Belden Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – good pay for the area

Cons – always working. no free time

Advice to Senior Management – respect your employees

Former Employee – worked at Belden

Pros – Good pay, reasonable hours, smart people

Cons – Very process oriented, bottom line is everything

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

Pros – Good compensation, accountability, and mobilitiy

Cons – Can be beurcratic, over emphasis on process

Advice to Senior Management – Give managers more freedom and encouage a more entraprenureal spirit

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – Good benefits, 401K contribution from Belden.

Cons – Too much management layers. Micro managing, "top down" communication style. Poor work life balance. Management does not care or show empathy towards employees. They manage too much with metrics rather than common sense.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Belden

Pros – If one is interested in Lean Manufacturing then Belden is the place to work. They will train you and work with you so you understand and can impliment Lean at your facility.

Cons – Don't plan on retiring from Belden. Your life span at Belden is about 5 years. With there Force Ranking, at least one in your group will be cut every year and replaced with someone at a lower salary then the one who was cut.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop moving jobs out of the US and bring them back. The knowledge and the dedication needed to continuously improve Belden is here in the US not Mexico or China.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – Compensation is competitive but the benefits are below par. I was allowed to do my job and told to take ownership until about 4 years ago when our new CEO took over and brought his management team in.

Cons – Don't let on like you have a lot of experience and know what to do in a given situation. Negative comments have been made about "the gray hairs" at Belden.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't take yourself so seriously.
Demand the same level of performance form yourselves that you do from the grunts.
Display some common sense for a change.
Don't give the lean people a blank check, there needs to be more check-balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – pay decent...not a lot of work place choices

Cons – long shifts and weekends no early retirement

Advice to Senior Management – fairness

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Belden

Pros – It is a traditional place to work. Very "old-school". It is a profitable business as its main business is copper cable.

Cons – There is no room for growth. The copper cable business is not a growth business. Belden needs to diversify their portfolio so that it can stay competitive. Employees are not given room to grow either. Stagnant business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Belden

Pros – The Chambersburg location still growing, pay and benefits are decent, and the employees are good to work with. To some extent there is a family atmosphere, and many of the employees are friends with each other outside work as well as during working hours. The building is only one year old, with room for expansion. The working hours are not excessive, with occasional overtime required.

Cons – There is currently a somewhat chaotic environment, compounded even more by being purchased by Belden, and continuous turnover in upper & middle management in both Germany and the US over the past two years.

Advice to Senior Management – Develop or communicate a company plan for moving the company forward.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Belden

Pros – Get a check while you look for another job that will be there when Belden doesn't want you anymore and closes down your plant.

Cons – after giving us all a big speech about what a "family" company they were and how long people had worked at their company, they emptied our plant within 2 years; sending the equipment out and everyone who had worked at that plant for years onto the streets. We were a competent and competitive plant; they only bought us as an acquisition. They immediately sold off our corporate plant in Illinois, then our plant in Ohio within 2 years. We had to go to Mexico and train the people who were taking our jobs!! because WE were the qualified personnel. How does that stack up to "family"???

Advice to Senior Management – Put yourself in our shoes, even though you think we are just little, worthless pieces on your chessboard.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend