Pros
- Great products that are the gold standard in their industries - Many smart, hard working and talented coworkers (among the engineers) - Compensation and benefits were okay for me (good 401k match and we also had a quarterly bonus), but varies between teams - Reasonable work-life balance (again, may vary between teams) - Some semblance of career advancement within the company, albeit more limited than most would like - The Siemens brand name does carry some prestige in certain countries
Cons
- The company is clearly run by leadership that are sales and finance people, what that means is that when deals are closed the sales person gets all the credit and everyone else who worked hard behind the scenes (product managers, pre-sales engineers, product developers, etc.) are ignored and get no credit - Likewise, sales always gets top priority for budgets and all company policies conveniently benefit sales people the most - IT is a mess, software engineers couldn't even get internal licenses to use our own company's software products - Siemens doesn't really make its own software products and instead just acquires companies everywhere, resulting in a chaotic company org structure and messy operations - Lots of outdated legacy systems and processes, for example even now everyone has a "ugs.com" email address in certain systems even though UGS was acquired by Siemens back in 2007! - Overall engineers and other "regular" employees (basically anyone non-sales) are not appreciated by senior leadership - Things used to be better but have gotten worse in recent years which is a real shame because Siemens does have some major positives (see above)