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      HARMAN

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      HARMAN reviews

      3.8

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (5,947 total reviews)

      Christian Sobottka

      81% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      HARMAN has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,947 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HARMAN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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      6K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 9, 2013

      The Devil You Know

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      talented, passionate people. great benefits. great products.

      Cons

      it's a big corporation. things move slowly. you have to deal with internal, division, and corporate politics. Too many rounds of layoffs after Americans have trained their low cost counterpart in India and China. Little to no push for innovation. corporate push to centralize everything is leading to a homogenization of iconic audio brands. Continue to push jobs out of the US. CEO has been overheard saying that India is the future center of engineering because American engineers are lazy.

      1.0
      Oct 4, 2013

      Cash Cow for the cynical CEO and his selected "yes" men!

      Senior design engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      In 2009/2010 I would have give Harman 4 or 5 stars. The company *was* good to work for before Sidney Harman died - plenty on training and encouragement, quality & performance of the products was paramount. Unfortunately this very quickly disappeared once the company's founder passed away, and the current CEO was give free reign.

      Cons

      Upper management - especially the uppermost management. The CEO's knee jerk reaction to a profits warning in late 2012 resulted in the majority of R&D talent of the organisation being stripped away to "save cost" and artificially increase profits. European Engineers and technicians with decades of experience were turfed out, with the master-plan of replacing them with inexperienced Chinese engineers This will enable a temporary increase in dividends for the shareholders over the next couple of years - this apparent turnaround is, of course, being spun as the genius of the CEO - NOT SO! My prediction is that the CEO will be surreptitiously selling off his shares over the next 18 months or so - capitalizing on the artificial inflation of the share price, before the removal of the organizations life blood starts to tell.

      5.0
      Sep 29, 2013

      Excellent Company to Work for.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      *Great opportunity to work for legendary brands. *Transparency in Management.

      Cons

      *************************No cons that I have felt so far******************************************

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