Siemens AG Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Siemens AG

Pros – Camaraderie and enjoyment of working with peers

Cons – Little support or recognition from management, opportunities for training and career growth

Advice to Senior Management – mid level workers should not be penalized for management failure

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Siemens AG

Pros – Great company to work for. Health benefits, treatment, working environment. All of them are great! Also, great with managers and other employees

Cons – None that I can think of. But sometimes the work does get hectic but that is with any job. Other than that its a great company

Advice to Senior Management – Great company to work for. Health benefits, treatment, working environment. All of them are great! Also, great with managers and other employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Siemens AG

Pros – It is a young company with opportunities to contribute for those with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Cons – Senior management is anemic. There is a great deal of confusion and indecisiveness regarding the company’s mission, strategy, and direction.

Advice to Senior Management – Develop a strategy that is focused on the government marketplace and government customers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Siemens AG

Pros – Good people, great products, travel to Europe. Open to ideas, especially in the right situation

Cons – Sometime slow to respond. Too many HQ staff people that are developing plans completely disconnected from real world. Many people with long careers trying to get to retirement. Not enough new blood.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring in more outsiders

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Siemens AG

Pros – Benefits, stability, predictable work day, and travel

Cons – Predictable work day, cubicle farm environment, and cumbersome corporate structure

Advice to Senior Management – None, management seemed capable and compassionate about workers

Current Employee – been working at Siemens AG

Pros – Siemens is a huge company and therefore provides almost unlimited opportunities for career development and for promotion / advancement.

Cons – While there are huge opportunities for advancement due to the sheer size of the company, obtaining some of the opportunities requires a LOT of effort and willingness to put in huge amounts of hours to get noticed by someone at or above a certain level. While the top and top- middle management, and especially HR, certainly espouse the merit based pay system, continuous feedback, performance process, and high performance culture, the reality is that the day to day line managers aren't getting the message, and often recognize seniority and experience over performance, talent, and potential.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Siemens AG

Pros – The time off policy was decent and work from home arrangements are negotiable. The benefits has a great support structure and the ability to travel around the world was interesting and fun.

Cons – It's big. There are a lot of issues that arise in America because of the German work culture and the differences between the two. There are little opportunities for promotions unless you are a white German male. There were very few women managers and the one that I did see was German. The politics within the company are complex and suffocating.

Advice to Senior Management – Start to understand more of what your middle management is doing and stop focusing so much on the revenue.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Siemens AG

Pros – Micro Managment at it's best. They will be involved in every aspect of you day to day. There will never not be an reason not to be busy. Great for people who love to work. The salary is within acceptable ranges and Most management is pleasent enough to deal with.

Cons – Micro Managment at it's best. They will be involved in every aspect of you day to day. The have rules laid out for how you should do your job. There is no real room for error or slow days in their minds. If they pay you for 40 hrs and work only comes to 30hrs, they will eventually find 4 people in the same boat and remove one to spread the work around. This makes for a somewhat tense desire to find work by the more "go getting" employees

Advice to Senior Management – Not everything worker do can be arrange in such a way to have standards that don't change. You can't just expect every job to go as planned

Current Employee – been working at Siemens AG

Pros – It is a small company and there is room to grow. You will be challenged to make a name for yourself, but once you do you will be called on again and and again. The company is stable and if you are a technical person, then your job will be secure as long as they keep winning contracts.

Cons – They are CHEAP! Yes, they will promote you, give you praise, use you as a subject matter expert repeatedly... but when it comes to giving out raises, SGS is as stingy as they get. I've heard stories of people promoted to Program Manager positions who have been told that they will get no raise until they prove themselves! Well, why give them the promotion if they haven't already proved themselves??

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so cheap and start listening to your employees. You took a survey almost a year ago and NOTHING has been done to improve our benefits.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Siemens AG

Pros – Good salary and benefits as befitting a mega corporation. Siemens has some wonderful products and even better people, but the lack of communications from upper management to the employees stinks. Maybe this comes from the German background where you are just supposed to shut up and follow orders, but it makes for a less than pleasant work experience.

Cons – Downsizing and believes in the mushroom principle (keep them in the dark and pile poop on them). Here you have great people and they are ignored. The constant specter of a division being sold or downsized demoralizes everyone. Then there is the little problem of bribes that has gotten Siemens in trouble around the world. That gets around to your customers and hurts credibility.

Advice to Senior Management – A little communications would be nice. You have some great products and great people -- respect them on occasion.