Siemens AG Reviews

Pros

Name recognition, exposure to lots of technologies, Siemens has purchasing leverage due to its large size, some Divisions are great to work for.

Cons

HR presence and training is very minimal and contributed in arbitrary and inconsistent management practices. Unhealthy focus on short term financial results. Near zero training budget. Get beyond the 'sweatshop' mentality!

Advice to Senior Management

Reign in the rogue elements - provide real hands-on leadership!

Pros

Company stability extremely high, even in tough economic times recently had extremely few lay offs, company encourages additional training and education

Cons

little upward movement, employees stay with company until retirement (often 40+ years), upper managers often brought in from outside sources

Pros

Benefits were very good - vacation

Cons

Management, paperwork, compliance was very difficult, bad atmosphere

Advice to Senior Management

need some strong management that have a back bone

Pros

Always enough budget for your research

Cons

You have to find your own colaborators from outside

Pros

- Work Life Balance
- Good Health and Dental Benefits
- Employer allow flexible schedules for part time study or other personal reasons

Cons

- Highly political
- Too big
- Not easy to move within the different sectors within the organization
- Lacks training
- No structure to develop for new grads

Pros

High quality project management, Sun certified java developers

Cons

Low salary, high population in building

Advice to Senior Management

widening work area and improvement of braekfasts

Pros

It's a great company with great challenges on the future. Maybe the best one around the world. Come with us.

Cons

It's not perfect but it tries to solve any trouble in his pathway. Siemens people are very responsible with the company.

Pros

Great place to work for someone who is highly motivated and willing to play "the game". The job is wonderful if you can work under pressure and lear to trump up your accomplishments. The benefits packages are great and so is compensation. You really have to learn your craft and their is very little winging it. But once you get your foot in the door, they are wonderful as far as training and helping you when they can.

Cons

The executives at the company want so much to portray the "corporate lifestyle." They love the business power lunches, the speakerphone meetings, and the big fancy banquet meetings. You need to learn who to trust and when to trust them. They all talk in the cliche business speak. So learn your lingo.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to understand that a company does not go in the direction the captain points to. It goes in the direction the workers steer the boat.

Pros

good opportunities to learn interesting projects

Cons

not big opp to advance

Advice to Senior Management

to provide more training opport

Pros

Its in Berlin and Berlin is awesome. They also are doing some pretty cool engineering stuff that makes lots of money

Cons

Well I didn't speak german that well so it made life very difficult for me and the germans tended to look down on americans

Advice to Senior Management

i have no advice. its a different culture and a different way of doing business you just gotta know that going in