Siemens reviews

The local management is pathetic and hopeless. They have absolutely no clue of how to manage technical people. Politics is their weapon to deal with any issue related to people. There is no one in the management who is accountable for anything. HR is being handled mostly by someone who is just out of college. The management feels that hiding truth and misguiding people is the best way to bury the issues. A clear lack of experience in doing any kind of management is highly visible in all aspects of work. Most of the decisions are taken by gut feeling or by how they were managed by their bosses in the past. The folks at Head Office have a blind trust on the local management or they don't care about anything related to India as long as work is getting done. The truth is that work is getting done just because of few key employees. The local management is under the illusion that they are good payers. Good pay is a relative term, unless you compete with all the companies around you in product space you cannot decide where you stand. But no one can prevent you from boasting what is not true.

Management fosters a culture of "siloed" groups and organizations. The fragmentation between Germany and the US is very apparent. Often times, there is little cooperation to no cooperation between groups - it seems they only look out for themselves, which is a shame. Management doesn't set the tone to change this. For the 10 years that I have been with the company, it has always been this way. They recently changed their compensation structure within the past few years. In order to get promoted from within your group, the promotion money comes out of the overall merit pot for the group - which means that if you are promoted, all others in the group will have a lower merit increase for the year. This and the fact that the merit "pot" for the past few years has only been around 3% is beginning to cause folks to believe that there is a have vs have-not attitude towards the company. This is especially true when we as employees see emails from the division CEO telling us that we've meet or beat our financial targets every year, for the past 5 years. Vertical movement is a challenge. There are a large group of individuals that came over from Pratt & Whitney a while back. You'll notice that quite a few of these individuals are the ones in management positions. It almost feels (and you hear this quite a bit from a lot of people) that if you did not come from Pratt, and are not part of the "good ol' boy's club" that you have virtually no chance for vertical movement in some groups / organizations. Since the company is a German company, there are a lot of challenges when working with anyone from Germany. Beware of this - Germans have a much different work ethic than we do here in the US.