Belden Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Belden full-time

Pros – Exposure to senior management, Benefits

Cons – High turnover rate, low employee morale, poor work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management – Improve employee morale and the poor work/life balance
Practice what you preach

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden part-time for more than a year

Pros – - Good experience to fast-learning careers
- Flexible work time

Cons – - Lack of structured hierarchy
- Few chances to grow up
- Middle Management

Advice to Senior Management – - Retain People

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Belden

Pros – Great people to work with

Cons – Cubicles can get kind of boring.

Current Employee – been working at Belden as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – The team is made of all kinds of people, great people whom i've learn and will keep in contact along the way!

Cons – The chemistry is off, the system is lacking and there a major need of improvement on the procedures.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Visionary Company with important projection on Signal Solutions

Cons – Problems on Delivery time for Canadian Products

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

Former Employee – worked at Belden full-time for more than a year

Pros – some freedom, good pay and benefits

Cons – micro managed and constantly changing corporate direction

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden for more than a year

Pros – Great People
Great Products
Good Market Brand

Cons – Work Environment
High Pressure
Not clear strategy many times

Advice to Senior Management – More value to people

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden full-time for less than a year

Pros – Pays well. Lot of freedom.

Cons – Very poor customer service. Constantly in chaos. It systems are of 70's. Constantly cutting workforce. No concept of cost management.

Advice to Senior Management – Company just can't be run by short term numbers. Need to understand what needs to be done to get the numbers. Using lean does not makes efficient. First get good processes.

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – stability, good location, decent salaries.

Cons – not much room for advancement unless someone leaves.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – Great history, Great product, Used to be a great team.

Cons – The management is clueless. All of them know how to think strategy, but no idea on implementation.

Advice to Senior Management – Employees are de-motivated. Think there is a need to take care of them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend