Cummins reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(7,028 total reviews)
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84% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Cummins has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,028 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cummins employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Aug 14, 2013

Worst place I have ever worked

Anonymous employee
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Pros

With all due respect, I cannot think of any

Cons

Use of H1B Visas suppressed wages and limited opportunities significantly (perhaps almost totally) Six sigma forced to be used in ways it did not apply or were beneficial to the company Treatment of employees was abysmal Facilities were unclean and dismal, which should change with the new building The "Jack Welsh" rating and performance system used to grade employees and fire employees was based on politics, and was a joke because the management team was forced to identify 10% of the workforce each year that had performance problems regardless of how the employees were actually performing. Worse yet, the program was abusive. It was called "take your turn in the barrel" and had nothing to do with performance. At some point, each employee was given a rating of "3" and was forced to go through a meaningless performance improvement system. Although the reason for getting a "3" was meaningless and baseless, the consequences were dire and many times included losing your job - all because your manager was not as good at defending you in the yearly management review meeting as someone else's as they were trying to come up with the "mandatory" ten percent of employees who were "poor" performers.

1.0
Sep 8, 2012
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Pros

Unfortunately, not too many pros to list here. I worked here for about 2 years-I left the company about 4 years ago. I had joined Cummins with great expectations that I was joining a world class company, but unfortunately it was a nightmarish experience.

Cons

1) Tons of politics. The employees who are able to schmooze and socialize with the managers/team leads are the only ones who can survive. In fact, even the HR directly tells employees that try to socialize with the management. Why should the employees have to do that. As long as they are doing a good job, shouldn't that be enough? No, it's not, at this place 2) As an extension to point 1, people with no experience, qualification and background were appointed at positions like team leads, managers, etc. It was ridiculous. To give some examples, an engineer who had obtained their bachelor's degree 2 years ago was a team lead. A guy who was working as a bike salesman 3 years ago was now a chief engineer and practically running the place. The result was the place was a total mess and it was a torture to work there. It was like a 'mom and pop shop' that employs hourly teenage workers. It was nowhere close to a multi-billion dollar that Cummins is. 3) One of the "Operating Principles"-as they call it-was 'diversity', but it was not followed at all. I am sorry to say that there was open racism at this place. That clearly explains point 1 and more clearly 'point 2' 4) It was just horrible to work here because of the above reasons. It was 4 years ago though. Things might be a bit different now, but if the same people/amangement are working, don't expect anything different. They had a committee called "Great Place To Work (GPTW)". The purpose of this committee was to make the work environment great for employees. Unfortunately, this committee failed miserably and it couldn't do anything towards their purpose. The HR was pathetic too-they are totally impotent in making things easier for the employees. The whole responsibility of running the place went into the hands of totally wrong people, who were completely mis-using their power to do so.

3.0
Nov 26, 2016
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Pros

I worked for 13 years. The focus on Respect and Diversity is great as well as soft skills leadership skills

Cons

In the last 5 years that company became very bureaucratic . Also, quite concerned with how easy is for the CEO to fire people despite our financial strength. The CEO was just focus on short term shareholders expectations rather than long term . Several people left due to this lack of loyalty. Finally , concerned about our long term sustainability; Cummins products are doomed to be obsoleted by other technologies and the company is just waking up to this very simple fact. our competitive position is terrible ; we compete with most of our customers. Also based on a small town in Indiana that does not offer much opportunities for your family

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