Siemens

Siemens failed at developing people managers.

They simply believed promoting veterans to manager was acceptable just because they knew the technology. Unfortunately, those individuals negatively impacted my life.

He was always yelling at people who did not belong to his country. His intention was to make non-Brazilians leave his team.

The worst part is his Colombian manager, who claimed to be a director and another Siemens veteran. He didn't know how to behave in a meeting with a third person.

He lost his temper and didn't like non-Latin Americans on his team.

At the end, I decided this was not the place I should be.

Note: I am an Indian with 45 years of experience at GE across global locations.

Nothing, I would think of.

I don’t think I can give advice to a 175-year-old company. But my only advice to their management, especially to SI USA, is to listen to their bottom-level employees. I was with Siemens for more than 6 years, and I didn’t know who my HR was and never got a chance to have a direct conversation with my N+1 manager. Other companies do this very often to understand what’s going on.