Underpaid, Overworked, Lack of Strong Leadership and Innovative Drive
Pros
- Young employee group, excited to work and learn and contribute - People are friendly and easy to get along with - Work can be rewarding every now and then if you're given an opportunity to take on a worthy engineering challenge - Company is big on community involvement and lets you use work hours to get involved in community projects
Cons
- Facility office equipment (desks, walls, cubicles, chairs, work layout, etc.) all outdated - Organization struggles to keep up maintaining the building (takes forever to get something replaced or fixed) - Company tries to be big on health but then cuts funding to equipment/foods towards their own initiative (ex: only offer a 2 walking treadmills; won't cover costs of a standing desk) - Organization lacks strong, visionary and innovative leadership/management. Management sets yearly goals that it never follows and restructures the organization very few years but doesn't think through how the restructuring will work which leads to a lot of inefficiencies and confusion - If you're an engineer who's looking to do engineering work here, forget about it. Most your time will be spent figuring out how Cummins processes work and how to follow them only to find out that your own leadership doesn't know them - New product develop is a mess and is run under management and leadership with little to no experience on how to run and manage a new program (be prepared for a lot of political warfare and middle management) - Company does a poor job of compensating individuals based on their contribution value. You'll be better off trying to please the right people to make compensation headway here than focusing on making or saving the company some dough. - Career advancement is non-existent and even if you do find a way to climb the corporate latter a rung or two, don't expect your salary grade bumps to follow in parallel (company likes to wait until you've been in the role several years before they increase your pay) - Expect a lot of chaos and confusion and variability in your day to day work (one day you'll think you have it figured out only to find out you'll need to do it a different way the next day) - Company puts a lot of emphasis on 6S which has good intentions but is poorly and wrongly enforced most times which leads to doing projects that never end up having any execute value or use (its more about the idea of doing a 6S project than it actually having a valuable impact) - Company loves to talk about the importance of work/life balance but doesn't want to hear you complain about it. - Teams are all over the country and globe making it hard to get anything done - a simple task that should take no more than 1-2 days turns into months of back and forth coordinating
