Cummins reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

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

70% 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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4.0
Jan 22, 2015
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Pros

Benefits are not bad. For some, working environment is relaxed. Depending on your boss, you can take it easy when you need to. Fairly generous about some perks. Tuition, language learning, some goods

Cons

Old style. Hierarchy is very important. Meeting a senior manager without telling your boss gets you in trouble. In may departments, the immediate boss will CYA - not back you up. Mistakes are not treated as learning. Instead, they will be brought up at performance appraisal time, By the way, the annual appraisal is a joke. I know one employee who has cut and past from a document at least 5 years old! In another case, it was done retroactively - in May of the following year, after the 'merit' increases were already done.

1.0
Jan 3, 2014

All show, no go

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The pay is reasonable, but not great - Midwestern tax rates and housing prices makes for a fairly low cost of living - There are currently few serious competitors in their core business

Cons

- Management always seems to be a work in progress. Lots of greenhorns and newbies that come and go like the seasons. - I don't remember seeing anyone in HR that appeared to be over 30, yet they stand as gatekeepers as to who gets hired or fired, and they claim to be able to arbitrate disputes among people with twice their age and experience, with predictable results. - Corporate sloganeering, bureaucracy and micromanagement is as bad as it gets. There is a new global poobah of diversity every other week, and there is an affinity group for every special interest under the sun. Your inbox will fill up with this pabulum in very short order if you don't constantly delete it. After a 10 hour work day and never really being free of the place, employees are expected to perform "community service," sort of like a teenager on probation for a petty crime. - Upper management haunts the place like Jacob Marley's ghost. They seldom come to our plane of existence, but it's just as well, because we never know what on earth they are talking about anyway. - Columbus, Indiana is purgatory. The town PR effort tries to portray it as vibrant and interesting, but in reality it is a backwards industrial town that is dull at best, and half of it is quite gritty and depressing. The courtesy of drivers and service workers is often appalling. If you ever walk or bicycle anywhere, you will be shocked to find that Columbus natives truly believe that the bigger vehicle always has the right of way. Check out the crime rates--the statistics aren't pretty.

1.0
Aug 14, 2012

TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!

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Pros

Ummmmm........decent pay and benefits. Good group of technicians.

Cons

Job safety analysis process is ridiculous. Management has a "customer is always right attitude " so you better hope you weren't the last one to touch that truck. Service supervisor is not knowledgeable of cummins engines (Henderson, CO) They hire to many technicians so there is never enough work to go around. Computers are always broken so for 12 techs only 1 or 2 computers work.

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