Ingersoll-Rand Reviews

Pros

Global support reduces oncall events.
Not a back-stabbing environment.
Good team working environment.
Decent benefits.

Cons

Everyone fears for their job.
Extremely shortsited management philosophy.
Layoffs have cut into the bone already. Extremely valuable business knowledge is gone. Good luck on quick troubleshooting. Time is money, but that's the price of shortsitedness.

Advice to Senior Management

Some thought should be given to the actual value of offshoring to a low-quality workforce. Often, the final offshore product has to go through re-work by onshore personnel to meet customer requirements. That re-work cost isn't factored into the actual cost of the project. It's just labeled "ongoing support cost".

Pros

If you can hang on and drink the Kool-aid it is not bad.

Cons

The taste of the Kool-aid. Too much decision by committee. "Get with the program or leave mentality."

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees and engage them by forcing more decision making toward the middle.

Pros

It's a very diverse environment with people, processes and products of a great variety. An excellent place to learn how things are made, how different functions work together towards a common objective. The things you will learn here you may not find in B-school or at any other single employer. Very stable company, has been around for 100+ years and continues to make changes to it's product portfolio to prepare to remain in business for the next 100+ years.

Cons

Compensation for entry - mid management positions is avg or below avg compared to peers.
Advancement opportunities are less driven by management and more driven by the individual.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is very experienced and qualified. Recently some major changes have been taking place so communicating to the masses and keeping the team motivated is going to be key.

Pros

Good benefits and average compensation package.

Cons

No voice of the customer" input when new projects are developed. Poor communications from above

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the troops

Pros

401K and profit sharing benefits are good

Cons

vacation policy requires another look to be competitive

Advice to Senior Management

consider changes to vacation policy; allow volunteer work

Pros

Promotes Entrepreneurship
Lots of freedom
open culture
good responsibilities

Cons

Pay not upto mark
Company not clear about its future in India

Advice to Senior Management

Improve Pay
Retain your best people
Educate employee;s at all level about company's vision

Pros

Flexible schedule, positive environment and nice people.

Cons

Average pay (IR could pay better). Limited opportunity for growth.

Pros

There are actually some sharp people at Ingersoll Rand. Not too many but there are a few that you can learn from.

Cons

Senior management are all yes men. They don't think through their decisions. If you offer your opinion and it doesn't align, you will be fired. Goals are completely un-attainable.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop being yes men (and women). We all see how things operate and most people I talk to have zero respect for upper management.

Pros

Great Education Reimbursement, and Ingersoll Rand University is awesome

Cons

Trane used to a GREAT company to work for, it was customer and employee focused. They were increasing employee benefits when other companies were cutting them, and increasing market share at the same time. Then Ingersoll Rand bought Trane and the focus immediately went from the customer and the employee to the stock price. Now every decision is based upon what is going to give the stock a short term gain.
The result is a dysfunctional management system where millions are wasted on chasing dimes. It is very frustrating for a Manufacturing Engineer ( and most everyone else who does not get a bonus based on stock price) to see data driven, long term improvement based decision making replaced with flavor of the week (sometimes flavor of the day) decisions. There is a reason you losing market share.

Advice to Senior Management

IR University is very well stocked with Leadership Courses, you could really learn by taking some of them. Also you need to visit the plants and listen to more than the plant managers and their flunkies, spend time with the engineers and the line workers to get an idea of what is really going on. There is a reason why you have to sell Hussman for losing so much money, and why the senior engineers are leaving Trane for your competition in droves. Also just because you can send plants and jobs to Mexico does not mean it is a good business decision. There is a reason you are losing market share.

Pros

Pay and advantages are decent; there still are a bunch of enthusiasts for whom quality of service is a priority making it easier to sustain the never endings changes in LRP (“understood one month”)

Turn-over, if you like to see new faces that’s the place to be, finding employees having spent more than five years in the company is like going on a treasure hunt :-)

Cons

Bureaucratic and segmented, little to no internal cohesion on information sharing and involvement on decision making, clearly a trial and error mentality.

Project management...? Mhmm what's this? Veni, vidi, mori! Would be so much easier to do things right the first time with thinking prior running around....

Advice to Senior Management

Look outside, there are bigger and smarter fish in the pond, if they got caught why do we do the same?

Creating sustainable environments goes through upholding more than just a stock market value with a first aid kit, value people as you value you customer, engagement and “real drive” (not just a fake smile or a faint 'yes' from a local manager wanting his bonus) will follow.

Senior leadership should get the temperature of their staff across the globe; know your people, that should help in keeping commitment and get better results on the internal engagement survey.

PS: I know, if I'm not happy there are others looking for jobs, will just add to the turn over, why fix when we can hide it under the carpet ¡