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Great company, turning into a sinking ship

Building Automation Specialist I
Former Employee
Worked at Siemens for 2 years
October 31, 2021
Fredericksburg, Virginia
3.0
Negative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Good pay. No micromanagement. Workload always there. Work van with EZ-Pass. Challenging work. Resume booster.

Cons

Poor accountability all the way up the chain.

Upper management probably thinks any old monkey could do this.

Poor hiring choices; 10% carry the load.

No onboarding process for new techs, but don't worry, you will get your Yammer emails along with every other corporate fluff position's email about nothing.

Digital Knowledge Base? What's that?

Vaccine mandate.

Advice to Management

Do your job and stop covering for each other.

If you focus on the work, the money will always be there.

Get rid of the people who aren't self-sufficient after a year, instead of jumping them from job site to job site, screwing everything up.

Stop hiring project managers from within to give people a pay bump; it's not effective.

Centralize a technical knowledge base of manuals that is intelligently searchable.

Service tickets and projects should be searchable by the tech. Don't you think it's important to know what happened last and who might have info?

I could go on, but it's not my job to tell you how to do yours. Good luck. Cheers mate.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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