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Challenging times ahead

Project Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Siemens for less than 1 year
November 4, 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Big company with lots of divisions. If you can figure out how to navigate it, it offers lots of opportunities.

Great benefits.

Fantastic health care.

Many of the policies are not well defined, so one can use them to their advantage if he/she so desires.

Almost never fire people unless something is discovered in their past during background checks. Otherwise, stable employment.

The power industry is also forecast to grow over the next few years, so the industry as a whole is stable. Good job security.

Reasonable vacation and liberal with sick time (again, this plays into the lack of formal policies).

Good resume builder.

Cons

Big company. Overloaded structure and lack of flexibility to quickly respond. Not a good use of corporate strategies or sharing of interdepartmental successes.

Advice to Management

Listen to employees more. Look at other divisions for guidance.

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