Motorola Solutions reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(4,750 total reviews)
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Gregory Q. Brown

91% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Motorola Solutions has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,750 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Motorola Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Apr 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Very motivated, inspiring coworkers. Devs have good control over what they work on, provided it brings value to the business. Stepping out of your comfort zone is encouraged. Management is older, have families, so work-life balance is much better than some other software shops. Gorgeous views of the sound.

Cons

Ever since the MSI acquisition there has been a lot of red tape to navigate. Small shop feel is in jeopardy with corporate control. Ten years of legacy code that hasn't been adequately maintained. Business pushed half-cocked agile methodology on dev, resulting in unhappy old-timers and inconsistent, ineffective process. Not a lot of upward mobility.

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3.0
Jul 14, 2025

Too corporate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not micromanaged Workload is somewhat manageable Coworkers are amazing

Cons

Way too corporate, we are not guaranteed yearly raises for some reason even though we are constantly improving and learning new skills. Also, in this economy why aren't cost of living wage increases being considered yearly? They put an indefinite halt on out merit program, which is the only possibility we get to getting a raise and they halted 401k match in the heat of the tarrif nonsense due to "economic uncertainty" and here with are with a fine economy and the tariffs are a thing of the past. GIVE US OUR BENEFITS!!!! We are already over worked and underpaid, WE WANT OUR RAISES!!!! This is a billion dollar company, invest in your quality employees and stop outsourcing employees from Mexico to save a quick buck.

2.0
May 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

+ Good work life balance (as long as you're willing to refuse being voluntold to do things) + unlimited pto

Cons

+ terrible salary across the board and merit bonuses are a joke that don't come close to making up the difference one would make at any other company this size (this is especially true at senior levels, where you start to be forced to pull hours outside of 9-5 for the amount of money one makes as an SDE1 at most companies these days) + bigotry of all kinds is very common depending what department you find yourself in (over my time in the company I heard everything from a minority coworker's name mocked to his face to rampant misogyny and transphobia) + probably varies across the company but the tech stack is incredibly antiquated in spots, to the extent that I worked on code that was written before I was born (sometimes by people who were still with the company)

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