Pros

My internship with Timken was a very good experience and I would definitely recommend it to other engineering students. The pay was was great and anything over 40 hours was time and a half overtime. Great people and an all around good place to work.

Cons

Getting management to make decisions can be very difficult. This can be frustrating when projects build up because implementation is so slow.

Advice to Senior Management

Some projects often had overunning scope which can make it very hard to to actually ever finish anything or really know what the desired final results are.

Pros

The pay was very competitive.

Cons

It seemed like everyone wanted to be better than everyone else. People weren't likely to get help with something because they wanted to get all the credit. Once, someone even took my project idea and passed it off as their own. To the company's credit, this person is no longer working there. However, the company was not reasonable with staff member's responsibilities outside of work.

Advice to Senior Management

Get more in touch with the "worker bees." Some of the managers should not be in the positions that they're in because there are regular employees who are more knowledgeable about certain subjects.

Pros

Leader in the industry
Family oriented environment
Work/Life Balance

Overall, it was a good experience. The company does a good job communicating with employees.

Cons

Slow moving organization
Politics plays a fairly large role in progression

The culture is "old school" in a sense that focus is on work harder and not necessarily smarter. There is a nostalgia for the old way of doing things.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow individuals to take more risks in the work environment. Keep up the good work on providing ongoing employee feedback throughout the year.

Pros

- Good atmosphere
- Open door Policy
- Fair annaual review
- Defined career path if opportuinity exist
- scope to work across world

Cons

- too unprofessional
- employees are some times very lazy
- no focussed process approach
- results are achieved some how
- no idea of future

Advice to Senior Management

nothing as such.

Pros

pay and benefits and it is close to home,the people are great to work with they make work more enjoyable.

Cons

poor management, they are not listening to the employees when they make suggestion on better ways to improve the way the do their jobs.they only want to make things look good on paper and not fix the real problems.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the employees,they know what they are talking about when it comes to doing there job.

Pros

A recognized name in the manufacturing industry with a past track record of innovative ideas in the bearings industry. It has survived 100+ years and will continue to survive even during this global economic downturn. The Canton, Ohio Global Headquarters is located in very low cost of living area.

Cons

This is a "good ol' boy" manufacturing company full of double standards. Beware of the "fair haired" employees that management caters to. Unless you know someone who knows someone or have existing relatives working there - there's little advancement opportunity so expect to stay in the position you are hired for a very long time. Timken does not offer Cost of Living Adjustments and currently there is no matching 401K contributions by the company.

New employee orientation is poor, be prepared to go on an "Easter Egg Hunt" to find information about your benefits. Your manager probably won't even be clear on it, so don't rely on them. Expect to be treated with suspicion by existing employees, the survivors of mass layoffs that are still happening in the company and to get dumped in projects where there are no resources or management backing - but you will be expected to complete.

Do not expect training. Timken has never been keen on paying for training. Any training you need, you'll need to do that out of pocket on your own.

The Timken work ethic is this: work over 40 hours every week, through your lunch, and be prepared to work weekends and change personal family plans with no notice ... all without compensation. Timken doesn't promote or encourage telecommuting.

This company is a manufacturing company and is concerned only with shareholder earnings and the bottom line. It's not a family friendly place and couldn't care less. Do not expect recognition for your work, but be prepared to find out that promotions and raises are based on who is friends with who and not based your work. You may work 40+ hours a week, save the company thousands of dollars ... but don't be surprised that the guy who sleeps in his cube, comes in late, slips out early, and calls in sick all the time will get a raise when you don't because he's friends with your Gneeral Manager. Timken is full of these type of people.

Advice to Senior Management

Review your employees on their work performance. Please keep in mind many employees do have families and a life outside of Timken. Just because an employee is salaried, does not mean you can work them over 40 hours a week without compensation. Do not reprimand during annual reviews them for not knowing things when you will not train them. And stop rewarding mediocre performance - replace the dead wood that does not and will not work.

Pros

Recognized Heavy Industrial Manufacturer, Product is used almost everywhere. Located in a very low cost of living area. Offices recently updated with better lighting and work areas.

Cons

No job security, little advancement or training opportunity, no matching 401K contributions. New employee orientation just doesn't exist, you're dropped into a project or on a team and expected to have solutions immediately without having seen systems or met people. New employees are met with suspicion by existing employees who survived several recent massive layoffs. Timken expects you to work above and beyond 40 hours and weekends without compensation, currently all employees are to work one furlough day (no pay at all) each month. Timken has not adapted to telecommuting and does not promote/encourage it.

Advice to Senior Management

You need a more open door management style - current management is more interested in own personal survival and gains than that of the company. Better communication - which is a problem throughout the company - no one knows what is happening. Reinstate the 401K matching contribution. Allow for training. And do not make working 48+ hours a week mandatory when you only pay for 40 hours.

Pros

stable company
not too automotive oriented
good benifits
good time off
manufacturing facilities all over
willing to make decisions to survive

Cons

only seems to be concerned with one product and that is tapered roller bearings. If you do not support that product line, there is a good chance your product line will be eliminated.

Advice to Senior Management

please stop keeping people in the dark with what is going on. People need to be aware of possible layoffs. The rumore mill gets old fast. Not enough communication at the plant level.

Pros

great salary and friendly coworkers

Cons

lack of respect, terribly outdated senior management, not enough women in sr management, don't listen to their employees, lack of consistency in treatment of individuals

Advice to Senior Management

hire someone who thinks differently than you do and actually listen to them.

Pros

Excellent pay, benefits and good co-workers.

Cons

Incompetent Arizona management. Constant turn over and loss of amazing talent. Working for Timken was nothing less than working for almost a dot com start-up.

Advice to Senior Management

Get act together, workforce is low morale.