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Yeah, Ericsson employs about 13,000 people in Sweden and I personally know they develop a lot of telco software.

• squarefoot 5y ago
  My latest news (~2 yrs ago though) from friends working at Ericsson is that beside hardware they also started outsourcing software to far east entities. I don't have details, but over here they sack about 300 people every year, mostly developers. It might be different in Sweden though.
  • BenjiWiebe 5y ago
    How many do they hire per year? 400?
    • Jolter 5y ago
      Ericsson has hired several thousand engineers per year in the past couple of years, globally. You can see the history of their Wikipedia page for the nitty-gritty...
    • squarefoot 5y ago
      No idea, and Covid may have changed things, however pretty much every year he feared to be included in the list of people that had to go either directly or through a fake spin off, a common trick used by many corporations to lay off workers.
  • Jolter 5y ago
    If by Far East you mean China, I’m not aware of any outsourcing there at all. Ericsson has big R&D centers there but I believe they are all in-house operations, owned and controlled directly by Ericsson. Now, India on the other hand...