Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics Reviews

Pros

Great people, culture, great location depending on where you live.

Cons

Benefits, compensation for the extreme amount of work

Pros

Decent pay, complext problem to work with.
You make a poor decisoin, you can
let someelse go. So no need to ask
the question behind the question.
Pretend to be busy is easy.

Cons

Too much junk emails from within.

Pros

During my time at Diagnostics, I was very proud and happy to work for Siemens. In my department, management was very understanding and willing to work with you, whether it be performance, personal time, vacation, etc. I was able to have a great work/life balance, and I appreciated that.

Cons

Siemens Diagnostics is a mess. Siemens acquired three diagnostic companies, merged them into one, and it really impacted the end users - the customers. Revenue comes from the customers resigning contracts, and what the "higher ups" don't seem to get is that if a customer is not getting product, correct pricing, service, etc. they are not going to resign a contract and go to a competitor. Before they start laying people off to reduce costs and look more appealing to shareholders, they need to fix the internal issues going on between different departments which will in turn provide better customer satisfaction. As much as they want to serve as "one face to the customer", it is far from that because everyone from the former companies are still on their own agendas.

Advice to Senior Management

There are too many hierarchies of management within the organization. That is what you get with the 40th largest company in the world though.

Pros

Interesting products to work with. There was a feeling of discovery that you could be a part of something greater than yourself.

Cons

The management philospphy was poor. The individual was always wrong. The manager was always right and given the benefit of the doubt even when other subordinates indicated the same problem with the manager. They do not want people to have a career at Siemens. Bring in new people make it uncomfortable for anyone else once they have their pound of flesh.

Advice to Senior Management

Adopt a management style that reflects the slogans the company pretends to aspire to. The management is predatory. It comes down from the top.

Pros

The name recognition. Stability. Not much traveling compared to other similar companies.

Cons

Still work in progress in terms of procedures and structures since they merged 3 different companies. The size of the organization can have negative impact in terms of getting things done in timely manner.

Advice to Senior Management

The managers have too many direct reports they have to deal with and therefore he/she doesn't really know their employees very well. The hardworking employees often get unrecognized as a result.

Pros

Good pay and good healthcare package; can have good relationships with non-managerial staff

Cons

High expectation of work. If you do a good job, you get a nice pat on the back. If you screw up just once, you get hammered into the ground. It is very difficult to move up since Siemens is a HUGE company with lots of folks in management positions that won't budge.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better opportunities for advancement. Provide better feel-good opportunities for employees. Have an HR representative on site.

Pros

- Pay
- Bonuses
- Corporate Culture

Cons

- Blatant favoritism from management.
- New management ruined core aspects of certain departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Was once a wonderful place to work. It's now become like every other bureaucratic hack company.

Pros

Compensation and benefits are very, very good. There are a lot of career opportunities in other functional areas, as well as R&D. I don't think the workload is overwhelming, some would disagree. Projects last about 2 years.

Cons

Often feast or famine for projects. What is and is not funded changes by the week. Expectations from senior management have been missed lately, which is disconcerting.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire us up, why can't our slogan be "Beat Roche!" ? We all know that's the benchmark.. I wish we had that kind of corporate mentality, because I think people would respond to that attitude. People see through the "Mission, Vision, Values" Passion Corporate Speak

Pros

Big name on your resume
Good Over time
Great Benefits

Cons

Poor management by (customer care manager). Management itself does not follow escalation policies. When it comes to pleasing the customers, Field engineers are thrown under the bus. No work life balance, very hard to get promoted, no appreciation for hard work, hard to get your PTO approved. Not too many opportunities within the company to move around (unless u r in sales).

Sales has an upper hand over everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to appreciate employee efforts. Consider their employees before the customers.

Pros

facility, cleaniness, smart people, technology.

Cons

generalized statements of work, expected to read minds, not able ro gauge intentions of superiors, misdirection, hidden prejudice, may be misled and lied to, will never know what is said or done behind your back because no one will tell you.