Opnext Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Opnext full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Reasonable work hours and flexible work hours

Cons – No career growth and directions from senior management is often unclear

Advice to Senior Management – Need to delegate decision making further down the management chain of control

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Engineers are allowed to express their creativity

Cons – Not the market leader in their field

Former Employee – worked at Opnext

Pros – Great group of skilled engineers

Cons – Inability of upper management to define a clear strategy

Advice to Senior Management – Advice to new Oclaro mgmt- provide a clear vision and product direction to business development and engineering team

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

Former Employee – worked at Opnext

Pros – Technology leadership in optical networking gave them the edge in recruiting & retaining key talent. They offer an end-to-end solution from component to line cards, pushing the edge of possibilities in optical networking.

Cons – Lack of strategic vision. Inability to effectively communicate and execute organizational goals. Doesn't hold leaders or individual contributors accountable for performance and promotes incompetent performers to leadership positions.

Advice to Senior Management – Listening to brown nosers will eventually result in what it smells like... Focus on results, not politics and the company could be a market leader again.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Opnext

Pros – It was great and declined, unskillful technical management

Cons – Need a job, poor management technical skills

Advice to Senior Management – Hand on on issues and long term strategy

Current Employee – been working at Opnext

Pros – Working on cutting edge optical technology is a challenge and a lot of fun. Small company atmosphere makes it easy to learn about many aspects of the business.

Cons – Business model is not good. Margins are bad. Competition is intense. Losing market share. Japan-USA tensions are high and cooperation is almost non-existent, if not hostile.

I don't see this company being one of the winners in the coming optical component consolidation.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a way to make high-performing employees want to stay.
Find a way to differentiate the products from the competition.
Hold sales team accountable for their targets.
Fix the Japan-USA rift or else close down one of the sites.
Do you really need an office in NJ?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend