Osram Sylvania Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Osram Sylvania full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Benefits, Flexible schedule, Flex Time available

Cons – Difficult to move up the ladder

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Osram Sylvania

Pros – good benefits but a lot of cost cutting has eliminated many of the best benefits

Cons – Too much politics and backstabbing. Large company politics makes it difficult to be productive. Most of the challenging work is being performed oversea where cost are lower. US design work is limited to cost reduction. More of a job shop atmosphere in design engineering and no chance for career advancement unless you are a political expert

Advice to Senior Management – You won't be able to improve moral unless you get rid of all the entrenched middle manager who are more concerned about there jobs than actually coming up with innovative products

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Osram Sylvania

Pros – - longevity of career
- great people
- work/life balance
- global interactions

Cons – - IPO fever
- restructuring and "leaning" of opperations
- us operations are controlled by osram ag in germany
- communications flow is a trickle
- no leadership at the top

Advice to Senior Management – - communicate, motivate and provide strategic direction

Former Employee – worked at Osram Sylvania

Pros – Good sick time and vacation time.

Cons – Upper management are living in the 20th century. There is little to no innovation, any innovation is squashed for short term profits. It'll be exceedingly difficult to modify their business model to fit the post incandescent age.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house, starting at the top, get innovative thinkers to lead the next generation of lighting products.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Osram Sylvania

Pros – Excellent benefits, clean work environment.

Cons – Internal customer communication skills and perhaps office politics.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean up office aesthetics and teach effective internal customer communication skills. Implement cardboard recycling in addition to lamps and ballasts.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Osram Sylvania

Pros – Large company. Decent benefits. Tolerant of poor performers. Unless you are in a leadership position or believe in rocking the boat, you can survive/cruise/pass your time for a while.....

Cons – Organization does not respect talented and hard-working employees, even if they have spent long careers at the company. A large number of young and middle aged talented employees have left the company in the past few years. Unless you are from Germany the ooprtunities for global leadership positions are extremely rare.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn from other leading global hi-tech companies - such as Apple, Microsoft or Intel

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Osram Sylvania

Pros – -Very complex organization with some extremely bright individuals.
-OSI is a company always looking to remain ahead of the technological curve.
-Benefits are great
-Pay is not to bad

Cons – -Too much micro-managing which does not allow talent to surface
-Sometimes the hunger for more business is not met with the inventory of product available
-Training in all aspects could be better, instead of cramming it all in one week

Advice to Senior Management – Management should consider the thoughts and opinions of rank and file employees who drive the business.

Current Employee – been working at Osram Sylvania

Pros – Good opportunities for growth if you have a good track record.
Compensation is satisfactory

Cons – No opportunity for advancement if you are not well liked
Most of the good jobs are given to GERMANS.
If you are not GERMAN, there is no opportunity to get top jobs or advancement for International jobs.
It is either German way or NO Way!

Advice to Senior Management – Open up the opportunities to all employees and based on their capabilities and competencies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Osram Sylvania

Pros – open communication, not too stressful. like working for a utility

Cons – pension 401k under performs peer companies, slow to respond with innovation

Advice to Senior Management – keep listening to level headed employees

Current Employee – been working at Osram Sylvania

Pros – Solid entry level pay
Training on SAP
Open door with management

Cons – Lack of opportunity for growth in company
Jobs are given to favorites

Advice to Senior Management – Make Sylvania a place people want to stay and develop