all i know...they have project with telekom.....

Hopefully.

This post has been edited by syyang85: Jan 13 2009, 05:36 PM

Huawei just call me for interview as QC/QA Engineer nex week..
Wan to ask did they ask any technical question during the interview?
How many part in the 1st interview?

This job very easy and you are very free when you get the job done! But really you learn nothing on QA/QC.

A high ranked officer of Huawei who met me several times told me this time:"I will not be suprised if Huawei die tomorrow." The huge fat body , the long market battle line, have become the unprecedented challange for Huawei. Their organizating ability, the method to fullfill the request of international market, understanding to modern competitation, cannot keep up with their leader, Mr. Ren,zhenfei's request. Thousands of employees, directors of Huawei have lost their once great Huawei sprit. A kind of laziness, lackness of responsibility has spreaded among the employees of Huawei. I am thinking, today's Huawei, maybe considered a saving power of telecom industry in the world, but maybe because of this power, Huawei forgets to save herself.
From my point of view, Huawei faces below crises:

1)Unequlized support from government: As a private company, Huawei cannot get same support from government as the support for ZTE

2)Huawei is success in overseas market based on their price strategyt this further make their financial burden heavier. Those international rivals of Huawei are becoming stronger. The profit of Huawei from 2006 to 2008 came more from costdown but not sales.

3) In 3G domestic market, Huawei lost the leader position in TD-SCDMA market

4)The financial situation of Huawei has not improved for a long time. They have not enough methods to find new money.

So based on all these analyse, I think the coming global financial crisis will have more impacts on Huawei than their domestic rivals in China. The overseas market cannot save Huawei, only China's market can save Huawei. But How China save Huawei?

By Jacques Liu a Mainland Chinese now based in Japan.
Source: http://chinafiberoptics.blogspot.com/

omg... dont scare me.. I heard R&D department is laying off people right now..

huawei has been registered double digit growth on revenue for few years consecutively....but the profit only increment at 4-5% on average.......

so, their winning factor will always be the cost-that-they-charge-customer. but when stronger elephant like ericsson willing to slash their price to match huawei's......i guess...huawei will face a huge retaliation....

be it economy crisis or not.......they will face bigger challenge starts 2009

It so happens that the economy crisis happened at 08Q4 where most companies do their budgeting. All managers will be very cautious on how they spend their money but for sure they will allocate some for CAPEX.

In a nutshell, the cake will be smaller but surely there will be a cake. Chinese vendors have always been very aggressive on pricing. During evaluation of a bid, pricing is a big factor and the financial crisis will magnify the weight that pricing carries. Hence, Huawei and ZTE's will have a better upper hand.

Many countries still don't have proper network infrastructure and the people is still asking for it. There are many untapped opportunities that operator would race to harvest. That will translate to CAPEX spendings.

To say Chinese vendors doing well only because of low cost is not fair. Huawei and ZTE do have decent products, many Tier 1 operator go through extensive trial before deciding to go with "dodgy" vendors.

I heard that Huawei is struggling to grow because their R&D is lacking.. and they have not come up with any new products that can rival the big boys.. esp. in the Internet routers and switches space. Last time, Huawei was caught stealing Cisco intellectual property and was sued by them and ultimately their products were banned from being sold in US. Sometimes, the 'pirate' mentality are still in the old guards of those from communist leadership who have formed this company.. maybe difficult to transform it into a name brand global/multinational organisation.

ZTE is in a better position of surviving because they have government backing.

Many telecoms vendor are feeling the pinch now. Nortel being one of the worst followed by Ericsson.

Australia was the other country which blocked Huawei from winning the national broadband network there. They claimed the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei was a Chinese military background man and it was dangerous to entrust their sensitive government information with the vendor.

Heard Huawei as got bad project delivery

huawei already global/multinational organisation..........

Hi,

After reading the latest posts, I am sooo negatively affected because I will be attending an interview next week for a post in HR..... Anybody can share with your opinion / view on Malaysia HuaWei HR department , system and people inside? (Sometimes people just hate HR Department).

Thanks a lot!.

Hi Calsha,

If the pay is good in HW, just take it. That's my suggestion. Make sure to ask for salary in higher range, i.e. in USD terms.

One thing is for sure, many Malaysians asked for salary in a lower range.... we somehow forgotten about globalization and that we are capable people in the work force.

Good luck in your interview!

i have interview experience with huawei.last time i go to Etiqa tower for interview..i dot get the job coz i dont have exprience in tat..now matter u excel in english u still cant get the job if u are not experience.so frustated..FYI tat post for fresh engineer..how come they want someone experience if that post for fresh?huawei is not a good company...u will be stressed working there

Asking to be paid in USD @ Huawei? You dream ler unless you're some CCIE with more than 5 years experience...and willing to work OT all week long.

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Added on March 10, 2009, 11:55 pmYou might have missed out a very important part in the job application form. Right next to your full name, there's this column which ask you to write your name in chinese characters. The HR recruiter treats this very seriously.

This post has been edited by thechetticompany: Mar 10 2009, 11:55 PM

Hi all,

I am with FORZA an Australian headhunting and executive search firm for the last 2 years, and before this i was working in Huawei as a Recruiter HQ in KL recruiting both for Malaysia and APAC as well, mostly for Huawei Malaysia candidates to go abroad on projects for APAC and also for global recruits as when required.

There is pros and cons working for Telco companies, you might hear or read of all sort of horror stories of company not expanding, cutting down headcounts and all, business gone bad ans bla bla bla... trust me, i have been in the recruitment industry for more than 6 years now, and one thing i have to make it clear to you is......

you cant compare a company to a another company of different background and culture and its economic growth, I say this is because you can never know what is going to happen with the current economy as there is no guarantee.

of the 4 major vendors in Malaysia, Huawei is the youngest of over 20 yrs of operations whereby the others has more than 50 years of history, they has just hit our land less than 10 yrs so lots to learn and improve and they are doing it day by today, i have close friends still working in there, if its not a good company i am sure everyone will be running right?


i did not have a Degree and i was rejected by them 3 times, i submitted again i didnt care, i was determined, i am Malay, i cant read Mandarin
I wanted Huawei because i know what i wanted, i wanted to have Asia Pacific recruitment experience to further help with my career growth

so its really depends on what you want...ya..sharing information is good, but dont be judgmental, u dont need that, its an opportunity for all to have certain exposure and experience.

I always tell the candidates who comes for an interview whether it is Huawei or not, never compared or have negative setbacks of the company, u come for the interview with a clear mission of what u want, is it the APAC exposure that you are looking for? is it a job opportunity, salary hike, fresh grad or you on a job shopping spree? you ask yourself

oh ya.. i am recruiting for various roles as well you may submit your resumes to me at dnorzana.forza.com.au or go to our website at www.forza.com.au.

Cheers,

no offense, i am just sharing my thoughts.

This post has been edited by mimipiggie: Mar 11 2009, 01:32 PM

fact? are you a insider ? if no then you shouldn't comment much bout their RnD. No new product to rival the big boys ? this is another big joke, HW packet core could easily pawn those so call big boy rival. Yeah yeah yeah router n switch again eh ? it's not HW main product and they dont give a damn on it. how much could a router/switch cost anyway ? 2k? 5k? 10k ?40k ? sheeesh do you even know how much does a core network, rnc, bts node-b n yada yada cost ?


fact ? this is a real world. bad/delayed delivery cause by tons of factors, you cant put the blame solely on a single party. Usually this kind of shit were cause by ... hmm $$ then those arrogant low level shithead from operator side which know nut's bout higher level issue went on spreading rumors like what i saw now =)


you were not hired because not that your english sarks, but your attitude sark. I have few "0" experience malay fresh grad under me and I'm so relief that you are not one of them because u cant even handle stress. You want no stress environment ? you should go start your own business or join GLC

this is another pure utter bullshit again

This post has been edited by nicotine: Mar 14 2009, 01:03 AM

I am ex-huawei I think attitude play an important role in Huawei.. and yeah, they do hire fresh graduate and those who don't know Mandarin as well

Frankly I think there are a lot of false rumors posted here about Huawei. If you think you heard something about the company, don't trust it. Do your own homework.

Here are some examples of false information being posted here:

1. "Huawei doesn't get government support"

Truth: Huawei is partly own by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a government institute. Huawei's chairman is currently a member of the Communist Party of China. As a "national champion" company Huawei has been getting tax break and incentives from the government of China.

2. "Huawei is losing ground to the big boys"

Truth: Did you know that Huawei used to be a supplier for Motorola? Now they're kicking Moto's ass. They're a supplier turn competitor company.

3. "I heard that Huawei's R&D hasn't come up with any new products and they're losing"

Truth: Huawei is the top patent applicant in China and the fourth in the world in 2007 according to WIPO PCT after Matsushita, Phillips and Siemens.

4. "Huawei lost the top spot for TD-SCDMA contract in China"

Truth: Actually this is true. ZTE is tops in China right now for 3G equipment. But the difference in their market share is like....1%.
FYI, Huawei won the most 3G network contact GLOBALLY in 2008, not just from developing countries but also from reputable companies like BT, Vodafone and T-Mobile . Over half of Huawei's revenue is derived from overseas. So look at the big picture!

So guys, please. Read information posted here with a grain of salt.

This post has been edited by chrishung: Mar 15 2009, 10:23 PM