Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Reviews

Pros

Good working environment, people are nice

Cons

Salary is not very good.

Pros

good colleagues, cool atmosphere. You have job stability - many ppl had been working there for years

Cons

very bad pay and lots of work

Pros

Excellent Benefits, Helpful HR (No "Catbert" here), great co workers, great work environment, Socially responsible policies, Environmentally responsible policies, great work life balance

Cons

Just as with any other corp environment, there is a lot of documentation and administrative duties required, but these are of course neccessary.

Advice to Senior Management

For financial work incentives. by putting more weight for the bonus payout on the individual's performance rather than the the company's Global success, there would be more direct incentive for each to achieve even more. The aggregate company's Global financial take would increase, as the whole is equal to the sum of the (now increased) parts.

Pros

Hardworking and dedicated co-workers. Challenging and motivating vision and purpose. Ability to work with interesting and challenging new technology. Decent benefits

Cons

Management is very controlling and directing. They do not provide a real environment that encourages innovation and creativity from their employees. Promotions and advancement requires compliance and "group-think" rather than real leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to open up and listen to employees and encourage new ideas and innovation. Also need to allow employees access to more information

Pros

Clear, precise communication and awareness--EXCELLENT

Cons

The salary is ok, but could be better

Advice to Senior Management

Great communication and awareness is an asset

Pros

laid back. Work life balance
colleagues are knowledge able
HQ in good location
big company sense
very technical work atmosphere

Cons

Agile all sit on one table, too much disturbance at work, Less opportunity to grow
re-org and layoffs are frequent
incompetant compensation

Advice to Senior Management

treat employess with respect
work on ur management skills
stop dirty politics and egoes
learn product instead
learn to conduct reviews

Pros

Opportunity to work 80 hours a week and fulfill your workaholic tendencies, if you fall into that category .

Cons

No recognition no matter how hard you work.

Advice to Senior Management

Work Life balance is very important to employees. Employees are human beings too and need to be treated as such through incentives which can in the least be verbal encouragements from time to time.

Pros

Work load is reasonable. No one expect you to work unreasonable hours all the time. Most of the first line managers are reasonable people and try to work their best to make their people happy.

Cons

The company is looking to outsource much of its operational teams. Personally, I understand why they are doing it (cut costs and etc). The obvious down side is low morale and impact on individuals.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't outsource because it's the easy thing to do and everyone else is doing it. Do it because there is a real long term (5 years or longer) benefit which I don't believe exists.

Pros

Siemens was very supportive of their employees. The pay and benefits were very good. You were expected to work hard, but they didn't micro-manage.

Cons

There are not enough women in upper management and many talented women took voluntary packages during the downsizing, or left shortly after.

Pros

The cutting edge technology challenges all your capabilities.

Cons

No opportunities for anyone but white men to advance in the company. At least once a year they fire a bunch of people to create fear. The managers threaten the remaining employees throughout the rest of the year that their jobs will be outsourced to India and they will be fired if they do not work many hours of mandatory overtime. It is the most oppressive environment I have ever been involved in. If an error happens, look out. The manager will look for someone to blame. No creativity is possible because no one wants to take the risk of making a mistake. It is really a shame that Siemens has killed the potential for any new ideas coming from their work force.

Advice to Senior Management

Advance some women and people of color into your senior ranks. They have intelligence and business savvy that will blow your mind. It's just not necessary to carry on forever with your old boys network. This is the reason why your corporate culture is turning sour, skanky, and full of fear, not to mention the occasional corruption scandals.