Hill-Rom Holdings Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Hill-Rom Holdings full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Calibre of management has improved over past 5 years.

Cons – Endless cycle of cost cutting leaves everyone generally uncertain about job security

Advice to Senior Management – Move everything to Chicago. Batesville HQ hurts talent acquisition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Cool challenging projects. Success is rewarding knowing you are creating good things for patients and caregivers. Good dsign and analytical tools.

Cons – Too many people to please, proceedures, and project constraints are cosistantly unreasonable, unless you are on a project that is favored by management. Favortism, and nepitism creates an almost maddening toxic enviroment that will eventually burn you out. They favor new engineers for new hires. Management will progressively make it harder and harder on you. Computers are outdated. Award systems for good work are broken or nonexistant.

Advice to Senior Management – Fair treatment is needed. Need to listen more to employees. A few managers need to be let go for their demoralizing treatment of their employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Good products, good and helpful people.

Cons – Not the industry best in processes

Advice to Senior Management – It will be great to have a look at all hill-rom processes and try to improve them , which will also improve the overall quality of the products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Hill-Rom's corporate offices are located in a small town with surprising resources. Everything is easily accessible. Schools are very good. You will get to know your work peers because you will interact with them in other places as well. The company is supportive of the town and vice versa. It is a great place to raise kids. You will meet some fantastic people, especially at the lower levels of the company where you find "locals" who have been here a long time.

Cons – Morale is very low. Layoffs created situations where those left have too much work. The load and the inability to successfully accomplish all of it is demoralizing. Remaining staff feels they are on the brink of being let go as well. Any planning from the top is not being interpreted well by middle management. It feels like we take off in one direction and before we finish, we start over in another direction. There is a significant "old boys club" mentality and an unwillingness to promote from within. This not only eliminates potential for career growth through promotion, but means that choice growth opportunities at one's current level tend to always go to the same few people.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate more thoroughly throughout the company. The quarterly meetings do not provide a lot of information that people want to know. There is too much "spin" on the important agenda items. For example, tell everyone exactly what the plans are for moving some of the headquarters functions to Chicago so that people will know and can plan ahead. Otherwise, you look like you are lying (lying by omission even when directly confronted), and people will later say "we knew it all along".

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Industry leading, internationally growing company, which provides opportunities for those who seek them. Great company to gain experience in the medical device industry. Decent compensation plan including significant YE bonus. Stable employer for high performing folks - most employeers are long term (15+yrs)

Cons – Hill-Rom continues to be perceived negatively by many long-term employees who are slow to accept that we are a public, not a private company. Senior management presents an ever-changing environment.

Advice to Senior Management – Visit the facilities, and understand what is really happening before making drastic changes.

Former Employee – worked at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Benefits are good, people treated fairly

Cons – They are at a point where they need an upper management change.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to keep your operations here in the United States. Good workers at the Batesville Site.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – It's a job for a few years, don't expect much

Cons – Management changes every few months

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to love USA and not Sinapore

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Decent pay and benefits. Some but not all local management is willing and understanding that work is not more important that family and personal life.

Cons – Senior management is completely oblivious to the harsh realities of employees in the field and are unwilling to take suggestions for improvement. Field employees are unable obtain resources to do job effectively and efficiently. The field is always short handed because they refuse to replace those employees that leave quickly, if at all. Senior Management has lost confidence and in the field employees, including tracking and monitoring of phone calls, email, text messages and GPS on all vehicles to monitor where employees are, and for how long, Including meal breaks and stopping for fuel, snacks, or drinks.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your field employees, including service and sales. Treat employees with dignity and respect and allow us the freedom to do our jobs effectively by providing us the resources to do so. Don't fake the importance of safety as a priority only to berate those that are injured on the job, and make internal numbers your ultimate priority.

Former Employee – worked at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Decisions could be driven from bottom up if you have air support.

Cons – Constant leadership changes, unclear company's direction, continuous struggle between Batesville locals and outsiders.

Advice to Senior Management – Company's directions always get hijacked by the locals. Need to get the company out of this downward spiral. 80% of company's energy and resources are consumed by internal politics. Need to cut out the bullshits and get back with competitions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hill-Rom Holdings

Pros – Compared to factories, this is a great job.

Cons – No home time. They want your entire life to revolve around the company.

Advice to Senior Management – More pay increases and more time off.