Philips reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(10,500 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Philips has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,500 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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2.0
Feb 17, 2015
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Pros

Pay and Benefits are excellent and within line with other companies. The people on my team were for the most part excellent to work with and other teams in the building were by and far very helpful. The daily environment was good from a people perspective

Cons

Management or lack thereof. Unfortunately the company hires number crunchers instead of people who know the business. This leads to very short term thinking and managers only worried about fudging spreadsheets to make sure they get their bonus. Leads to frustration within the teams because policies are not good for the employees or the customer. The healthcare side of the company could be doing so much better if there was a common sense knowledge base of how to run things and what the customer actually wants and needs. Layoffs every year for the last number of years leads to high stress and it is turning into a bit of a protect myself and my knowledge situation and is limiting the helpful nature of teamwork

2.0
Jan 11, 2015
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Pros

The people were extremely nice to work with. Great team spirit that I still miss today.

Cons

Healthcare is a brutal bottom line business and Philips leads the way in cutting cost to profitability.

2.0
Dec 11, 2014

Low Dividends on Career Investment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I think if you don't mind working at the Corporate Offices you can do some great land grabs that are above your ability, education and experiences. I don't think the pay will be stellar, but often Philips hires those that speak well, are political savy and don't mind the concept of "faking it till they make it". If your looking for long term, the joke is that when you go through your 1st company car, you should start sending out resumes if your management... thats about 2 years.

Cons

Overly sensitive to honest conversation to a point where they really won't hold employees accountable for real world performance. They will metric you to death, but the statistical information they gather is strictly a CYA for management and the field easily manipulates the data to avoid being on managements radar (which they should.. non of the metrics really drive customer concerns). Philips history is to acquire #1 companies within their respective specialty, spend millions bringing them into the fold of Philips, only to see complete and utter disaster. ATL,Stentor, Agilent, ADAC..... just to name a few and they have all been literally ground up. The top is heavy with GE management that have been rejected by GE. Everyone knows how that goes. Once in, you can't get the rats off the ship and more just keep on coming via friends help friends. Middle management waters down the problems as the issues move upward. The Leaders on top love hearing it because now they can blame those below them for not giving them accurate info. Its a perfect storm for manipulation, lies and "do nothing" mentality which is why market share in all sectors has bottomed out and the company self closed two modalities recently.

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