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5.0
Sep 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent pay and benefits; great professional atmosphere. Great opportunity for a variety of assignments for technical professionals. The potential to have a meaningful impact on large, important projects. Good opportunity to travel. Lot of attention paid to the little details that make the work environment pleasant.

Cons

As with most large organizations, a fair amount of "flavor of the month" type quality and improvement campaigns that were done for the sake of doing them without any apparent benefit. Some disconnect between the various divisions that were legacy companies from previous mergers and buyouts. Business outlook is probably not good in their market sector for the foreseeable future.

3.0
Aug 18, 2014

Nice

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Pros

nice work experience and healthy environment which is positive

Cons

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4.0
Jun 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are great, people are great to work with. This company has a very professional atmosphere, gives free coffee. If traveling on a field assignment, the compensation is excellent (per diem and overtime). If all you do is field assignments you can make really good money. Travel, even when just an office engineer, can sometimes take you around the world! This is a multicultural company with people working together from Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland, and India all in the same office.

Cons

Collaboration between business groups is not good. Alstom doesn't advertise in the US, so anyone who doesn't know us won't know to look for us for turbine services. We have a solid customer base, but we don't increase it. If you stay in the office most of the time, you won't see overtime. Internal mobility is encouraged, but some departments have no path upward. You would have to move to a completely different department to expand your career path. Also training is limited to internal courses which aren't helpful unless all you aspire to do is to "conduct better meetings" or "improve powerpoint skills." Not hardly any training in engineer advancement. Work/life balance is only as good as your manager. There's no global policy on work/life balance. So you could have a boss that expects you to make up 1 hour if you have some personal business to take care of, or you could have a boss that isn't worried about every little hour and trusts you to get your work done. I've had both at this company.

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