Siemens Medical Reviews

Pros

Working time is very flexible. The managers are very helpful and kindly communicating with the employees. The job is quite stable, as Siemens usually has one big plan made for 10 years. People can benefit from the enough time to make schedule and design reviews. Besides, as a giant in every important fields, Siemens runs quite stably, and there is no worry about losing a design job during tough economy environment.

Cons

For some people, it is not that desirable working place since it's very stable. New ideas will not be very quite implemented since there are too many issues to be considered in a giant company...

Advice to Senior Management

Get more technical people to support, such as the support on CAD tools.

Pros

Technical quality. Products and service

Cons

Like every big company... Many political decisions drive the business

Advice to Senior Management

Think big. Think knowledge. Think quality. Think people.

Pros

they have very deep experience on MDs, very experienced engineers in Germany, so if you get enough time, you can learn really useful things there.

Cons

they are very slow on talking salary increment, and their yearly evaluation about performance is very hard to get a 'A' .

Advice to Senior Management

they really need to take better care of their good engineers, not only their businessmen. no other thing want to say.

Pros

You can feel the management style is changing, to build a more transparent place with clear differentiation. great global network.

Cons

too many incompetent people hanging around and damaging the company's reputation. lack of efforts in people development. heavy processes to slow things down.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to people, embrace change, be open, be more strong in execution, focus on people, create a fair environment for people to grow, not just keeping everyone happy.

Pros

good management style (no micro management)

Cons

company does’t invest in employee future development. Benefits are getting worst.

Advice to Senior Management

You should invest more in training the employees

Pros

Huge company that can provide a huge diversity of experience. Very complex environment that can bring out the best in people.

Cons

The company promotes top performers (which is great if you are a top performer) but is not much use if you are in the other 95% of the employee population.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on building all employees, not just the top performers. Need to improve communication with meaningful content to all employees and not just the top level.

Pros

I love interacting with our customers and helping them solve their problems. The people are very motivated and creative and the lower levels.

Cons

Upper Management does not provide leadership and direction. This is like a big ship floundering in the ocean. This company makes money in spite of them-self.

Advice to Senior Management

Open up let your people work with you.

Pros

- great people
- innovation driven (in the past)
- good colaborations with customers

Cons

- management changes in 2009 and 2010 were disruptive
- new executive team takes way too long to make decisions
- way too many German Executives, hire from within!

Advice to Senior Management

- don't kill what we all built up over the last 10 years

Pros

Work with lots of talented colleague in a top-ranked international company.

Cons

Ceiling effect due to German Background.

Pros

big corporation with lots of resources
talented, good people
competence throughout organization

Cons

following a year in which the company posted the highest revenues and profits ever, dozens of people were laid off during the worst economic downturn in 80 years.

Advice to Senior Management

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