I've been hearing rumors from old colleagues that Cummins is looking to send over some of the work that was being done in the USA to India. Ever since the last mass layoff in the Fall of 2015 of hundreds of high performing, highly ranked employees, there has been internal discontent at headquarters and around the world. Most of the leadership was not replaced and all of the knowledge is gone. There is a significant amount of Green Card holders in IN to pull the weight though. This company needs a wake up call on how to treat employees. Instead of a continuing cycle of mass layoffs, why don't you suspend 401K matching, or announce a % wage cut across the board. Many excellent workers who put in a decade or more at Cummins have been thrown under the bus throughout the layoff cycles...including MANY high performing women too.
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Cummins hires tons of engineers when the going is good, and lets go tons of engineers when the market is down. This is very typical of an American company.
In Europe and Japan, companies try very hard to not lay anyone off, by taking aggressive cost-cutting measures - such as no bonuses for a year, no overtime pay, across the board pay-cuts. Consequently, employees have peace of mind, that there jobs will be safe. Cummins should attempt to learn from Honda/Toyota/Daimler how talent should be managed without RIFs.
Cummins Technical Center Indian in Pune is more advanced than the one in Columbus CTC. It shows one thing, that they are getting ready to move what we do in CTC to CTCI but when you ask. Someone told me that CTC in Columbus may be used for work in the battery systems for engines but I don't know. But you and I both know that there is no reason to have two fully staffed and running technical centers essentially doing the same thing. You don't need two R&D centers doing the same thing.
Cummins is just not a good company to work for. Under Linebarger, they have made many bad decisions and let go hundreds of excellent people. I do not recommend working here at all. Columbus, IN is not a good place to live either and that is where the majority of positions are.
You all will be RIF’ed in the end so work while u make plans to leave. Its CMI’s problem, and they know what they are doing.
CTC is built in India and what takes us 12 years takes them only 2 years over there. This was told to us by Betsy Sprat in front of hundreds of employees, right after a company cookout mind u.
Their reputation is now getting known and they are already having issues keeping American workers, or they just dont want to wrk here cause of what they have herd or know.
It's because they value their cheap (and underskilled) Indian technical workforce over skilled domestic engineers. Before I got laid off, I was dinged because of the poor performance of the engineers in India that I inherited with the job, had no technical understanding of what they were doing, yet I was somehow responsible for their failure to perform. Cummins is killing itself.
How would he be able to help here?
It's because they value their cheap (and underskilled) Indian technical workforce over skilled domestic engineers. Before I got laid off, I was dinged because of the poor performance of the engineers in India that I inherited with the job, had no technical understanding of what they were doing, yet I was somehow responsible for their failure to perform. Cummins is killing itself.