Philips reviews

While you're working on devices that improve people's lives, you're not really working on anything new/exciting. You're either working on maintaining existing products or developing "new products." New product development is pressured to reuse what was done in the past, and is largely driven by reaction to what competitors release instead of trying to get out ahead. Even after COVID, remote work is frowned upon and your career advancement opportunities are severely limited if you are a remote worker. Change is seen as bad and will meet strong resistance in favor of "doing it like we've always done it." They want to attract new talent but insist on using dated methods. Portions of the organization are very much a "good old boys" club that will not hesitate to blame others to advance their own interest. Constantly fighting fires and changing priorities. Communication is terrible with leaders in different parts of the organization delivering different, sometimes conflicting messages about any given topic. Communications are usually full of business buzzwords and a message of improvement but there's never any substance or action behind the message.

Speaking to the organization and not about the company. It is terrible. It is an abusive place to work with management that loves to micro-manage everything possible. I am not kidding I was asked to show how I have my email inbox set up. I would stay away from this job, I am actually trying to leave it as we speak. Work at Philips but never, ever take this job. They will sell you on how great it is and how "you'll run your own region" but they spend so much time hovering over that you don't run it at all. I have had some bad jobs in my life but this one takes the cake. The last one I would note, you have a ton of vacation at Philips but the management that runs this role basically won't allow you to use it sighting that "they cannot have more than two employees off a day" when there are 52 people split between two supervisors. Think about how many people take days off around national holidays... good luck because you have to compete with your co-workers now to even use that vacation.