Cummins reviews

Forced rating and ranking process is full of problems. You either have to kiss managers' butts or else you are not "perceived" to be a good performer. The process is more about how you are perceived by management rather than the actual work you are doing. You could be a great performer and produce high quality work, but if the management team does not perceive you to be doing this work, you will be ranked low. The forced ranking pits everyone against each other and makes for a hostile environment. If managers do not like you, it is impossible to get a good ranking. Hiring and firing of employees seems to be much too cyclical for such a "well governed" company. In just three years, there ahs been a large hriing blitz, two mass layoffs, and now, another large hiring blitz.

For an ambitious engineer with some experience, the moderate work load and relatively simple project work can get very mundane and discouraging. Base salary is very low compared to similar positions in the industry. External professional hires always always earn a higher salary than the home grown talent. Pay increases and grade changes are only a matter of time. You cannot jump jobs and hope to earn a significant payraise. In rare instances, they offer a tiny equity increase after hard negotiations. Cummins follows a rack and stack system where roughly bottom 5% of workforce gets seperated every year. Few of the older managers at Cummins use this to their own advantage to weed out the engineers they dont get along with regardless of how productive those engineers are. Since they have a single product, the company does not offer diverse job types in engineering. If you have a passion for diesel engines, you may like the positions they offer. Common jobs are, Development engineer (test plan and validation), Design Engineer (Pro/E packaging work), Performance Engineering (interesting work) and Controls Engineering. Besides, Cummins is infamous for layoffs.