Very different company, watch your back. Keep quiet about anything personal as long as possible. - Engineer Cummins Employee Review

2.0
Jul 31, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big company with product required to meet government emissions requirements. Competitors have to buy Cummins after treatment to comply with gov regulations. They are always hiring (big clue here). Solid company.

Cons

Passive aggressive HR. Union workers can not be managed, they run the place. Exempt employees are easy to replace, poor performance by union employees will result in nothing happening to the union guys and the boss getting fired. 2 year rotation. After 2 years, one is on borrowed time. They require people to find a new position to rotate to. And for a really technical job, 2 years is not really long enough to learn everything. So about the time you get comfy, time to go. Cummins has a political agenda, you better be on board. Very political environment. They say they make decisions based on data...not true. Better make friends with the bosses. Six sigma projects are required at some levels, so they do many unnecessary phony baloney projects. Ok for a first job, experienced people will be shocked.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Recommend
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Pros

You get paid for doing OT on weekends at the plant I work at now If you are in a shift that has less staffing you might earn more money on weekends as you will not have anyone to rotate with or less people to rotate with I am happy to have a manager who understands I have a lot of work pressure

Cons

If you are in a shift that has less staffing you will have a lot of work to do. For me the con is lots of work pressure in the shift I work. I think I do the work of atleast 2 people and sometimes even more. First shift will have people to rotate on weekends. Unfortunately 2nd shift doesn't have people to rotate with. We end up working every weekend but have same number of vacation days. People in 2nd can get there vacation days used up before other shifts. But still I would say its a good company considering I work in a manufacturing facility.

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