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Good people, very loyal, vertically movement very slow
Manager (Current Employee), Kitchener, ON –
Pros: good perks
Cons: always connected based on the blackberry
Learned that a siloed company will lose its ability to be nimble
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Great Benifits Plan
Legal Assistant- Corporate Legal Team (Current Employee), Waterloo, ON –
Pros: benifits plan
Cons: poor job security
Company assists with paying gym membership

New, up-to-date facilities and equipment
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Excellent, progressive place
Customer Quality Manager (Former Employee), Waterloo, ON –
Pros: advancement, great milieu, excellent salary and benefits, telecommute option
I spent over 5 years at RIM and they were the best 5 years of my working life. The milieu is great, work is plentiful and the people are the best!
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about RIM
Data Network Specialist, Security (Former Employee), Waterloo, ON –
the work I had in RIM is less pressure and less challenge, that's why I left.
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A wealth of experience, useful and not so useful
Technical Writer (Former Employee), Waterloo, ON –
Pros: fitness and health allowance as part of benefits, employee assistance program available, casual dress in most departments, attention to ergonomics at workstations, bonuses, and free tickets to rock concerts
Cons: constant upheaval, managerial mediocrity, insensitive human resources department, lack of vision from the upper ranks
A typical day at work in the former Content Development Services business unit involved the writing and publishing of training documentation. The Instructor Led Training, Webinars, Web-based Training, user guides, reference manuals, video scripts, and other documents our unit delivered were used within the organization, with carrier-partners as part – more...  of New Product Support Readiness, and with product end users. A project could range from requiring a few hours of work before submission to the editing team, to being months in duration with heavy consultation of subject matter experts and potentially delivering a User Acceptance Trial. When I started, the review and publication of support articles for the internal and external knowledge base was something everybody did for at least an hour every day. Timewise, the expectation was that the salary amount was for a minimum 40-hour week, Monday to Friday, and if a deadline was urgent, you stayed until the work was done. A repercussion I observed was that co-op placement students and young, single employees were favoured over older employees who wanted or required work-life balance. Management did not seem particularly motivated or focused, and promotion seemed more based upon who than what candidates knew - of a half-dozen managers to whom I reported, about two seemed truly appropriate as people leaders. My co-workers were second-to-none - bright, creative, hard-working innovators to a person, good-humoured and pleasant, and really the strength of the organization. The hardest part of the job was not becoming disillusioned by constantly shifting project and organizational demands, and a tendency to have meetings for the sake of having meetings. The most enjoyable part of my work there was the interaction with great people in an environment that was conducive, almost until the end, to the production of high quality work. – less
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Great work atmosphere
Radio Validation Engineer (Intern) (Current Employee), Durham, NC –
Nice boss, nice co-workers. Learn a lot. Love the feeling of solving a specific problem.
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fun workplace
Radio Frequency Research Assistant (Former Employee), Waterloo, ON –
RF hardware and design
innovative designers
challenging work at every step
flexible work hours
white boards where ideas take shape
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Great work culture
Developer (Current Employee), Waterloo, CN –
Great work culture, decent working hours, flexible timings, can be technically challenging provided you are in the right team. The layoffs are demoralizing but every company has it's ups and downs.
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Awesome
Mobile Test Specialist (Co-op) (Current Employee), Seattle, WA –
It's a life time experience for me, the people are really cool to work with.
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Great Friendly workplace, Ice Cream Fridays (Summer)
IT Desktop Support Specialist (Former Employee), Waterloo Ontario Canada –
Pros: ice cream fridays, great people
Cons: drive to work (living an hour away)
I enjoyed my co-op term at RIM, met a lot of people and grew as a person and an employee
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Limited growth opportunities
Sales (Former Employee), Waterloo –
Pros: great product
Cons: you either have micro managers, or ones that don't show up or communicate
Company struggles with communication interanlly. Pay structures are constantly changing with no assurance you will be paid what you think you earned.
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Exceptional co-workers, knowledgable and hard working teams in both design and R&D, life changing experience
Mechanical Design Co-op (Former Employee), Sunrise, FL –
Learned a great amount of knowledge for CAD designing, testing, research and development, and analysis from hard working and driven co-workers. Assisted in holding meetings with suppliers and mechanical teams worldwide in product qualification testing and manufacturing processing.
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concerned – January 11, 2012

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Receiving and Shipping is excellent system
Cambridge (Cherry Blossom) (Former Employee), Warehouse Operator –
RIM is excellent to work. I really enjoyed and leaned lots of thing. Work environment is very friendly.
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About Research In Motion

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications – Read more