Motorola is an "engineering and product-oriented" company that encourages "creative solutions to difficult problems." While those in finance and marketing sometimes feel that the technical staff keeps them "at arm's length," everyone appreciates the "prestige of working for a company whose name transcends language barriers." Employees say that Motorola's decentralized organization "occasionally causes communication difficulties" but also "allows for a significant degree of departmental autonomy without excessive red tape." The state of employee/management relations "varies by business unit. The larger business units tend to follow very antiquated [models]." One former marketing rep was impressed with the somewhat hands-off approach the company took with those in the trenches I was in a relatively small unit and it was very entrepreneurial, but since the company is so big and we had sales teams all over the world, you always had the feeling of working for a small company." Another aspect of Motorola this contact appreciated was that although there are a number of sales teams all trying to sign up new clients, as part of a big company, it was a very cooperative environment. One drawback, according to another contact, is that many units in the company tend to have a fairly large percentage of long-time employees who were not as dynamic as younger, or newer employees. "There's this unwritten 10-year' policy where after 10 years at the company, you really can't get fired unless you do something drastic. They just don't fire you after that, instead, if there's problem they try to relocate you in the company." Regardless of this, this contact admitted that their relationship with managers was very open door, they were always open to suggestions.