ALSTOM reviews

2.5

29% would recommend to a friend

(3,110 total reviews)
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Henri Poupart-Lafarge

94% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

ALSTOM has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The ALSTOM employee rating is 29% below average for employers within the Transport & Logistik industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Jun 24, 2015

Hostile

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Pros

Steady job.. and you can keep fairly regular hours.

Cons

Hostile work environment. Management micro manages and focuses on "relationships over results". Basically this means that if you do a good work but someone who has a better 'relationship' with your boss says you don't, you're in for an uphill battle. I personally found ALSTOM in Bellevue to e one of those most hostile work environments I had ever been in. People don't even say good morning to you in the halls or make eye contact with you.

3.0
Dec 30, 2015

Changes with GE merge

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Pros

Vacation time is long compared to other companies. Start with 3 weeks and go up to 6 weeks. 401K is good.

Cons

R&D team is not doing the real R&D, just the basic platform and UI features. Low salary, no stocks. Most people have no career path especially with the GE transition.

1.0
Jul 20, 2022

Absolute worst company I have worked for in my entire life.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive salaries Good benefits Flexible working hours

Cons

This is for the BPLRT project. Upper management loops every team into the same meetings almost every day. Meetings of 30+ people are the norm, while everyone is expected to explain intricate technical details to everyone else. Expect to spend half your day listening to problems that aren't related to your work. Absurd amount of politics due to the blame shifting culture caused by upper management. Sarcasm is the usual way of conveying displeasure. Extremely unprofessional mannerisms are tolerated. Multiple project delays are causing the upper management to constantly chase you for deadlines and expect the impossible. High turnover rate, resulting in blurred job roles due to poorly formed JDs and panic hiring. Some vital engineering functions have 0 manpower working on it "because the person working on it left". Expertise knowledge is spread throughout multiple countries. Usually this isn't a problem, but relationships between the local and foreign teams are extremely bad due to upper management micromanaging their idea of "escalation" to foreign bosses. Expect no support from offshore even with "escalation".

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