ABB Group Reviews

Pros

Amazing opportunity in terms of responsibility and challenge. Growth is performance driven and not hierarchical.

Cons

Not the best of paymasters.

Pros

For better work life balance.

Cons

Salary not upto the Market standard.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on retaining the employees.

Pros

the salary is good so its big reason to stay at this company

Cons

the environment is too filled with politics , fevaretism that a good worker never gets the chance to stand out

Pros

Possibility for Role changeover within group.

Cons

Engineering and managerial structure in the entry and experienced levels has a lot more areas for improvement

Advice to Senior Management

Overall environment with respect to work-related-training needs improvement. Knoweldge maintenance and transfer has a lot of areas to be worked upon.

Pros

If you have a good boss, things sail through. But overall, a difficult and political company to survive.

Cons

ABB Bangalore over the last few years has become one of the worse companies to work for. There is a lot of bureaucracy and non essentials are escalated to the senior management. You will be subtly told every now and then that if you do not comply to the draconian policies of the company, you will be sacked. Everything goes in the name of company policy. The HR officials are the worse lot. They don't have proper degrees and thus are oblivious to protocol. People with diplomas and just BA are at senior positions because they have been in the company for long. Very incompetent and rude. And huge ego. But most of the HR is the same. I'm glad I'm out.

Advice to Senior Management

Change your HR personnel. Make them a reason for people to stay, not leave. Treat employees in India with respect. I was told during orientation that we hire people from India because they come cheap, so make money for us. And this was an HR person again.

Pros

interrnational opportunities, multicultural environment global focus

Cons

conservative in HR policies, weak vision on employability in Benelux

Advice to Senior Management

open up for modern HR policies

Pros

Good salary and flexible working hours with balance between private and professional life. Good starting place for internship and career.

Cons

Very laid back and protective environment within local circles. Strategic planning of senior managment and politics can be sensed miles away.

Advice to Senior Management

Let new innovative and international people play role in company's development to define the future.

Pros

Lots of individual autonomy
Challenging, global problems with very diverse workforce and opportunities for rotational training
Excellent work/life balance
Highly-capable workforce

Cons

Lots of individual autonomy (limited collaboration and feedback from management)
Culture of firefighting
Huge organization with typical features (old/slow IT, inefficient/overlapping processes, etc.)

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage discussion of strategic direction throughout org levels and reward collaboration that creates long-term value. More formally define opportunities for divisions to share lessons learned.

Pros

nice environment and working culture

Cons

need good qualified staff and need to use their skills more effectvely

Advice to Senior Management

Very nice management and good cooperation especially HR. They have well procedures and interact with their employees in well mannered way. Thanks to ABB

Pros

Good work environment. Friendly co-workers and manager

Cons

Very demanding hours towards the end of a project