in the end. The lay off was handled very poorly as well, with basically no severance or job placement assistance given to employees. I can't imagine that a single one of NextWave's former employees looks back at the company with any remotely positive impression. I certainly don't.

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5.0
17 Aug 2022
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Pros

Smart people, fun to work with

Cons

Bankrupt company so can't work here anymore

4.0
10 Feb 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

NextWave has the best equipment that money can buy. They went through a lot of funding but made sure that the engineers were well cared for and had the infrastructure in place to support them. There are some opportunities to get into line management, if you enjoy that sort of thing. The work atmosphere is pretty laid back, and there are many flexible options for working at home, including VPN access and company issued laptops. All in all, they do a good job in giving us the tools necessary to accomplish our work. Management doesn't give undue pressure either; they work with us, instead of against us.

Cons

The company made some serious mistakes in acquiring other businesses. Not sure what the end-game is for our division, but it is not looking very pretty now. It seems that they went through their money too quickly, trying to catch up in a market that has yet to materialize. We accomplished some great things in the short period of time that we've been around, but with the downturn in the economy and the lack of a market, the timing was just not in our favor to keep the company going in this climate. Perhaps there's a chance something will occur soon, but it's doubtful.

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