Philips Electronics Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

Pros

- Amazing & creative wellness activities for all the employees.
- Flexible time & very understand management.
- Excellent place for Senior Level executive, which they take care of almost everything of you.
- Alot of time for personal improvement.
- Great staff discount 15% ~ 80%, most of your eletronics brand will be replaced by Philips.
- Feel like home.
- Freedom to think & do.
- Good retired & retrenchment package.

Cons

- Bad tangible benefits, with bench mark at the 50% quartile.
- Less chance to get promotion, which taking a very long path.
- Lay back environment will make you sleep.
- Job rotations that giving you a higher responsibily with no change of your pay.
- Unfairness varies from each department.
- Old birds with no contribution can takes their own sweet time to wait for company package (more than 10 years).
- ONE IT Services sux, 3 weeks to 2 months to get an user ID created. A simple request need to route few levels to get reply (or totally no reply).

Advice to Senior Management

Proper deployment, town meeting & regular meeting for conduct is a good choice. However, high level of details which doesn't really related with low level... it's just waste of time. We wish to know what are influence to US only.

Pros

1)A lot oversea assignment opportunity, espeical Europe
2)Life and work is balance
3)People has some market value while leave the place

Cons

1)A lot of project is outsouce to China and other country
2)Very limited promotion chance
3)The salary is not aline with market

Advice to Senior Management

Top management and middle management are changed often.

Pros

I grew up in a country where Philips brand was highly appreciated. Working for them was like a dream came true. Professionally , I've learned a lot . I was lucky enough to have two managers highly supportive , and I was able to climb on the company hierarchy as well.

Cons

Big company with strong culture and highly developed political networks. That, sometimes, get in the way and even prevail the commercial aspects. That might be true for all large corporations, but I wouldn't know as Philips is the first MNC that I'm working for.
Despite the global coverage, the company mentality is strongly European centric. The perception in the regions is that ideas coming from a group in China (for example) are considered, by default, less relevant compare with something that is developed in Netherlands. For the same reasons trends in the regions other than Europe are also not well monitored and that had significant impact on the business.

Advice to Senior Management

In today's highly competitive environment, company focus seems to be very short term . Instead of taking decisions based on what will improve the bottom line tomorrow, it'll be better to look further down the road and take the best decision for the future of the company , even if this will have a negative impact on short term.