Invensys Reviews

Pros

1.- One of the most recognized names in the industry of control systems
2.- International company
3.- Good relationship with medium management
4.- Good relationships with other colleagues
5.- Flexibility of working hours

Cons

1.- Lack of any real training in the hw/sw the company uses/sell
2.- Overtime almost everyday
3.- Lack of the necessary people engaged in a project

Advice to Senior Management

use the experience you have to plan things better. Listen to your employees and do what your promises.

Pros

Global presence that gives you opportunity world-wide

Cons

Change is the only constant

Advice to Senior Management

Don't change leaders too often

Pros

Company has experts with years of experience in the industrial automation industry. Campus is wide open and allows people to really work in a team environment

Cons

Does not have the spark or flair seen at other software companies. Products and marketing is very straight forward and there isn't really a lot of celebratory moments.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to bring back the feeling of a small software company which will breed more innovative ideas and stronger products to market.

Pros

co-workers were very supportive of each other

Cons

upper management was not in tune with our needs

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the top and start over

Pros

Competitive benefits
Global presence
Market based compensation
Within cetain departments, there are pokets of competence that can be refreshing
Employees/peers are 'in it together' and trying to be supportive

Cons

Management is ineffective
CYA culture - can be mean spirited because of fear and desire to protect individual interests
Leadership seeks to place blame instead of resoling problems
Terrible systems and lack of consistent common processes make it extremely difficult to be effective and get work accomplished
HR organization has incompetent, inexperienced leadership following recent reorganization

Pros

good benefits, good on your resume

Cons

Upper management has no clue as to what is going on. They also allow abusive employees to stay, even when everyone is aware. Not a friendly place to women in general.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean out the gene pool. There are a lot of whiners and slackers running the show and ruining it for good talent. salary is lower than competition.

Pros

1. Good work and you can gain good knowledge
2. Good opportunities to explore as it’s a small company, very high Visibility
3. Pay is Ok not bad
4. Promotions and Hikes are Good if you are working hard !

Cons

1. Politics.
2. No Work-Life Balance (Only you have to balance Work and you need to forget your Life !).
3. Opportunities likeTraining and Technology updates are less.
4. No Professionalism. Manages are Biased.
5. Less or No Onsite Opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to improve in Professionalism. Try to create a healthy policy for Work-Life Balance. Train middle level Managers for skills in People Management.

Pros

Invensys has a flexible work schedule, allows us to balance work and home life, decent benefits although they seem to decrease every year, challenging work, and good clients.

Cons

Pay is below industry. Even though i have opportunity to grow, the typical percent raise is 5%. They say their hands are tied and cannot do anything about it.

Pros

The pay is okay, the benefits are good. Some aspects of the work are challenging and enjoyable. There are people who try to "care" about you.

Cons

Growth is not really an important aspect of working here. You may have ideas on how to do things better, but unless you are in management you don't really get listened to.
Management often uses a command and control (and sometimes threatening) approach to making people do work. Real team work is uncommon.

Advice to Senior Management

Management are typically promoted to managers through demonstration of outstanding technical expertise in an area, however once becoming a manager, they continue to manage by imposing technical constraints on a team. They need to learn how to be managers of people instead of products.

Pros

-Awesome Supervisors
-Open Culture
-Flexible work hours
-Treat employees very well

Cons

Don't provide any sort of help in relocating

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the good work!