Huawei is the second largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, behind only Sweden's Ericsson. It generated $32 billion in revenue last year, selling its networking technology to such global giants as Vodafone, Bell Canada and Telekom Malaysia, though only smaller U.S. carriers Leap and Clearwire use the company's gear. Huawei's heft has allowed it to pour resources into adjacent markets, such as mobile handset development and data center technology that's already paying off with new customers and billions more in revenue.
Unlike the manufacturing companies that many Westerners associate with this south China city that it calls home, Huawei develops products. (While it does some limited manufacturing, it mostly outsources that work.) Some 62,000 of the company's 140,000 employees work in research and development. Compare that to archrival Cisco, whose total payroll is 65,000 workers. And Huawei is a patent machine, with about 50,000 patents filed worldwide. Though accused years ago of pilfering the innovations of Cisco and others, Huawei gets credit these days for breakthroughs in complex technologies such as radio access networking that lets mobile carriers support multiple communications standards on a single network. It also pioneered the dongles that consumers slip into laptops to wirelessly connect to the Web.
Despite its Western-style workplace, as well as its growing business and technical prowess, Huawei can't seem to convince some key companies and governments in the West that it's a company with which they should do business. And it's not simply because Westerners have a hard time pronouncing its name. (It's WAH-way.)
From its website 'Huawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom carriers, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive ICT solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world's population.'
To get a contract job at Huawei at Santa Clara, CA, Plano, TX or China you will need to go through one of its approved IT staffing vendors that provide employment service to thousands of IT consultants, customer care professionals and Test Engineers. Most of its vendors are top China based IT services companies like Beyondsoft Consulting, Vance Info, etc.
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