TomTom Reviews

Pros

TomTom offers great opportunities to work with a diverse group of cultures and travel internationally. If you enjoy maps and geographic data, this is a fun place to work. It's great to work for a company that many people recognize that creates products your friends and family might use.

Cons

Management at TomTom seems to have difficulty prioritizing projects resulting in people being spread too thin and dependencies between projects causing delays and inefficiencies. Projects are often moved between teams for no apparent reason preventing any one team from developing expertise in an area.

The long term goal appears to be focused towards moving projects to low cost centers such as Lodz, Poland, and Pune, India. This does not bode well for the US office and perhaps even the Western European offices.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should do a better job of fostering effective communication between the global offices and provider better input on relative priorities of projects to prevent inefficiencies.

Pros

Autonomy, quality of employees at same level, plenty of opportunity to gain experience with various products. Co. is flexible in work arrangements. 401K match is strong.

Cons

Lack of consideration of employee feedback in operations by Senior Mgmt. A good company to gain experience but not a career opportunity.

Pros

The employees in the company are great people. The products are great.

Cons

constant changes & no career advancements.

Advice to Senior Management

stop changing & reorganizing the company as frequently as you do.

Pros

Multicultural enviroment, team leaders and suoervisor are young and in most cases cool peole.

Cons

Not easy to get a promotion but that varies from person to person. The company has a great name and potential. I hope it will last for long time in the maket.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay better your employee, improve infrastuctures, cut money waste with better comunication and engineering of infrastuctures.!

Pros

European style work space
2:30 pm end date on Fridays
Open work spaces
Open communication with upper management
Relaxed dress code

Cons

Lack of dialogue between IT/Engineering dept. and Marketing
Not enough time to finish projects
Misunderstanding of objectives and goals sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

Support the PR Department!! They do amazing work and are knowledgeable about the brand and new trends, as well as have great relationships with industry leaders

Pros

--The people in NH.
--The technology.
--Local management
--Comfortable office setting

Cons

--European lead and ignoring US input and expertise
--Fumbling through US Market. Lacks US strategy
--Continues to cut jobs and benefits.
--Zero job security

Advice to Senior Management

Please begin listening to US input; stop trying to market in US based on European mindset.
Focus more on content and service rather than device.

Pros

Work Life Balance is possible

Cons

Leadership changes very often
Company direction and strategy changes very often
Company management not tuned to changing realities of the market

Advice to Senior Management

Respect and treat your employees well. Also have a cohesive vision and then take the entire company along in that direction.

Pros

* While the turnaround of employees is rather high, there are still many very smart software developers over there. It think it is hard to find higher level of skills and knowledge somewhere else in Amsterdam and around.
* International and young staff, thus many opportunities to socialize after work.
* Agile methodology.

Cons

Regarding back-end (web site, etc.)
* While the company is rather young, there is already a lot of legacy code that deserves thorough rewrite.
* Stakeholders (internal customers) do not really know what they want. They change mind too often, direction is thus unclear.
* Work outsourced to two external companies. Difficult to manage, issues with communication, benefit is questionable.

Pros

informal organisation, young and international people, interesting product and opportunities to grow. nice location, fairly professional office, expanding internationally, etc

Cons

sometimes a lack of communication, especially to all levels in organisation, informal and youg, growing can result in somewhat unstructured situation

Pros

Very smart colleagues
Interesting products and projects
Relaxed work environment
Multicultural environment
Respect for personal time and attention to employee issues
Overtime optional, and compensated

Cons

Communication and information sharing problems
Political struggles between departments, not stopping to considering the overall company goal
Pressure during release stages of projects, with staff being asked to work overtime