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The best part about working for Zebra Technologies includes:

1. Innovative Culture: Zebra Technologies is known for being at the forefront of technology in sectors like IoT, mobile computing, and data analytics. Employees are often engaged in cutting-edge projects with impactful solutions.
2. Collaborative Environment: The company promotes teamwork and cross-functional collaboration, making it easy for employees to learn from each other and advance their skills.
3. Professional Growth Opportunities: Zebra encourages continuous learning and development, offering resources for skill enhancement and career progression within the company.
4. Strong Values and Purpose: Many employees appreciate the focus on empowering businesses with technology that optimizes operations, enhances worker productivity, and improves decision-making.
5. Global Impact: Working with clients across various industries and around the world means employees have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on a global scale.
6. Commitment to Work-Life Balance: Zebra Technologies often offers flexible schedules, remote work options, and wellness initiatives to support employee well-being.
7. Focus on Diversity and Inclusion: Zebra has made strides in building a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming workplace, fostering a culture that values different perspectives.

Each of these aspects combines to create a supportive, challenging, and rewarding work environment.


The "day in the life of" a Zebra Credit Analyst II Representative is very demanding.  Your day begins with a review of the previous days activities; follow up with accounts where additional collection activity is required, call back customers who had other order-related issues with resolution or to let them know you are still working on their issue, review internal emails for follow up with sales, account managers, customer service representatives, etc. 

The next phase of your day is the review of the "orders on hold report".  Information from this report is reviewed to determine if orders should be released for specific accounts.  In conjunction with the "orders on hold report" is the use of the "over the credit line report".  Customer's credit lines are reviewed in relation to their open invoices and future orders to determine if current orders in the system can be released without carrying the customer over their credit line.

The rest of the day is spent contacting customers for past due monies and performing other tasks (like credit revisions processing) as assigned by management.

Management and co-workers are a thrill to work for and with. There's never a dull moment. 

The hardest part of the job is the push to meet quarter-end collections goals. However, the goals are often met which is the most enjoyable part of the job outside of delighting each customer.

- Extensive experience with injection molded plastic, die-casting, machined and stamped metals.
- Utilized rapid prototyping methods to expedite the construction of working models within tight time frames.
- Developed new products from concept to production. Responsible for prototyping, testing, issuing test reports, and releasing for production.
- Designed cost effective, manufacturability parts and assemblies as exemplified in the design of printer enclosures made from pre-painted steel, saving $10 in product cost over traditional powder coated design.
- Executed product concept sketches, detailed drawings, and final assembly layouts including reverse engineering.
- Prepared Bills of Materials for new and existing product designs.
- Performed tolerance analysis for mechanisms and chassis components.
- Resolved manufacturing, inspection, and vendor issues as related to piece part and product design, resulting in cost savings and timely project completion.
- Interfaced with Purchasing and Production Control to ensure timely parts procurement for breadboard, prototype, and production. 
- Skilled Project Manager charged with coordinating all disciplines and outside firms through project development and product design.
- Experienced in designing protective packaging for product shipment.
- Experienced in ANSYS Design Space software.

Zebra technologies has two separate cultures. There are people that want to move toward the future, and there are those happy to live off the past. The organization is extremely top-heavy, with layers upon layers of managers that don't seem to contribute to the overall goal. They just spend most of the day in meetings, deciding what to tell other, more capable people to do. No kidding: middle managers (of which there are many) can have calendars entirely full for all of the 40-60 hrs. per week they work, but if you ask any of them what's REALLY going on with development - software, hardware, etc. - most of them just don't know. They pay lip service to whatever the latest initiative is, but they don't actually operationalize those goals. They keep making the stuff they always made. While there are pockets of people really doing fine work, the view from the trenches was that most of that stuff never really sees the light of day. 

I work with many smart people, lead by Manager's that do not understand what we do, do not listen to problems that need addressing, show favoritism, only look at numbers rather to actually see the overall value an individual provides to the company. 
When I started working here we were real skilled Technicians, now we swap out plastic and "sketchy PCBs repaired off-site" and the devices just have to last a period before it comes back to "repair" again. The vast majority of people I worked with when I started are gone replaced with young adults(if you can build Lego you can work here as a tech don't let the work description scare you).
Overtime is not optional,it is mandatory 10h 6d a week often a 6month stretch, if you have a day off eg x-mas they will work you overtime, it's not a day off, more like hours shuffled around. If you work nights, you are responsible for days mess and anything that goes wrong or missing, days always takes priority but "by the numbers" does only half the workload of night shift.
Benefits are good. Pay fair (w/o OT not enough), They treat you like a kid. No work/life balance.

Great company and good position.  The presentation of new ways of distributing products and handling competitors, vendors and dealers was new and interesting to me.  I've learned a lot there, despite of the short period of time we've worked together.

Most of the channel market activities to Latin America were coordinated by its sales force, which was based in Miami. The costs to maintain marketing communications and promotions coordination in California became too high.  The position was transferred to Miami and the project was interrupted.

The good part is that during this short period of time I was awarded with the appreciation of the Latin American distributors and vendors, and provided some improvements for the co-op funds reimbursement system.  The result of this was salary raise on my first review.

It was really a pity that I couldn't relocate to stay "with the crew".

Zebra was a wonderful place to work, with good people and positive attitudes.  I have learned a lot over the ten years I was with the company.  I started out as an Executive Assistant but several years ago, moved up to the role of Business Analyst working with the Supply Chain organization.  During my time in this role, I learned a lot and especially more advanced skills in Excel.  I took on a lot more responsibility in this role, handling multiple projects at a time.  I built very strong relationships not just within the Zebra organization but outside the organization as well, these relationships were primarily with our supply base, most of which were in Asia. I was fortunate to travel to China to visit suppliers and handled the coordination of a large scale supplier summit every year in China.

Overall, I only have good things to say about Zebra and had a positive experience working for them, if there was one small negative thing to mention is that Zebra are outsourcing many of their jobs to other countries, primarily Asia, thus many good people are losing their jobs because of this.

From an engineering perspective it was a fine place to work. I would have retired from here however my positions was "transitioned" to Mexico. I accept that it was a business decision and don't blame anyone there. I really enjoyed the challenge of my job, developing automated test systems for manufacturing. However there was pressure to deliver on time and to have the system perform well with test requirements, cycle times, cost and reliability all playing a part. Management did have an open door policy and you could approach anyone for help or advice and receive it either from that person or be guided to someone who could help. The engineering staff was always willing to help and collaborate on a solution. The cross functional teams assembled for each project were fun to work with. Of course,at times, there are were some people that were difficult to work with but in general everyone on the project wanted it to succeed and would do whatever it took to see that happened.

Working for Zebra is fun and challenging - in my role, every day is something new and challenging. From the moment you arrive you begin answering emails, providing quotes, dealing with quality issues and tracking customer orders. Aside from that, you are working in cross-functional teams on big projects like new printer platforms or new media release. 
The culture at Zebra is amazing! We all work under a common goal and upper management does a great job of letting us know what's new, where we're headed and what actions we're taking to get there. A few positions at Zebra are stressful but the pay and benefits are also great. Unless we're going through a cost cutting exercise, Zebra is pretty stable to work for.
The most challenging part of my job is just the pace at which we're expected to work at. Too many things to do and not enough resources or time to get it all done at times. Keeping open communication about your priorities and the things you are working on with your boss is probably the best way to stay out of trouble.

Was employed at a small company "MSSI" for several years.  Zebra Technologies courted the company for sale due to the development of several active UWB RFID tagging systems.  The Zebra management set unrealistic goals as conditions of sale, pressured the owner to low ball the sale, then proceeded to execute a plan to replace management and cut all non essential staff.  Luckily they cut the engineering staff first and many of us moved on to more rewarding positions at better companies.  That does not excuse the lack of good faith negotiations and under handed practices utilized by the management at Zebra.

Please beware - This is their business model and it continues everyday.  Acquired divisions are dismantled every quarter in order to manipulate their stock so insiders can profit monthly.  If your company is about to be purchased by Zebra - expect to experience the same in less than three months.  They have a long track record of destroying good companies for profit!

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