Benchmark Electronics Reviews

Pros

a relaxed atmosphere , friendly people

Cons

It appears that seniority may be rewarded in some cases, regardless of performance

Advice to Senior Management

take a good luck at long timers who may be highly paid and rewarded while others though may be performing at an equal or higher level and are taken for granted and not treated as well, especially monetarily.

Pros

Good place to build experience, and can even be a lucrative career if you can get in at the upper levels.

Cons

Salaries are below average and layoff / hiring cycles seem to be frequent.

Advice to Senior Management

pay more attention to the employees (in a good way). There is more to them than the cost of employing them.

Pros

Team work, folks pulling together to achieve a common goal. Management is willing to listen to coworkers, and coworkers are willing to make the company successful. There are a large number of folks that have been at Benchmark for more than 10 years. There's a reason for that. Communication between coworkers and the drive to manufacture quality products makes this Division successful year after year.

Cons

The ebb and tide of contract manufacturing in general can be challenging with respect to family life.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep learning from the coworkers that do the job day in and day out. Keep supporting Quality as the #1 goal. Keep learning from mistakes to continually improve processes and systems.

Pros

Location is good in Singapore

Cons

Overall benefit and career advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Building a strong team is key to business success. Appreciate your employees

Pros

Good work-life balance. New CEO respect and treat employee better. There is some improvement in management way.

Cons

Low morale due to high turnover.
No motivation to drive productivity.
Discipline decline, for example: the number of employees late for work increase.

Advice to Senior Management

Good job. Keep it up.

Pros

Benchmark is a company where one can work independently with little supervision. There are some very nice skill based opportunities concerning new technologies and disciplines.

Cons

The problems with Benchmark have to do with long-term relationships with both employees and customers. Senior management does not do enough to foster relationships by providing incentives or praise for their employees. Most praise is at best shallow and only given sometimes after a customer has already provided it to the employee. The management focuses on short-term profitability without regard for future growth opportunities, which usually results in lost customer and employee satisfaction. Investment into new opportunities is also low and most opportunities are gained with maximum effort by a few employees whom afterwards are not rewarded for their efforts.

Advice to Senior Management

The biggest piece of advice to Benchmark is to allow leadership to be produced from the top job performers within the company. Many times the company is rewarding a manager who has no knowledge of any of the actual work needed to perform a task, complete a project, or solve a complex problem. Many times the manager is simply a task completion auditor and meeting coordinator and arbitrarily will try to reduce the completion time while increasing the meeting frequency.

Pros

Ability to stay open. Close to home.

Cons

No personal advancement, no professional advancement, little respect for personal life, very much over worked, little to no reconition. The big one is no raises for years! If you like working with 10 plus year old PC and software you will fit right in.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating professional engineers as children and allow advancement, stop using the old "you can always find another job" as an answer for dissatification. Give engineers the tools needed to perform their tasks and update the current tools to the latest revisions.

Pros

it was an ok job

Cons

tense environment between management and engineers

Advice to Senior Management

managers need to provide feedback more frequently

Pros

Learn fast paced work environment

Cons

No growth
Rude
Favoritism
Career growth NILL

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

E-learning is good for self-training, it can be accessed from home which makes it very convenient for me to pick up new skills.

Cons

Poor understanding from the top management. Favorism. Working under fear of top management. Poor working environment: hot. Incompetent team. Poor teamwork.

Advice to Senior Management

Remove favorism, improve teamwork, improve employees' competency, change the hot temper of top management, reduce office politics, remove office bullies.