Siemens IT Solutions and Services Reviews

Pros

Room to take on new responsibilities, work with many different employees within the organization, able to learn and take web-based classes

Cons

The company positioned this division to be sold so the possibility to be laid off were much higher than in other companies

Advice to Senior Management

The on-line communication within the division was very good and informative but should perhaps have been updated on a more regular basis

Pros

- Very diverse group of people with many different skills and cultural insights on things;
- Good benefits and work-life balance;
- Great cohesion within groups and projects.

Cons

- Upper management often seen as distant/aloof;
- Processes were slow to implement.

Advice to Senior Management

Please consider giving employees more opportunities to further their education and/or move to other divisions of such a great company.

Pros

Compensation is average and benefits are excellent. Direct managers are very accommodating to maintain a good work-life balance and try to work w/their reports feedback. If you put in the work, and know what you're doing, you'll be acknowledged and rewarded for it.

Cons

Communication. The title above describes it, we spend a lot of time re-inventing the wheel or trying to convince upper management that what looks good on an XLS is not the best solution for us or our customer. Upper management 'thinks' they are doing better, but people just ignore the BS, try to do their job rather than beat that dead horse. John Evers doesn't seem to care what his people could tell him about ways to improve the business. Sometimes, it's just way to political to bother pulling their heads out.

Advice to Senior Management

Put the bean counters in their room, shut the door and take a walk amongst your employees. Talk to a few w/o the manager's hovering nearby and get the skinny on our real problems of delivering.

Pros

Flexibility, Learning, Lesser protocol, better flow of communication

Cons

Not process oriented, not focussed towards higher volume

Advice to Senior Management

Time to leap towards the next league

Pros

Friendly working environment, Good people

Cons

low salary, less opportunity to grow your career

Pros

They have solid medical benefits, and they weren't big on micro-management. I got to go to work and put in my time without even seeing them much, other than their name on the checks.

Cons

What were supposed to have been monthly 1 on 1 check ins turned into once every six months, if that, and they would last for maybe five minutes. My responsibilities and duties increased, but without a change in title or increase in pay.

Advice to Senior Management

When someone's job responsibilities increase, even if the company isn't willing to increase they pay they receive, you need to take slightly less of your 40% profit from them. The same when a pay cut comes down, you should probably eat that since you're a vulture feasting on the corpse of actual workers anyway.

Pros

- great engineering & industrial strength
- good strategic leadership

Cons

- weak compensation
- weak consulting competencies

Advice to Senior Management

none at the moment

Pros

Had a great manager to learn from

Cons

No flexibility
No hikes
No good bonuses
Very strict

Advice to Senior Management

No advice

Pros

Vacation and benefits are good

Cons

Dismayed at how accounts are handled.
Little room for career growth.
Too much useless management

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to any IT company, numbers are a bad indication of employee performance. Consider quality, not quantity. Don't just run a report, talk to your employees.

Pros

Work is good, good room for growth. You are shown tremendous respect for what you do.

Cons

The compensation is not up to standard when you move up internally.