Logitech Reviews in Mississauga, ON (Canada)

Pros

Great team. Amazing projects to work on.

Cons

lower salaries than expected, comparing to the amount of dedication expected from employees.

Advice to Senior Management

give higher salaries

Pros

- Great staff
- Very friendly management\
- Excellent communication skills between management and staff
- Fun place to work and grow your career
- Logitech looks great on any Resume!

Cons

- Takes a long time to move up the corporate ladder however this is expected in todays economy

Advice to Senior Management

- Keep up the great communication styles
- Try to invest a little more in those high performers when it comes to career development

Pros

It's a paycheque
Good benefits
Great people (Logitech doesn't know how lucky they are)

Cons

-A lot of talk about how Logitech values employees is just that -talk. Promotions or rewards for hard work are few and far between, and there is little or no career development or training (except the occasional token gesture)
-Political environment, often incompetent people promoted over competent. (As long as you work long hours you will get recognized regardless of output)
-Moral is low in Mississauga office, people disappearing constantly (by choice or not) and head count is not replaced

-If you are looking for a long term career move don't come here unless you are planning to move to India soon.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure your words and actions line up (because they don't, and your employees know it)
Stop treating your employees like children and be straight up with them.

After a tough restructuring followed by two years of hard work employees need a little bit more than a free dish of ice cream at a townhall meeting to thank them for their dedication.

Pros

Bonus is paid quarterly.
Good discount for Logitech products.

Cons

Scrum/Agile means justified chaos, lack of vision, and 2 weeks deadline.
Unpaid overtime required on a regular basis.
Management is selected based on words, not achievements.
The deadlines are unrealistic.
The rank and file contributor is bullied on a daily basis.
Too much effort is required to get things done.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should be about providing vision, care for your employees, and getting things done. In your place is about politics, control, and Agile dogma.
Participating in a Townhall in Logitech is a sad experience. There is nothing about employees. It is almost like you talk with your stockholders.
Create a culture or you will dissapear.
You shouldn't make mass layoff when you have double digit growth.
Your oursourcing effort to India, shows why lowering taxes to big corporations doesn't mean they will create jobs.

Pros

Challenging products, international exposure, good brand.

Cons

Logitech's senior management doesn't value accountability, competence and dedication.

Pros

Management shows appreciation through paid lunches, team outtings, off-site meetings. Great profit sharing plan in this very profitable and growing company.

Cons

Some very immature and arrogant employees who need to grow-up.

Advice to Senior Management

Deal with the immature employees.
Be open to new ideas for products and services rather than being dismissive.

Pros

People are friendly. Very nice colleagues to work with.

Cons

Company has infrastructure changes since 2009. Positions have been transferred to India to save $$$. Many people were cut off recently. Overtime is usual.

Advice to Senior Management

Please respect your people!

Pros

- Very good products with talent smart patent
- Do what you can do . A lot of meetings is kind of relaxing time

Cons

-Do more or less , doesn't matter due to most of managers are not knowledgeable what they are doing /talking. Working culture is encouraging - " SPEAKING MORE, DOING NOTHING , THEN GETTING PROMOTION "

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the bum managers. Keep the talent engineering resources. promote real R&D value. improve productivity /effectiveness.

Pros

It's a globally recognized company. You feel yourself a part of a big team. The company has gathered many great professionals and just great individuals, who create a friendly working environment. The company provides in most cases a fair balance between work and private life of people, though stressful situations and pushing from top down occurs quite often as well.

Cons

Lack of technical leadership. The top management does not respect the feedback from the engineers. The product development roadmaps are built with no serious analysis of technical and ecomomical factors. A good help would be a detailed analysis of the competitors' products. The analysis should include the choice of technologies, general architecture, set of features, model lines, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the professionals, work as a team, not as a commander and a batallion of soldiers.

Pros

Joined the Harmony division of Logitech 6 months ago. Love working here. The products are cool and there is great team environment. The company has grown from a start up mentality to a professional company. Recently some outstanding engineering professionals have joined from some well known companies. Some of the best engineers can be found here today. Company is changing from
I" to "We" , some people left or ... as this happened. Lots of customer research, usability studies - engineers are encouraged to attend - very new for me good learning experience !

Cons

Fast paced environment requires you to keep you to speed on all the technologies. Learning some great new skills and technologies. Training is awesome - hard to sometimes keep up. Will like to hear more about other products from Logitech.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay on path! Love the focus on developing people. Encourage engineers at Harmony to bring their friends to come work here! Reference bonus will be nice :)