Cummins reviews

The most nonproductive work environment ever! Union, union, union...they expected engineers (especially those right out of school) to be able to tell technicians (union) how to run equipment which the engineers weren't allowed to touch or ever operate. Engineers were expected to get work finished and had to report to upper management on progress, however certain union people (not all of them) would put off their required work and there was nothing the engineer could do (but look bad). For example, it could easily take a month to get the machine shop to drill a simple hole. It wouldn't be fair to say all union employees are bad (there were some there who could run circles around the engineers), though I feel I worked with some of the worst of them here. This is a bad first engineering job if you are right out of school, and if you are used to a hands-on position, don't come to cummins. Also, cummins is pretty much the only game in town, so when they have their "cleaning house" lay-offs (rumored every 5-6 years), make sure you don't own a house in columbus, especially in today's market. If you're a single guy, Columbus is devoid of any attractive educated single women (I guess most women just don't dig Diesel engines!). You will see many a single lonely old man shopping at the grocery store wearing a cummins uniform.

You can't trust anyone specially now since the managers have abused the business so badly. The senior management team is to blame for two primary reasons, culture of arrogance which translates to we have an engineered in product that solves emissions issues mandated by the government (never mind the customer doesn't want it and we gouge them on the price huge margins and we send them poor quality) and no performance based promoting. The company is obsessed with there image to the community ie diversity. They take this way to far promoting plant managers every two years as well as senior leadership. No manager ever has to or will be accountable for their decision. As s result minorities and women are pushed to fill top spots in the organization to a point. Everyone in the company talks about this and it is a major concern as well as a serious point of friction. Don't take my word for it just ask in your interview how many plant manager we have had and their experience and see if you can see a trend, do the same for our president of our division.