Hilti Group reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,386 total reviews)
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Jahangir Doongaji

84% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Hilti Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,386 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hilti Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jan 28, 2020

Hilti in SG

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very well structured company in terms of processes and forward-looking mindset from our HQ. There is much to learn from the company and I must say that some colleagues are truly driven. Pretty ok work life balance, if you follow the lifestyle of your parachute-d colleagues.

Cons

The management team here stays in their ivory tower and very disconnected from their people, for many years now.. All the talks about employee development is a farce as you need to be a from thier global / local MA programme or assigned from another country. Most of the local staff in Hilti Far East are just supporting characters and pushed extremely hard, paid the least when compared to parachute-d staff. A very top heavy company, especially region office. Even within the region office, staff are disconnected except for 1 group who originates from the same place. This is a place to shout about your achievements without actually having to do much about it. You just have to be really good at marketing yourself to excel here. For most, it is a good place to learn and get out if you are not under any programme or the management's radar, which is an actual fact. Just look at the exodus of talents between 2016 and 2017.

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Hilti Group Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time and courage to write a review, we work hard to ensure a great working environment and feedback like this will ensure we improve moving forward. Whilst we are glad to hear that you liked the forward-looking mindset of the company, we are concerned about your perceptions about leadership and the opportunities for development. We are making changes to our people initiatives as a priority in 2020, focusing on people development for all. We take your comments seriously and will put them into action with our leadership team.
1.0
Sep 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary on time. You can earn good amount of incentives is you can sell. Market brand value is good.

Cons

Immense Pressure. Rational and partial bosses. If you get an area with not much business potential, your life in Hilti is screwed. Very high superiority complexes in the old employees, be it your team members or bosses or EMT's. In your first month of joining you will be made to feel that its the best company one can ever work in, but as the time passes by you will start to face reality. It used to be an MNC before, but now you can be very sure of working in a lala company.

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Hilti Group Response
6y
We appreciate your feedback on our company. While we observe that you are enthused by a few positive aspects working with us, we are also concerned about your perceptions about our work culture, as well as your opportunity to contribute, that have been less than up to your expectations. To understand the issue better, we would invite you to have a conversation with members of our HR team who will deal with your concerns in a confidential manner. We also would like to point out that as a company, we pride ourselves on our culture and regularly take feedback from our employees and deal with these very seriously. As you are currently working with the company, you would be aware of our GEOS Survey that has been just launched as well as the GM's communication on this, including follow up action workshops that we undertake to deal with issues raised. We Look forward to hearing from you and thank you once again for taking the time to provide feedback.
2.0
Jul 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

1. Perks includes medical, clinical, dentistry benefits. 2. Generous with the amount of annual leaves. 3. Bonus included. 4. Opportunity to travel per year to Europe or US.

Cons

1. This huge company is structured in a way that in order for career progression to happen, you will have to spend a great amount of time in irrelevant activities in order to be heard across the organization. Some teams created a metric to encourage its member to spend more time on its company social media talking about their contributions than to actually work. 2. Too many company processes that renders the organization unable to fully adopt agile methodologies. Employees painstakingly spent more time getting buy-ins than actually getting things to work. 3. Too much of hourly long US and European meetings every week at the expensive of personal time. 4. A company that tries to convert its in-house developers to Project Managers. Too many Project Managers. 5. Management has different management styles according to regions - Malaysia, America, Europe - where work ethics may not necessary be the Hilti way. 6. The work is not very interesting as you may be dealing with ancient software and processes.

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