Siemens

There is plenty of work in the existing customer base and lots of open positions. The compensation and benefits are decent if you are qualified. The company provides employees with many training opportunities. The underlying building technologies are generally good. Most employees appear to stay for a length of time. Senior management delivers a consistent and positive message to foster growth.

Local branch management does not appear to embrace the new way of working that Senior Management is providing. Since most of the local managers have significant tenure in the organizations that have become part of Siemens, they are very reluctant to modernize their work habits and appear stuck in their old ways.

When researching the company before applying, one gets a sense of forward thinking, new ways of working, and the next step in terms of building technologies. However, once employed at the local level, all sense of positive movement into the future is stymied.

Most personnel, from employees to supervisors and managers, do not appear content with their work. Negativity at the local manager level is directly passed down to employees.

Senior Management should ensure that local branches are embracing the new initiatives and the new way of working. Employees need to understand that what they do for the company on a day-to-day basis is in everyone's best interest, even the environment's.

The local managers appear to believe that they are Senior Managers and do not care how the local employees get their jobs done, only that they get the jobs done. One thing that the local managers should keep in mind is that "carrots and sticks don't work!"