Training & Personal Development at Ericsson

Degreed is a terrible primary resource for people to learn from, especially when you are new the industry. If I had a dollar for every time some HR/training person said "have you tried degreed" when I've made suggestions/complaints about training and development at Ericsson, I wouldn't have to work anymore. It is impossible to learn from unless you already understand 75% of the content. The senior engineers that we are supposed to learn from either don't have the time or the teaching skill set to train us, it is very frustrating.

Very few graduates enter with industry experience/skills. The skills you learn will depend on the team you are put in and how prepared they are to train newcomers. I was enrolled in formal training for 5G and Kubernetes.

All of the training is virtual and is very difficult to stay engaged and retain information.

Its all online and very interactive web based tutorials that help test your knowledge.

The formal training can be hit or miss. Some courses I have done have proved extremely valuable, both technical and non-technical (how to deal with tricky customers and get the most out of customer engagements, for example), while others is just staring at slides for a few days without really absorbing much knowledge. Non-formal OTJ training has proved to be the way I learn best. When I first joined this was excellent; I had a buddy and worked closely with experts in my project and gained a lot of knowledge very quickly. This ended abruptly with the advent of covid and hasn't really resumed; leaving me to have to figure things out myself more often than not.

There are training programs and development platforms (Degreed), but it is largely up to the employee to put in extra effort to skill up. Sometimes, we get asked to work on new tech/projects without the necessary skills to actually do the work. In these cases, we have to learn on the job, and often "rote learn" the tasks relevant to the project. This leads to a lack of understanding and deep insight, which will come into play when things go wrong and require troubleshooting/debugging.

I am a huge fan of Ericsson training material as well as the content available on our CPI store. Lately, I have attended a few soft skill trainings that were held from India, and I could clearly see a decline in the content quality and even more so in the content delivery. I think we should keep our training hubs in the West.

training is done on ad-hoc basis, there's no standard or targeted training for graduates and YPs

Most of the formal training consist of online training videos, and they are very dry while the informal/on the job training is unstructured.

Many training related to 5G, and shadowing another colleague while they perform work duties.

Informal and on the job training has been the best source of training and learning. As for the formal training such as Degreed, most of the pathways are either the same content you've already been over or topics that seem to be dull and complex to the point where you're unsure whether you have learnt anything from attending them and are also unsure on whether they will be beneficial to your career goals