Siemens reviews

4.3

85% would recommend to a friend

(11,626 total reviews)
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Roland Busch

98% approve of CEO

92% positive business outlook

Siemens has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 11,626 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Siemens employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Mar 7, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are okay although retirement packages offered to European employees is off-limits to US employees. Involvement with state-of-the-art water technologies is interesting. Food in facility cafeteria is great.

Cons

Business Run Like a Machine Shop: Probably because the business was formerly U.S Filter. It is run with a small-business mentality with no vision. Automation and standardization is not welcome and redundancy is the norm. Their BOM system is riddled with redundancies as they do not use a smart numbering schema throughout. The same part exists in mutiple records throughout the system because they treat every project as a 'custom' one and the Engineers re-create the same part over and over. They do not believe in commodity base numbers with variants. Each one is treated as a unique part number. Lack of Management: Very little communication between management and employees. Double-standard when it comes to personal time off between management and employees. Management does not implement internal business processes to ensure the smooth management of client projects. Business is run very lean often chasing their own tail. Business is and has been a money-losing venture with constant warranty work and penalty fees being applied for late commitments to clients per contractual agreements. Its no wonder they just laid off approx. 15 people from the facility. Lack of Respect for Others: Lack of respect is evident throughout the whole organization. This is modeled by the President as he is constantly berating his VPs and Senior Managers. Senior Management is often yelling, berating, and swearing at Engineers and others well within earshot of other employees in the work area. The whole environment is one of intimidation.

4.0
Mar 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

We are the only ones in our industry that is actually hiring. The pay is good. The company continually provides us with the resources we need to continue growing our knowledge. We are no longer a German company!!!! But, best of all, our product is the best on the market. Side by side, our OpenScape Unified Communications solution tears the competition apart! We all work from home which saves us on dry cleaning, gas, windshield time, etc. The travel is not extreme, and upper management appears to have the right vision to make it a success! I can't complain. It's a good place to work.

Cons

The new management doesn't "yet" get what it takes to be successful. Selling Communications Solutions is not like selling routers. We have several hiring recs open, which means the employees are currently carrying the workload for more than one. It will take a while to bring the 'new hires' up to speed.

2.0
Mar 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent prodcuts, motto of "never let a customer fail"

Cons

poor promotion practices, big company, big beaucracy

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