Cummins Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – Really good work environment,
flexible with personal time off,
good product and good application of new technology
very good learning experience
lot of training opportunities
clear goals
fairly well defined work

Cons – health insurance is not too good
salary relatively lower and promotions take forever and managment does not want to do any thing about it either
does not promote further eductation, and hardly covers 20% of tuition
most people are of the opinion that if you leave the company and come back you can get much better compensation

Advice to Senior Management – This is a Fortune 500 company, we have a great product however Employee Retention is a key for long term success.

Former Employee – worked at Cummins

Pros – the compensation is about the best thing, relative to other organizations.

Cons – The training is almost non-existent

Advice to Senior Management – start managing at lease SOME training

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – Opportunities to work in different teams and functional areas.

Cons – Work life balance
Employee Evaluation process
Opportunity for real growth can be stiffled

Advice to Senior Management – Promotions without financial compensation is not smart.

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – Pros:
- ESPP, 401k, stock rising in right direction,
- less competitors
- good training
- data driven

Cons – Cons:
- Ranking system
- lack of appreciation
- health benefits too expensive
- very very underpaied then other peer compaines (Read: CAT)

Advice to Senior Management – Get better handle over the market analysis to gain more market share and invest in more proven technology to lead in future. Employee appreciation is questionable

Former Employee – worked at Cummins

Pros – Great benefit package... some departments in the company are still ran like they should be

Cons – Work life balance is impossible, we were expected to put work first at all times. Senior management was unresponsive and not open to any new ideas.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your every day employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – The company overall has a strong senior management that laid the foundation for the rapid growth for the past few years
Good corporate culture
progressive and strong on ethics
stable performance

Cons – Slow paced, tends to get boring after a while
Small town, location undesirable, less opportunities to change job without moving
Overly emphasis on Six Sigma

Advice to Senior Management – Improve efficiency by reducing some of the bureaucracy
Remove the requirement of having to be Six Sigma certified before moving to management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – Great work culture.
Compensation is competitive considering the work location.
Great work place mobility. Employees has opportunity to move from one role to another after two years of completing in one role.

Cons – The head office in Columbus, IN is a very small place and not ideal to attract good talents.
Slow paced. Execution gets bogged down in too many procedurial steps.

Advice to Senior Management – Top down approach to managment. It is unlikely ideas at the bottom of the value chain will get heard in setting strategy decisions. Levels of hierarchy needs to be reduces.

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – - Strength of senior leadership
- Commitment to corporate responsibility
- Humane work environment
- Management willing to listen to employees
-Good benefits
- Good bonus (when economy is strong)
- Interesting work

Cons – - Advancement possiblities limited for those in "support" organizations
- Too dependent on Six Sigma as a leadership development tool
- Base pay for professionals lower than at similar companies
- Relatively few great places to live and work at Cummins
- Staffing tight in some areas

Advice to Senior Management – Would like to see leadership do a better job of recognzing talent and potential across the entire range of the company. Too often, talented people get pigeon-holed based on their current duties and we're not creative enough to find ways to translate skills of people with non-traditional backgrounds or core business roles (i.e. - non-technical roles) into leadership positions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cummins

Pros – Good company to start your career for an entry level. Flexibility to change jobs within the company.

Cons – Although, the company has a diversity intiative and focus, still there is no fairness to minority.

Advice to Senior Management – Create policies to be just to minorities. Think at a global space, not just a columbus IN

Former Employee – worked at Cummins

Pros – Good work/life balance, good time off from work for personal issues, decent profit sharing during goood economy, good training opportunities at Columbus, projects are simple enough and ideal for someone with 0-3 years experience.

Cons – For an ambitious engineer with some experience, the moderate work load and relatively simple project work can get very mundane and discouraging. Base salary is very low compared to similar positions in the industry. External professional hires always always earn a higher salary than the home grown talent. Pay increases and grade changes are only a matter of time. You cannot jump jobs and hope to earn a significant payraise. In rare instances, they offer a tiny equity increase after hard negotiations. Cummins follows a rack and stack system where roughly bottom 5% of workforce gets seperated every year. Few of the older managers at Cummins use this to their own advantage to weed out the engineers they dont get along with regardless of how productive those engineers are. Since they have a single product, the company does not offer diverse job types in engineering. If you have a passion for diesel engines, you may like the positions they offer. Common jobs are, Development engineer (test plan and validation), Design Engineer (Pro/E packaging work), Performance Engineering (interesting work) and Controls Engineering. Besides, Cummins is infamous for layoffs.

Advice to Senior Management – Diversify, Fix the older territorial managers who abuse the performance system

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend