ASSA ABLOY Reviews

Former Employee – worked at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – high paced, enthusiastic people, passionate about their jobs.

Cons – sometimes they have a just get it done attitude about tasks.

Advice to Senior Management – better training for new employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ASSA ABLOY

Pros – Pros - work/life balance, only need to work as many hours as you need to put in

Cons – Cons - office politics, if you try to stand up for yourself you will most likely have consequences

Advice to Senior Management – Give employees recognition they deserve and empowerment to make processes better and more efficient.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Benefits, pay, and chance for advancement.

Cons – No loyalty from company to it's workers

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the ideas of the people that work for you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ASSA ABLOY as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Friendly employees, encouraging and fun environment yet still on a serious professional level

Cons – Can't think of much, maybe better correspondence between departments when projects are due and being held up by one department's delays

Advice to Senior Management – Encourage all employees to meet deadlines, but not much else. Management does a fantastic job with the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than a year

Pros – They manufacture excellent products and systems.

Cons – There is a competitive situation between consultants in the same geographic territory that is unfair.

Advice to Senior Management – Training employees in detail on the products and services would be a good start. Then, setting up territories with uniform expectations would be the next step.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – the work-life balance is pretty good, nice working environment, you do not need to travel a lot, not feeling big pressure, nice colleagues.

Cons – low salary, little challenge work, if you are the person pursuing fast development in career, it is not a good place, at least for working in the manufacturing. not satisified with the career development

Advice to Senior Management – should establish promotion system that clearly states the requirement and plan for the talent

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great products
Flexible work hours
Good pension plan
Good numbers at the stock market

Cons – Small overcrowded office, kind of dirty
No diversity among employees, only old Swedish people, not very friendly
No career development
Grow only through acquisitions
Branding mess
Too many management layers
No time given to learn new technologies
Act as a follower instead of a world leader (poor R&D)
No rewards for employees despite the good numbers, and poor salaries (below average)
HR inexistent and no talent management
No training is given to new employees
New dangerous competitors
Dependent on distributors and resellers

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees when they come up with good ideas. Stop focusing on your own personal success.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ASSA ABLOY full-time

Pros – Lots of autonomy, high trust environment. Very good skills at top management level and focus on innovation. Managed well through the current economic environment.

Cons – Challenges ahead as it starts to pull the company together across the globe after an initial rapid acquisition phase.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than a year

Pros – good boss and nice colleague

Cons – not enough staff support and lack of manpower

Advice to Senior Management – more support staff to support the admin

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ASSA ABLOY full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1, have great chances to learn more in this internal group environment;
2,the company can offer much opportunities to improve myself

Cons – to little communication between sister companies

Advice to Senior Management – give all the staff equal chances for training....etc.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company