Philips reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(10,505 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 10,505 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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1.0
Oct 13, 2016

Corporate refused to pay out bonuses

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Colleagues were great, that's about it.

Cons

First off, corporate refused to pay out a bonus earned for the year 2015 when I left in 2016 for a different job. They told me that "because I wouldn't be around when the bonuses would be paid out, I wasn't eligible". I was employed for 2013 to 2016. In their HR documentation, it states "Unless otherwise stated in this document, participants must be employed by Philips through December 31, 2015 to remain eligible to receive an award.". Management was good, though new managers weren't trained and did not know how to manage employees. Constant upper management turnover. Sales people would make sales without speaking to developers, making promises to customers that were not feasible with required testing. It was then the developers problem when it couldn't get completed. Poor direction from upper management, things that should have taken days to get resolved stagnated for weeks. Company spends more on making their offices look nice then keeping their employees happy.

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Philips Response
9y
Hello there, thank you for taking the time to write a review about the years you worked for Philips. We're sorry to hear your experience working at Philips was less than stellar. We take all feedback seriously. One point to clarify, is that in order to be eligible for any payment under this plan, the eligible employee must be on active payroll on date of pay-out. It seems you left before the date of pay-out. We thank you for your feedback and wish you the best of luck in your career.
1.0
Oct 5, 2016

Bully

Recommend
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Pros

Good people minus 1 manager

Cons

Bully manager who cornered you every week to listen to who was soon to be fired.

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Philips Response
9y
Hello, first we'd like to thank you for taking the time to write a review about your experience while working at our company. We do regret hearing that it was not a positive one and do hope you contacted your HR representative or the Ethics Hotline about it at the time. We also want to thank you for all the work you have done for our company and wish you all the best in your future career.
1.0
Oct 3, 2016

Good Compensation, Bad Culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation and benefits are good. Lots of employee activities

Cons

The company is too big for upper level leadership to hear your voice. Lack of 360 degree feedback.

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Philips Response
9y
Hi there. Thank you for providing your feedback concerning your current position within Philips, it’s great to hear from our own employees here. Although we believe it’s important that our employees value our compensation and benefits, we love that you mention other employee activities. Besides the work that is done at Philips, we want our employees to try new things, to experiment, to improve the way things are done. Being a company of international size and with such a great legacy, (Philips has been named to Thomson Reuters Global Top 100 Innovators list, is a leader on the Dow Jones sustainability Index and is one of the world’s most valuable brands.) we understand that management has to adapt to this international way of working. We want the ideas, knowledge, perspectives, experiences and styles of all our employees to be valued. We’re working on this every day, but if you ever feel like things can be done different and/or better, feel free to arrange a conversation with your manager to address these topics. Together with you, we hope to work towards a future filled with great opportunities.
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