Bose Reviews

Pros

This is an organization full of people with great values who really care about what they do and how the products the organization delivers can make a difference in peoples lives. Strong values-based culture. Excellent learning and development opportunities. Far from a perfect organization, yet leadership owns up to opportunities escalated from employees and do their best to fix issues.

Pros

All the toys you'd want to use in getting the best results. Great environment and easy access to smart people who are willing to help you with difficult problems.

Advice to Management

Give better benefits to those who get patents.

Pros

Invested in the workforce, good work life balance, increasingly open to change and new directions

Pros

Bose as a company takes great care of their employees in terms of pay as well as benefits. They are the leading company in the consumer audio industry and clearly out perform their competitors. However, the corporate level management is often disconnected and unaware of what happens in stores, different stores operate under different understandings of policies as well as new changes roll out incredible slow. I love working for Bose but it personally is a company in which you are hard pressed to move upward without being lucky

Good pay
Small store staff
Good discount on product
Education assistance

Advice to Management

Invest in hiring good people, including upper management and district managers. Often those people are hired based on their experience and less on their work ethic. This causes things to go unnoticed down the line

Pros

Great benefits, company seems to keep up with the times.

Pros

challenging problems, smart helpful colleagues, flexible hours

Advice to Management

Stop pushing the open office. None of us like it and it doesnt even foster more interaction. Stop behaving like a publicly traded company.

Pros

Company cares about employees. Benefits, pension, and other nice benefits.
Brand, Products, and People generally fun and top notch.
Good sized company, can move around and do many roles over years.

Pros

Really thinks about the customer and the employee. Same commitment to both.

Advice to Management

Keep driving toward the future.

Pros

Good benefits, and fair pay.

Advice to Management

Hire within, promote growth and employee development, dont default to trusting every employee veteran.

Pros

Work life balance is the best you're going to find anywhere--they don't kill you with work like an Amazon or a Netflix.

The products and technologies you get to work on are always interesting and can make for good research.

The people you get to work and interact with on the day are day are talented, smart and know what they're doing for the most part.

A rare private company that doesn't have to respond to the whims of the marketplace. This can make for interesting long-term explorations and bets.

Advice to Management

Really rethink how you recruit and prepare new managers in the future. Clean up your act with internal/external communications--that will avoid anxious times.