Siemens reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(11,652 total reviews)
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Roland Busch

85% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Siemens has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 11,652 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Siemens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Mar 30, 2026

Overview

Recommend
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Pros

Well known and established company

Cons

Unorganized internal structure considering its size

4.0
Mar 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Siemens is genuinely one of the better large enterprises to work for in tech infrastructure. The compensation and benefits package is competitive — strong base, solid bonus structure, and benefits that hold up against the broader market. You won't feel underpaid relative to your industry peers. The culture leans collaborative and there's a real respect for technical depth. Engineers who want to go deep rather than broad are valued, and cross-functional teams generally operate with a reasonable level of trust. The company's size means you're exposed to genuinely complex, large-scale problems — the kind of work that's hard to find outside of enterprises of this caliber. On the tooling and tech stack front, it's better than you might expect from a company this size and age. There's meaningful investment in modernizing infrastructure — cloud adoption, automation, and DevOps practices are taken seriously in the right pockets of the org. The right teams have real autonomy to drive that evolution. Remote and hybrid flexibility is a genuine strength. The shift to distributed work has been embraced rather than fought, and there's trust extended to senior staff to manage their own time and presence. That's not nothing at a 300,000-person company.

Cons

The organizational complexity is real. Decision-making can be slow, and navigating cross-divisional dependencies takes patience. If you're used to moving fast, expect to recalibrate. Bureaucracy isn't malicious — it's structural — but it's there. Culture is inconsistent across divisions. What feels like a progressive, high-trust environment in one business unit can feel rigid and siloed in another. Your experience will be shaped heavily by your direct leadership chain. Tooling modernization, while genuine in some areas, is uneven across the estate. Legacy systems and tech debt coexist with modern stacks, and managing that tension is a recurring theme.

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