Philips reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(10,486 total reviews)
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Roy Jakobs

74% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Philips has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,486 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Philips 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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10K reviews
2.0
Aug 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Large organization, opportunity to make big impact to global healthcare Experienced workforce

Cons

Highly political Weak and uninspiring leadership, concerned mainly about their job security, penalize progressive thinking, lack of support and development of talent employees. Honest hard working and innovative thinking talent gets outmaneuvered and replaced by less skilled political players. Company losing market share, frequent layoffs caused chronic employee anxiety around job safety and encouraged political behaviors, removed Employee Engagemet Survey, lack of 360 employee feedback for leaders Average employee age is 50+ Gloomy mood in the hallways Middle management talent with MBA degrees all left. Culture doesn't like doing things differently and doesn't embrace new ways of thinking. Lack of workforce diversity, foreign cultures and new ways of thinking at a disadvantage

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Philips Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time to write an extensive review about your work experience at Philips. We're grateful you've been part of the Philips family for more than a decade. As a Marketing Professional you contributed to our visibility on the global Healthcare market. It's helpful to us that you've pointed out the aspects of our work culture that need improvement. As market leaders we are continually challenging the status quo, launching new products and breaking new ground. We have done so for over 125 years. Our ambition is to capitalise on our position as market leaders to bring new and innovative solutions to some of the world’s most challenging issues in healthcare. We’re not always perfect, but we have an unwavering passion to make a wide scale, meaningful impact on the world with some of the most cutting edge technologies on the market. Although we're a fast-paced company, we do care for our employees and we try to offer them the best work-life balance possible. Our structure allows for long term career mobility across business groups, applications, projects and geographies. We have a People Performance Management which supports everyone at Philips to improve performance and raise the bar on their personal contribution to our success. In these and other ways we try to attract new talent and encourage our current employees to work on their personal and professional well being. Thank you for your service for all those years at our Philips office in Bothell. We wish you all the best in your future life and career.
2.0
Jan 26, 2015

Philips Healthcare not all its cracked up to be.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is plenty of work developing medical equipment. Philips had a strong brand in clinical healthcare at one time but it is fading quickly. The pros: 1. The name Philips. 2. Some really great people work there, great minds. 3. Andover site is very nice to work at, even has a gym for employees and a huge cafeteria.

Cons

Philips has layoffs roughly every six months, sometimes three times a year. There is little job security. The vacancies following job layoffs are filled by politically connected (friends with the senior leadership with demoted senior management people who then resign due to the demotion. It is a downward spiral to be wary of. GE products are taking off right now in the clinical space. There are very few clinical people, if any, left at Philips who actually can provide clinical knowledge and clinical use to a product. The engineers have no idea how a product is used clinically. It is amazing any products actually work. The team work has deteriorated and many folks there are just trying to keep there jobs. I am thankful to be out of Philips. If you have a job decision to make, work somewhere else.

2.0
Nov 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

A profitable company with good growth and revenues

Cons

The president of our >$1B group is called a Category Leader and visits for 3 years before moving onto their next career move within Philips. There is no culture or continuity and they panic every year when Q1 revenues are seasonally low.

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Philips Response
6y
Thank you for your review on here. By the sounds of it you see opportunities that aren't capitalized on enough in your opinion. A change might not be the easiest to bring about, but if you have any feedback or ideas on how to do things better, I'd like to encourage you to talk with the managing personnel - certainly given your long experience working with us.
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