Moog Reviews

Pros

Excellent vision at corporate level. Constantly seeking to grow and develop through aquisition. Very collaborate ethos for an American company

Cons

Sattelite companies are run in a haphazard way, although there is a significant push to roll out standardisation in terms of systems and metrics

Pros

Nice people and and nice facility discovered during the job interview.

Cons

Management made a hasty decision in rescinding an employment offer while the prospective employee was researching housing options. Communications is the key and this Company does not appear to have mastered it.

Advice to Senior Management

Give prospective employees that are offered a position the time and resources necessary to make an informed decision rather than being told your time is up.

Pros

Work experience at Moog gives you advantage when applying for jobs abroad. This is the reason why some people consider MOOG Baguio only as a training ground.

Cons

Outsourcing, Sub-contracting, Purchasing, Canteen concessionaire, Insurance/Health care benefits, Tools...how the hell are they getting away with it? Too much corruption.

Advice to Senior Management

We need Corporate to move-in before it gets out of control..The expats currently at Baguio have seen lot of problems but don't have enough authority to fix it.

Pros

nice co workers! high salary at entry level positions

Cons

very bureaucratic working conditions. Favoritism is very rampant. Engineers were working as technician and assemblers while vocational graduates employees were the ones that were assigned in leadership and managerial positions. Sound crazy but it a fact! Onli in d pilipins!

Pros

Causal and relaxed atmosphere
Business growth for the past 10 years due mainly to acquisitions
Highly technical products, capable employees
Life time employment

Cons

"Moog Culture" is used as an excuse to not avoid change
Employees are "lifers" which results in mediocracy
Career growth is through acceptance in the "club"
Pay is average, but no incentive plans to motivate employees (everyone is enrolled in a profit share program with only top management in a slightly better growth based bonus)

Advice to Senior Management

Moog culture is the basis of the company's philosophy. Adaptation and integration of this in light of acquisitions, market changes and shareholder values should be reviewed while mainting and returning to the core values.

Pros

Everybody is on a first name basis, and has a comfortable environment, mostly. Unless you really go off the deep end, your there until you want to leave. Great place to get real experience - "Baptism by Fire" approach strongly practiced. Yearly raises are given, but just enough to cover inflation (most of the time). Profit share checks are given to employees if the company makes profit over the year.

Cons

Salary is less than other companies.
Management leadership and open mindedness are nonexistent - some managers don't even work in their own department and are too concerned about how to look important
Does not practice the "Culture" they preach, such as, "solutions not scapegoats" or "value personal time." People spend more time pointing fingers or trying to point the finger than actually working to resolve the problem.
Change is discussed, but hardly ever heard.
Job Definition = who ever is closest or around it should do it

Advice to Senior Management

If you practiced the "culture" you have posted on the wall, Moog would be 100 times better.
Industrial amnesia is horrible with management, so stop letting them "forget" and take some responsibility.

Pros

very high tech an interesting projects

Cons

start as temp and very hard to become permanent unless you know someone or are very good at sucking up

Advice to Senior Management

People should get promoted on qualifications and work ethic not by how much you like them or any other company politics

Pros

job security
unique business niche
good cross functional depth
challenging customers
good work location
depth with in company overall
good continuing education options

Cons

processes and procedures written but unlikely followed
business systems often impede rather than help
business niche does not foster being cutting edge

Advice to Senior Management

improve the business systems to help move the company forward
get out of a silo approach to managing people and programs
foster system thinking

Pros

Once you're in, you're a member of their "club", so to speak. They take care of their own, and promote from within first.

Cons

It's a very traditional work place, and god forbid you do anything that's not out of the norm. Their culture contributes to a doom of their company for sure. Of course, this is a small town in Blacksburg and a "work-life balance" is unheard of. I wouldn't go in an expect innovation or change without fighting to the death for it.

Advice to Senior Management

Get with the times!

Pros

Challenging design environment allows engineers to stay sharp.

Cons

Many layers of management means everyone has many bosses. Not a satisfying way to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Simplify.