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      HARMAN

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      3.8

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (5,946 total reviews)

      Christian Sobottka

      82% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      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 5,946 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
      2.0
      Mar 24, 2015

      Unsustainable. Organized chaos

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Populated with MOTIVATED people, who want to do a good job. Good pay (until you calculate the hourly rate). No comp time, despite 60+ hour weeks.

      Cons

      Like so many other reviewers, ZERO work-life balance (12+ hours days not uncommon), heavy and continuous workload. Harman is too successful (too many programs and not nearly enough staff to support ) and HR has not kept up with demand. Outsourcing is a problem, since the other employees are 12 hours opposite US schedule. Co-workers are frustrated and burned out.

      2.0
      Feb 7, 2015

      Needs vision

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cool products, smart people in the engineering and marketing levels. Great employee discounts on consumer products. Can be a good place for some career development if you don't stay too long.

      Cons

      No vision in executive leadership. Harman professes to be a technology leader that wants to attract and retain the best, but it's just lip service. Harman is a technology integrator with a stodgy east coast structure: no employee stock purchase plan, no bonus unless you are very high level, paltry stock grants and onerous vesting schedules. Compensation is based on class system, not merit: all the perks depend on you having "VP" in your title. Harman will implode unless the BoD wakes up and gets a CEO that has a vision for something more than making himself and his buddies wealthy while moving everything to India.

      1.0
      Jul 1, 2014

      Soulless Bloodsucking Corporation

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I am not stuck here forever

      Cons

      The CEO is a sociopath. He says "stay paranoid" in almost every corporate newsletter her sends out and uses fear tactics to motivate employees. I feel like I live inside of a Dilbert cartoon - it truly is that ridiculous. If you are smart and talented please stay away from this company, they will chew you up and spit you out. Harman will not be around in the long term because they only care about short term growth - everything is smoke and mirrors.

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