Philips reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(10,503 total reviews)
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Roy Jakobs

73% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Philips has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,503 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Philips employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.7 stars).

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11K reviews
1.0
Oct 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Once upon a time this was an awesome company to work for. And I was proud of being part of Philips. I worked for the company many years. I was very good at my job and had a wonderful relationship with the clients. But its all gone downhill with upper managements erratic and constantly contradictory decisions. The company has good benefits. That's about it.

Cons

- Moving jobs to Bangalore and dissolving all North American positions in the Healthcare sector. They believe with the ability to have less labor costs they will still have great support. - Have no respect for clients and do not intend to tell them that support will be centralized in Bangalore. One day they will call in and there will only be Indian techs answering. - Letting good engineers go and replacing with engineers who don't even know basic Windows environment. -They change directors and management like they change their underwear. - Have NO idea how to truly run engineering support models - Rather pay for consultants than actually check their own emplyees resume and see there are former consultant and engineers with more knowledge than any consultant they would be able to hire - No care for employees work life balance. The One Philips motto is just that. Talk. All the public press about the company being employee centric is not true. And even though they say there is no retaliation for the ethics line, there is They have dissolved so many teams and offices to move the work to India, they will soon see it will be a train wreck. - Just like GE, who thought moving all their support to India was the best thing ever, but now they've moved it all back. Spending even more money because they thought they were going to save money by not paying employees so much.

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Philips Response
9y
We really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review as we are always open to feedback, but are surprised to hear your statements about our company. We recognize the fact that we are on a transformation journey and we do not get things right the first time every time, but believe we are clear and honest about our goals. We wish you nothing but the best of luck in your career.
3.0
Aug 18, 2016

Philips

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent, well communicated benefits if full-time, although health for a head of household (spouse, children) is increasing. Great work / life balance Great ability for talented workers to move laterally

Cons

Huge conglomerations of global plants, locations, acquisitions, etc that are not well integrated (especially at a core IT systems level), so very confusing to work in for newcomers Moving up in the company is very challenging

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Philips Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time the write a review about your work experience as a Business Systems Analyst so far. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for working for Philips for the past three years and the years to come! We're happy to hear from you're pleased with your work-life balance and the benefits. We'll take your feedback on board, as we're definitely are open for improvements on the IT systems level. If you're ambitious and you would like to move to a higher position, we'd like to advise you to talk to your Manager or your HR representative. Thank you for your contribution to our company so far!
2.0
Aug 12, 2016

Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some smart people in the company

Cons

Too much change in management

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Philips Response
9y
Thank you for the feedback. It is unfortunate to hear that you were not positive about certain aspects whilst you worked with us. We are a very fast changing global company, active in a fast-paced market, flexibility therefore is very important to us. We understand that certain transformations within the company influence other parts as well. We do hope to create a flexible working environment by offering a lot of training through our Philips University. We would like to wish you the best with your future endeavors.
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