Research In Motion Employer Reviews

I was involved in productization of many blackberries. I had the opportunity to work in various levels of software development life cycle and learn new technologies. I was given the opportunity to represent RIM in 3GPP global standards.

8+ hours expected although work/life is encouraged.

Always connected

The co-workers' believes seemed to be interesting. The most enjoyable part of the job was the work. The ice-cream was good.

I increased my ability to attention to details and learn more about blackberry devices.

Everyone is cooperative and my overall experience while working was pretty good

More to learn and clean work envoirnment. One of the leading company in telecommunication.

Learned lot of manufacturing
Learned about new Oracle technologies
Hardest part was lack of communication
Management had no management skills at all
Very technical management which did not help at all
No adequate career training or advancement.

the company is great job security will not get better untill the company does

-After so many layoffs customer support is incredibly short staffed
-Management expects twice as much work to be done in same amount of time
-Co-workers are eager to help

Very challenging now, but potential enough!
Typically very flexible beginning and ending time of work.
Lots of learned at BlackBerry Global Networks Operations.
Very kind and nice coworkers remembered.
Lots of work load and challenge to learn.
The most enjoyable part is the very friendly relationship with coworkers.

Research In Motion would be a the top of my list for an overall top notch place to work.

As an Executive Assistant, my regular duties consisted of management of schedules, travel, devices and projects to VP, direct reports and their teams.

By far the leadership / management was exemplatory, mentoring and the ability to take initiate and be a true – more... entrepenure was very much accepted and encouraged.

Being a team player and exceed customers service internally and externally was a high priority.

Ever changing priorities.

Atmosphere and co-workers was explemantory, very team oriented to work together in getting the job done. – less

its interesting work
lot of new thing to learn
and better opportunity of growth

• Implemented advanced problem solving to support maximum technical productivity of senior executives, external VIP’s, Board Members and Executive Assistants, through direct interaction, email and phone contact
• Worked daily with sensitive, high security level data and maintained top level secrecy

*Great place to work
*learned a lot about the Blackberry Family

A typical day of work involved creating surveys, analyzing user feedback, generating reports and shipping and distributing BlackBerry 10 devices and accessories. I learned a great deal about identifying and reporting software bugs, quality control within the technology industry and project management. Both management and co-workers were wonderful. I – more... regularly synced with my Team Lead to ensure my experience at RIM (now BlackBerry) was both challenging and rewarding. As many projects were completed concurrently and had competing deadlines, exceptional time management skills were a must. The most enjoyable part of working with RIM was the atmosphere as everyone on my team was extremely passionate about the new devices. Testing pre-release devices was pretty exciting as well. – less

A typical day was 12 hour shifts contanental.
How to program devices and packing them
The management was great.
Co - workers were a great team.
The hardest part of the job was workinf 12 hour days.

Working in a healthy environment with a group of coworkers. Every day was a new challenge for me, working on a different project. Always demanding, and i enjoined fast past and demanding schedule. The hardest part was, many times was required to work overtimes on weekend. Management was reasonable and open minded. I have learned, if you work hard it – more... will always be opportunity to grow. – less

RIM is overall a nice place to work if you have a secure job, otherwise you'll be worried about losing your job each week. The co-workers are friendly and it is a pretty flexible work environment, however there is a lot of bureaucracy which prevents you from doing much work. Also there is a lot of internal secrecy employees are kept in the dark about – more... a lot of things and don't have any idea whats happening in other areas of the company. – less

RIM has been a great company to work for, providing lots of opportunity for growth, career advancement.

It was a great learning experience. I loved the job I had. I got to work with some amazing people.