Cummins Power Generation Reviews

Pros

1. a growing business unit, have opportunities to change work
2. communication with senior manager is very good, and he is really helpful
3. the relationship with people there is good

Cons

1. the work is not very challenging
2. salary may not be very high
overall, the cons are not that many

Pros

Decent Pay
Good growth prospects
Promotes diversity,

Cons

Forced ranking system; scares you to death everyday on job
Incompetence of senior management
HR is biased towards hourly employees; they listen to hourly workers not management employees
Going behind your back culture prevalent; Worst politics I have ever seen in a major corp.
Can't say anything to hourly employees

Pros

Salary is okay, about typical

Cons

Understaffed, but won't bring in new people when needed
When orders pick up, kiss your work/life balance goodbye, overtime is declared on a moment's notice, including Saturdays
Horrible working environment, very noisy
Management expects clockwork precision in attendance, one nanosecond late (no matter what reason), and you get demerit points
A "we own your soul" attitude in general

Advice to Senior Management

Keep an adequate staff in place, even if that means bringing in more temps when the workload is heavy. Stop declaring overtime at the last minute, plan it ahead of time and give advance notice. A little courtesy goes a long way. And give employees/contractors more flexible options on when to work their overtime, instead of requiring them to come in at 5 in the morning.

Pros

Some management folk are really good and know what they are doing. But that is only 20% is my feeling

Cons

Very presentation oriented Company than get the work done and we trust you. Documentation is good but their has to be a efficient and productive way of doing it. I feel Company can be 30% more efficient if they do that. Some folks have really done good presentations and succeeded somehow, but in reality they are lack on Knowledge and courage to take a stand.

Advice to Senior Management

People Should be promoted and considered to be visible based on projects they have completed, in other word a person should be known by his/her projects or work, not by any other means. A system needs to be developed to make sure projects and people behind those projects are visible.
1-2-3 anual rating is very manipulating and is unfair to people who take pride in there work.

A thumb rule is an XYZ person works 20% time and promotes/markets his work for 80% or rest of the time, and a person ABC works for 90% of the time and promotes.markets his work for 10% of the time. If I am running a company I would want more of ABC's than XYZ's because they earn 60% more money for the Company.

Pros

As an intern, exposed to a lot of situations, so large opportunity for growth.

Pay is good for an internship

Cons

It's a big company, so a lot of times you can get bogged down by the bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management

The leaders do a good job and I like the Company's direction

Pros

bonus structure
work / life balance

Cons

health care benefits are horrible
executive management is too insulated from day to day issues/roadblocks
horrible workplace environment
outdated systems
too reliant on 6Sigma, ignore obvious improvements

Advice to Senior Management

don't tie all improvements to 6S, realize there are opportunities to improve that don't take 6 months and tons of powerpoint charts to justify

Pros

The people I worked with were great. People were down to earth and willing to share information when and if needed.

Cons

Poor middle managment. Promotions here are very politcal - too much value placed on who you know and not necessarily what you know. HR leadership is awful.

Pros

Tremendous growth opportunities
Dynamic, fast paced
Good products, strong market positions (particularly in developing markets)
Very strong and well respected senior leadership (at Cummins Corporate and President level)
Performance-based review process (not always well implemented)
Thin management ranks gives lots of opportunity to take more responsibility..if you have time

Cons

Leadership below President level is poor (not strategic, highly political, too busy to lead)
Do not have sufficient resources to support aspirations. We say we want to grow fast, but the same obstacles budgets, HR policies impede that
Physical facilities are sub-standard (being fixed currently)
Unpleasant work environment, many people are unhappy
Uneven share of value (employees vs. management)

Advice to Senior Management

Reward your employees more when performance is strong (why cap variable pay?)
Hire people faster, take the shackles of your hiring managers
Spend some money

Pros

Flexible schedules
Great Salary
Lots of Diversity

Cons

Do not stick by mission and/or values
Management lacking in communication
Management very contradictory
Lots of politics and plenty of "playing favorites"
Management deflects blame from themselves onto the employees below them even when management is clearly at fault
Lacking in adequate training/mentoring for new hires
Only care about bottom lines, not about employee development or growth

Advice to Senior Management

Really start to listen to your employees whether they have years of experience or are just starting out as an intern. Also improvement on lack of communication and/or contradicting communication is a MUST.

Pros

Ability to grow within and change positions. Various tools and techniques used to achieve goals and targets. Pretty decent pay.

Cons

People do not stay in their roles long enough. People are ignorant and complain too much about things they do not do themselves to begin with.

Advice to Senior Management

Be reasonable and do not ask people to create workarounds for those, who do things wrong. Cultural changes are definitely needed.