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Trimble Navigation
3.2 of 5 75 reviews
www.trimble.com Sunnyvale, CA 5000+ Employees

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Updated Jun 8, 2013

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75% Approve of the CEO

Trimble Navigation President, CEO, and Director Steven W. Berglund

Steven W. Berglund

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61% of employees recommend this company to a friend
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Nice place to work

Engineer (Former Employee)
Sunnyvale, CA

I worked at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than 7 years

ProsHave been working in Trimble for 5 years as an engineer, like the company because the following reasons:

Very friendly work environment,
cutting edge technology.
Good work/life balance.

Very happy experience.

ConsLooks like the company does not care too much engineers. This seems happen to a lot large companies lead by professional business people instead of technology guy in startup.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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BAD management

Product Manager (Current Employee)
Denver, CO

I have been working at Trimble Navigation part-time for more than 10 years

ProsGreat benefits
Easy open work environment
Employee accountability.

ConsDoes not pay market rates
Management inept-people hired not qualified
Upper management can't relate to lower level employees
Management doen't care about employees
Many managers are loose cannons-and nothing is done to reign them in.

Advice to Senior ManagementTry treating employees with more respect. Give us credit for our knowledge. Stop being accusatory before you know the facts. Try being reasonable. with how things are currently-you are driving good people away.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Anonymous Employee (Former Employee)
Sunnyvale, CA

I worked at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than 10 years

ProsGrowing company that makes sound decisions.
Interesting products.
Good people.
Raising stock price.
Promote from within.

ConsMostly does incremental product development. Very little further out research.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Very rapidly declining morale consider employment elsewhere.

Anonymous Employee (Current Employee)
Dayton, OH

I have been working at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than 10 years

ProsContinues to grow even with a bad ecomony. Friendly and smart people to work around. Laid back if you can get into the right job..

ConsCompany profits continue to increase while the employees benfits decrease. Management walks around with chip on their shoulder, and is very closed minded to employees needs.

Advice to Senior ManagementStand up for the people that break their backs for this company. Listen to employees ideals and concerns.

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Successful business with consistent growth, provides many opportunities for career advancement

Engineer (Current Employee)
Dayton, OH

I have been working at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than 10 years

ProsMany small business units, many development centers around the world, and international relocation opportunities.
Very interesting product line, and opportunities to be involved in cutting edge technology.
Trimble develops very good engineering platforms.

ConsPoor market strategies, not very customer focussed, generally follow the "make it and they will come" philosophy. Extremely focussed on quarterly numbers, which drives a lot of very near sighted decision making through out the business.
Very secretive about remuneration policy, salary grades, and performance incentive plans. Remuneration may not reflect changing job duties and responsibility, nor market rates.
Office conditions in some sites are poor.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Solid company to work for...

Mechanical Engineer (Current Employee)
Sunnyvale, CA

I have been working at Trimble Navigation full-time

ProsTrimble is an established company with a lot of experienced veterans on the Team. The culture is professional and relatively mellow. The managers are reasonable, approachable, and very competent. Co-workers are smart, friendly, and collaborative. Work-life balance is good.

ConsI don't have many negative things to say, but there are some inefficiencies in the organization which can be frustrating to navigate, and difficult to avoid.

Advice to Senior ManagementI would like a more active and encouraging approach to career development, with a clearer path to advancement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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A good place to work

Applications Engineer (Current Employee)
Sunnyvale, CA

I have been working at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than a year

ProsNon stressful
Good management
Good benefits
Good compensation

ConsNo work culture i.e. no socials

Advice to Senior ManagementIncrease social activities to better employee relations. A few social meets every year always increases moral and reduces work related stress.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Overall Enjoyable

Anonymous Employee (Former Employee)
Sunnyvale, CA

I worked at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than 10 years

ProsWell focused company. Limited internal politics. During the tough economic times of the 'Great Recession' unlike many employers Trimble did not use wide spread reduction of force as the only or prime way to deal with controlling cost. While there were many lay offs it was nearly as bad as at most companies. The workforce is very knowledgeable and generally works well together.

ConsSome post Trimble Spectra Physics power plays.

Advice to Senior ManagementMore balanced control between the Sunnyvale, Dayton, and Westminster locations.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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A good environment to work with

Network Engineer (Current Employee)
Tempe, AZ

I have been working at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than a year

ProsA challenge environment to work with, a place where you can learn and improve your technical skills.

ConsThere are so many departments that sometime you need to know key person of each teams to help you get the jobs done easier.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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A family friendly company

Firmware Engineer (Current Employee)
Sunnyvale, CA

I have been working at Trimble Navigation full-time for more than a year

Prosstable, self-govern, free environment, nice people, lots of opportunities to learn cross functional fields, great places to start career.

Consthe working pace is a bit slow compare to other companies in the industry, the product development cycles are king of long.

Advice to Senior ManagementBe more efficient in project management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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