Unfortunately, I did not choose to work at Siemens- Siemens acquired the company I worked for. Since the acquisition, I’ve found the overall environment incredibly difficult. There is very little genuine collaboration, and many interactions feel unnecessarily abrasive or outright rude. The overall energy often feels adversarial rather than like people are working toward the same goals.
The organizational silos seem to reinforce a culture of protecting individual realms instead of collaborating across teams.
This has been the most frustrating company environment I’ve experienced, and I've worked at multiple big tech companies. It is not an organization I would personally consider a 'best place to work'.
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Worked for Healthineers for nearly 23 years before they kicked me out the door due to agism. Blamed Covid, but as previously stated, there is definitely a "protected class" of employees within each specialty that stay no matter how poorly they perform, and they know it. However, I wasn't on the privileged team, and I was getting expensive. How they released several of us was something out of terrible movie. We're letting people go. However, we will be hiring a few back. SO...go to the HR website, apply to your current job. Submit a resume! If you "meet the qualifications", you will then sit for an interview with three managers. You are expected to present a PP presentation, minimum ten slides, on how you can contribute to the company. This is after 20 years! Gets better. IF you are hired back, it will be at 70% of your current salary, AND you get to cover more territory! I couldn't make this stuff up!! What a kick in the groin. Such an incredibly cruel and disrespectful way to end someone's career. So, if you are interested in being a Healthineer, get ready.
@OP Let me guess, you are coming from Altair? Yeah the culture in Siemens is pathetic, especially at the FT, DI, SI levels. The lack of organization makes people to compete against each other to show that they exist. As you say, the whole energy is going into the internal fight for survive instead of building together a product for customers. Not even mentioning that with the international spread, even within the same group, represented countries are fighting against each other. You could even draw a matrix of who is fighting who in vertical and horizontal directions....
You've figured it out quicker than most! Welcome to the crapshow. Tickets are free, but popcorn is gonna cost ya.