Pros
Great products, great history, great people. Sad to leave those things in 2016. Many remaining North America-based employees are loyal to a fault. There is great opportunity to learn how to think under pressure and develop meaningful and creative workarounds for process gaps and language barriers created from outsourcing, insourcing, and offshoring. This company offers the opportunity to develop of both a thick skin and a tolerance for ineptitude that is rivaled by none. Someday, the sum of these actions will make a great business case of how not to add sustainable shareholder value to a business. Fortunately, membership to the Good old boys' Club is too high for most to afford allowing most employees to keep their souls when they leave for the day.
Cons
No 401K. 0% - 2% raises. Lower-than-market salaries. If you're not a VP your compensation will not keep up with inflation. The company is making significant changes to its culture and identity which are difficult for some older employees to process. It is most likely for that reason that there has been a concerted effort to target these veterans for reduction in one of the lesser-than thinly veiled examples of age discrimination in the U.S. market. With such a brain-drain on the company, and a renewed focus on growing the top line, it's interesting to note that there are very few people left that understand how the company works operationally which means, while the top line is getting attention, the bottom line is getting neglected. Senior management is the clueless in this regard and it shows every time they publicly speak. They continue to chase margins by reducing cost in the form of shedding experienced workers. Motorola Solutions is trying very hard to become a software company but still has most of its knowledge base invested in hardware. Acquisitions aside, organic growth is all but impossible due to price ceiling issues with current hardware and owning significant market share. The investor gods don't like that and management seeks to please them by sacrificing ever-more valued staff and replacing them with enthusiastic third party employees who need coaching from the now missing experienced employees. It's a vicious circle that continues to diminish in size and importance.