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Motorola Poland

Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business practices and pioneering important innovations that make things smarter and life better.

Motorola established its Polish presence in 1992, when it opened an office in Warsaw with 10 employees. Six years later, Motorola opened its Kraków office with 12 employees, a first step in establishing a substantial operation as part of the company’s Global Software Group (GSG). Today, Motorola employs 280 people in Poland, including both the Warsaw and Kraków locations.

Direct investment

The Motorola Polska Software Center launched in 1998 is one of the 19 centers within Motorola’s Global Software Group. The Center, located in the Kraków Technological Park, develops software for Motorola’s wireless devices, telecommunications and public safety systems, web networks, and software engineering tools. Motorola presently employs over 230 persons in Krakow and expects eventually to employ up to 500 software engineers. Motorola’s total investment has been US$ 10M.

In January 2002 the Software Center was assessed at SEI Maturity Level 5, the highest possible maturity level of software development, as defined by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Motorola is the first company in Poland to achieve this prestigious rating.

Strategic Programs

Motorola’s strategy in Poland involves supplying top-quality products and services as well as cooperating with local governments, companies and scientific communities. Motorola’s customers in Poland include telecommunications operators, public safety agencies, cable television networks, semiconductor manufacturers, transportation companies, and financial institutions.

Motorola understands the importance and benefits of joint ventures. For 10 years Motorola has had a 38% stake in Uninet Trunking Operation, which allows the company to offer the best solutions to its clients.

Motorola University has transferred four courses on manufacturing know-how to Warsaw Technical University, using University lecturers to teach the courses to Polish supplier candidates. Based on the materials from these courses, the University subsequently created two new courses for its undergraduate engineering students.

Motorola believes that training and education play an integral part in potential employee development. Three years ago, Motorola introduced project “Diversity“- a very successful educational program aimed at increasing gender diversity among future software engineers. The project is designed to encourage young people, and girls in particular, to consider pursuing computer studies and to show them the advantages of work in this field.

Motorola has also donated modern laboratory equipment and grants to Polish universities including Warsaw, Gdańsk, Łódź, Wrocław and Kraków Universities of Technology, the University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.