TE Connectivity – “Tyco - could be a great place to work. But it's still a looonnngggg way off”

Pros

My immediate Supervisor & Manager were great! They both had an 'Open Door' policy & never had a problem with you just popping your head round for a quick chat, or to discuss a work related problem & were always ready to listen to idea's.

Cons

Tyco could be a great place to work. But the upper senior management seem still to be caught up & stuck with the mindset of 'the way things were done' with the previous CEO. The new CEO, appears to understand this & appears to try to be trying to change this very negative mindset. But his message is not 'filtering' through & still has a very, very long way to go. Because of the present economic climate, they're making staff reductions, but as with the previous CEO, they always do this just before Christmas & the beginning of the new year. Which is not very productive & has a huge negative impact remaining staff morale.

Promotion & career advancement basically don't exist, which is a real shame, as Tyco has a wealth of extremely talented, hardworking (in most cases) employees & they're really losing out on fully utilizing the existing resources they have at hand. They also have a very bad habit of letting some of their best people go when times get tough, & moving accounts from other countries to the US, without really considering the the nuances of the way business is done in other countries & the negative impression this gives - it's like calling the bank & knowing that you'll be talking to someone in India who really doesn't care or understand what you're saying.

Even though I've just recently been let go, I'm not bitter about it (I've been able to find other employment quickly), I've got a lot of good memories. I'm being constructive & honest.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management really do need to get their collective heads out of the sand. They've got some great employees globally & should do everything possible to keep them! Yes, times are tough, but chopping heads for for a small short turn gain, will leave them a lot worse off in the long run. It damages morale, people loose enthusiasm for the work & become even more overloaded.

Concentrate on trying to lower manufacturing lead times (especially from plants in the far east) & don't give huge price increases & just expect your customers to accept it all the time, while at the same time increasing sales targets by vast amounts. It's much harder to sell more product & meet targets, if the lead times triple & the price triples.

Instead concentrate on how to effectively improve morale, create promotion prospects from within. I have said before, Tyco could truly be a great place to work. But it's still got a huge mountain to climb.