Cummins reviews

Cummins is able to get around its own diversity policies through use of contract employees who work for employers without full protection in place. It may not be common, but in my short tenure, there were several cases of managers starting their own businesses on company time with company resources. Those businesses then received preference during the bidding process (if there even was one). They use the Rating and Ranking System developed by Jack Welch of GE, which GE had abandoned years ago. The poorest performers are fired every few years. While this sounds somewhat reasonable, the system is weakened by the political process where managers' favorites are saved at the expense of sometimes talented individuals. This also creates considerable fear within the workforce, as well as a lack of cooperation and collaboration between employees. There are many people right out of college, but most of the 30- and 40- somethings are either gone, in stagnant protected positions, or are management. All in all, this company creates great financial results, but it would seem at the expense of its people.

Cons: Two layoffs in the past year. First was company-wide. Second was due to restructuring within Power Gen. Before new-hires were off limits. That's no longer true. Leadership keeps saying markets are down and rather than reduce leadership positions, they shift those around and layoff regular employees. Cummins focuses too much on diversity, they rather spend more money hiring H1-B than hire diversity within the country. Pay compensation is below market. For professionals, it's expected to answer email communication during off-hours and vacation because they give you a laptop during orientation. Most engineers there don't know what's needed for the electrical portion of generators. It got worse after the restructuring where most new management positions went to engineers with no generator experience. They focus too much on the engine side and manufacturing. Moving up into leadership positions on the technical side is difficult. The best way is to jump into the business side, like MBA or project management and somehow make it back into technical. Corruption exists. Make the right friends and a lot of the best opportunities open up to you. Morale the past year has been low. Leaders let anticipation build up for too long before layoffs. Many good employees have left the company, thus retention is low. They end up hiring recent college grads and don't train them well enough to make an impact early on.