Philips reviews

Unless you are a white, male from Europe, there is little chance for advancement. Strong "time served" mentality. Promotion is based almost solely on time with the company. Real aversion to making decisions. Everyone is involved in the discussions, but no one make the decisions. completely oblivious to their clients and the market.

Philips has poor operations, engineering, and accounting practices that undergo constant revision with little benefit at the customer level. Sense and Simplicity is a cruelly humorous slogan to most employees because it is in stark contrast to the way the business is actually run. I agree with another assessment on this site of Philips being a financial conduit to the motherland. That best explains many of the operations. Currently undergoing a sea change of the field operations, yet is reticent to adequately notify, train, and deploy these changes. This has lead, among other things. to a perception of a disingenuous upper management. Most of the new initiatives (additional nonproductive tasks) are being driven through the Customer Care Team channel, which is essentially a peer group. This seems highly inappropriate as it seems, once again, that management is abdicating the dirty work of their requisite function to the employees themselves.